About this season
A behind-the-scenes look at the team that operate the Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport, one of the busiest airports in the Southern Hemisphere.
Episodes (10)
1. Dawn To Curfew
Aired 1 June 2023 • 49 min
The 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.
2. Lightning Strike and Water Hazmat
Aired 8 June 2023 • 47 min
A 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.
3. Emergency Exercise
Aired 15 June 2023 • 46 min
An emergency training exercise is stopped by a real emergency, when an explosion goes off inside a passenger terminal.
4. Rain
Aired 22 June 2023
Torrential rain closes two runways as an incoming flight deals with an onboard medical emergency; a fire training drill turns into a real emergency.
5. VIPS
Aired 29 June 2023
Sydney 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.
6. Training
Aired 6 July 2023
It'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.
7. Interrupted Journeys
Aired 13 July 2023
Duty 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.
8. Baggage
Aired 20 July 2023
Sydney 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.
9. Maintenance
Aired 27 July 2023
Looks 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.
10. Holiday Surge
Aired 3 August 2023
The 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.