Penrith > Phuket To Become Busiest Flight Path On Planet Earth As Western Sydney Airport Opens

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT

Nearly two hours have been shaved off the commute from Penrith to Phuket this week, with passengers no longer required to brave the traffic of the M7 or M4 just to board their flight.

This comes as Australia's newest airport is officially open for business after nearly seven years of construction and eight decades of planning, extremely corrupt land deals and several underworld murders.

But it was all worth it as of Sunday! As passengers boarded the first commercial flight from Western Sydney International Airport to the Gold Coast.

The first international flight departed today - it was obviously flying to Auckland.

And while the Gold Coast and Auckland will obviously be the destinations for a vast number of the flights departing WSI, there is one particular flight path that is about to break all kinds of records.

Aviation authorities around the world are preparing for the unprecedented activity across the Java Sea and Malacca Strait that will follow this historic milestone in New South Wales infrastructure.

Penrith to Phuket is tipped to become the busiest thoroughfare for international travel on Planet Earth, as the new Western Sydney airport provides locals with a direct line to the MMA gyms, tattoo parlours, cosmetic surgeons and red light districts of Thailand.

However, this floodgate has not opened just yet.

Diplomatic meetings are furiously taking place between leaders of both countries before any direct flights open up between Penrith and Phuket - with both Thai and Australian politicians weighing up the potentially catastrophic repercussions of connecting millions of cashed up tradies and influencers with the cheapest beer and whitest veneers in the southern hemisphere.

While the Thai authorities welcome the tourism boom, there is also grave concerns about the sheer scale of this sudden wave of neckless and heavily tattooed tourists that will land on their doorstep the moment they have a local airport servicing this exact flight path.

Australia also remains fearful that such easy access to the tropical streets and beaches of Phuket will drastically magnify the nation's already disastrous shortage of skilled construction workers.