Kingsford - Smith Airport or more commonly known as Sydney Airport is the busiest airport in Australia with 36 million passengers walking through its doors in 2010 and is the 28th busiest airport in the world.
As the surface was so flat the land it looked to Nigel Love, who was a wartime pilot seeking to build a aircraft manufacturing company in Australia and needed somewhere suitable for test flights.
The first flight took off from the land in 1919 and in 1921 the public airfield with the first flights taking off in 1924. By 1933 the first gravel runways were constructed and it was declared an aerodrome, which it remained until 1953 when it was renamed Sydney Kingsford-Smith Airport in honor of Charles Kingsford Smith who was a leading Australian aviator.
The runway was paved in 1959 and in the 1960. As new and more international aircraft was utilizing the airport, a new runway was constructed running north-south which was to become the longest runway in the southern hemisphere.
The two runway Sydney airport operated as it was was until the 1990s when a third runway was controversially constructed to take the pressure off the two existing runways.
Sydney Airport, the airport has three terminals to handle the different flights that come in and out of the airport.
Housing 30 gates it serves the long haul flights including 747 and Airbus A 380 aircraft flying routes to Singapore, London, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Dubai, and Auckland, among other places. The terminal underwent a $ 500 million redevelopment in 2010 increasing the terminal capacity.
Terminal Two, serves other airlines and regional air traffic. Airlines such as Qantaslink, Virgin Blue, JetStar, and Tiger Airways utilize this terminal.
Termianal 3 is more commonly known as the domestic terminal, serving flights all over Australia by Qantas and Qantaslink.
There are buses operated by Sydney Buses that connect to the Sydney suburbs and the airport is connected to the M1 and the M5 motorways which link the airport to the city and the suburbs.
