Qatar Airways to launch flights to the Western Sydney International Airport next year

Qatar Airways will expand its services to Sydney with the launch of direct passenger flights to the Western Sydney International Airport (WSI) next year.

From December 15, 2027, Qatar Airways will operate three weekly flights between Doha Hamad Airport and WSI using Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday the outbound flight QR906 will depart at 0140H and arrive at 2345H. The return flight QR907 will depart the following day (Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday) at 1610H and arrive back at Doha at 2300H.

The new Doha-WSI service will complement Qatar Airways’ current daily flights to Sydney. Kingford Smith Airport The airline will offer flights to seven destinations in Australia, where it operates flights to Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, and Canberra.

In a statement, Qatar Airways Group Chief Executive Officer Hamad Al Khater highlighted the new route as the next chapter of the airline’s long-standing partnership with Australia saying: "With the airport operating around the clock, we will bring more international visitors to New South Wales, offer Australian travellers the premium Qatar Airways experience from a second Sydney gateway, and give exporters across the state a direct cargo route to customers in the Gulf and beyond."

Located around 50 kilometers from Sydney Airport and up to 60 kilometers from the Sydney CBD, the WSI is a 24-hour airport that will officially open on October 25, 2025. As WSI opens, the first routes to be served to/from the new Sydney-area airport are domestic routes to Melbourne, Gold Coast, and Brisbane to be operated by Qantas and its budget subsidiary Jetstar.

Qatar Airways will be the fourth foreign airline to commit to launch flights to WSI. Air New Zealand will be the first non-Australian airline to operate flights to WSI from Auckland starting October 26, followed by Singapore Airlines with its route from Singapore on November 23. Vietjet will launch a route to WSI from Ho Chi Minh City from January 2027, and Fiji Airways from Nadi in March 2027.

WSI Chief Executive Simon Hickey added: "What's more, with the addition of this premium carrier alongside WSI's existing airline partners, our customers will be able to enjoy access to more than 250 destinations around the globe within the first 14 months of the airport's launch, which is a strong start for Australia's first major greenfield international airport in more than fifty years.”

While regularly scheduled passenger flights to/from WSI starts October 25, cargo operations have been ongoing at the airport since late July.