September 4, 2026 — 5:00am

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A high-tech air traffic control centre for Sydney’s new 24-hour airport is being kept shut for longer than expected despite cargo flights operating and only seven weeks before passenger flights start.

The closures of the control centre for the nation’s first major new airport in more than five decades have been imposed to free up staff to backfill rosters at Sydney’s Kingsford Smith Airport tower.

The shortage of air traffic controllers at Kingsford Smith is putting pressure on the fledgling operations at Western…

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