Inside Sydney Airport

Season 1

Behind-the-scenes look at the team operating Sydney Airport, one of the Southern Hemisphere's busiest. With up to 180, 000 daily passengers, volatile weather, security issues and human factors challenge keeping 900 flights on schedule.

Where to Watch Inside Sydney Airport • Season 1

10 Episodes

Dawn To Curfew
E1
Dawn To CurfewThe staff feel the pressure as they have to process 900 plane movements around a noise curfew; duty manager George finds a suspicious package; rookie Mel deals with two medical emergencies less than an hour apart.
Lightning Strike and Water Hazmat
E2
Lightning Strike and Water HazmatA bolt of lightning strikes an incoming international flight, and the passengers get impatient waiting for engineers to assess the damage; a plane arrives with a potentially dangerous liquid leaking from its cargo.
Emergency Exercise
E3
Emergency ExerciseAn emergency training exercise is stopped by a real emergency, when an explosion goes off inside a passenger terminal.
Rain
E4
RainTorrential rain closes two runways as an incoming flight deals with an onboard medical emergency; a fire training drill turns into a real emergency.
VIPS
E5
VIPSSydney Airport is on high alert for the arrival of the Prime Minister of Singapore, and Duty Manager Mel's favourite pop star; security searches for a woman reported to have collapsed on the street.
Training
E6
TrainingIt's sniffer dog Warner's first day, and he has to deal with some nerves. Security test their screening team by trying to smuggle a fake bomb.
Interrupted Journeys
E7
Interrupted JourneysDuty manager George deals with security breaches, an air ambulance emergency, drugs being found in an unattended bag, and an irate passenger, all in one Friday.
Baggage
E8
BaggageSydney Airport's Baggage Manager Kevin is having a day from hell as he trouble-shoots a number of mechanical breakdowns that could bring operations to a standstill. Meanwhile, security screening discovers a passenger travelling with a gun and the Federal Police investigate a suspicious bag left at the terminal entrance.
Maintenance
E9
MaintenanceLooks at the never-ending maintenance work for the airport, including changing a wind sock, repairing a stuck airbridge, and putting out a potentially catastrophic fire.
Holiday Surge
E10
Holiday SurgeThe busy Christmas Season brings extra challenges with families escaping Sydney on vacation. But the airport is thrown into jeopardy of a shutdown with the discovery of an unidentified white powder on board an incoming flight. Speculation mounts about whether the powder is harmless, or the deadly terror weapon anthrax.