{"id":941523,"date":"2026-10-26T12:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/941523\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T12:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:36:14","slug":"holidaymaker-goes-viral-for-western-sydney-airport-blunder-im-meant-to-be-in-perth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/941523\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidaymaker goes viral for Western Sydney airport blunder: \u2018I\u2019m meant to be in Perth\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The opening of Western Sydney Airport is expected to revolutionise travel into and out of Australia\u2019s biggest city, which for the first time has a 24-hour international airport.<\/p>\n

But it is fair to say the first 24 hours of operation did not go smoothly for all flyers.<\/p>\n

One holidaymaker who disembarked an Air New Zealand flight from Auckland on Monday revealed he thought he had been travelling to Western Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got confused, I saw Western Sydney,\u201d he began in a TV interview that has since gone viral.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it was Western Australia, and I\u2019m meant to be in Perth, but look, it\u2019s still pretty fun, so we\u2019ll make the best of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realised by the time I got on the flight that that\u2019s not where it was going, but we\u2019ll figure it out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m on holiday, so it\u2019s not the worst thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"TheCamera IconThe passenger admitted he had \u2018gotten confused\u2019 and ended up in NSW instead of WA. Credit: 7NEWS & ABC<\/p>\n

The rather laid back traveller was not the only passenger caught out by the State\u2019s new $5.6 billion airport.<\/p>\n

Another passenger, Julie Lundmark, said she was unsure where she had landed after arriving on a internal Jetstar flight.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe landed here and looked out of the window and had no idea where we were,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

There are no direct flights between Perth and Western Sydney International, which had its first commercial flight land and depart on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Seven carriers have signed up to operate out of WSI, including Jetstar and Air New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The opening of Western Sydney Airport is expected to revolutionise travel into and out of Australia\u2019s biggest city,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,44,46,3792,45],"class_list":["post-941523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-news","tag-perth","tag-travel","tag-wa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}