Rose Bay Water Airport

Rose Bay Water Airport (IATA: RSE) is a water airport located in the Sydney suburb of Rose Bay, New South Wales, Australia. It is 8 kilometres (5 miles) from Sydney's central business district and is one of two water airports in Sydney, the other being Palm Beach Water Airport.

Rose Bay Water Airport
Two Qantas Empire Airways flying boats at Rose Bay
Summary
Airport typePublic
ServesSydney
LocationRose Bay, NSW, Australia
Opened4 August 1938
Time zoneAEST (+10:00)
 • Summer (DST)AEDT (+11:00)
Coordinates33°52′14″S 151°15′19″E

History

On 4 August 1938, Rose Bay Water Airport was officially opened.[1] However, it already had been established as a flying boat base on a 'temporary basis', and was the starting point for the London-Sydney flights that were operated by Qantas Empire Airways and Imperial Airways in a codeshare agreement.[2] This made it Australia's first international airport. In 1942, due to the outbreak of World War II, commercial flights were suspended.[1] Due to the arrival of passenger jetliners in the 1950s, a gradual demise in flying boats began. In 1955, Qantas discontinued its flying boat service and sold its fleet of flying boats to Ansett Airways.[1] Ansett continued to operate flying boat services from Rose Bay Water Airport to Lord Howe Island until that was discontinued in 1974,[1] after the island's land airport was opened.

Facilities
A Sydney Seaplanes Cessna 208 Caravan at Rose Bay

Sydney Seaplanes has a single small terminal to serve customers, which is managed and maintained by Sydney Aviation, the owner of Sydney Seaplanes.[3] Sydney by Seaplane and Seawing Airways are based in another building at Rose Bay.[4][5]

Airlines and destinations
AirlinesDestinations
Sydney SeaplanesCharter: Bowral, Canberra, Hunter Valley, Lake Jindabyne, Lake Macquarie, Newcastle, Palm Beach, Port Stephens, Sydney-Mascot, Wollongong[6]

Sydney by Seaplane and Seawing Airways, which are both trading names of Krug Agencies Pty Ltd,[7] operate return sight-seeing flights to Palm beach[8][9] and elsewhere.[10][11] Sydney Seaplanes operates a series of tour packages as well as scenic flights.[12]

See also

References
  1. "Rose Bay Airport". dictionaryofsydney.org. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
  2. "Lost Sydney: Rose Bay International Airport". www.visitsydneyaustralia.com.au. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
  3. NSW, Roads and Maritime Services. "Rose Bay Seaplane Facility upgrade". Roads and Maritime Services. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
  4. "Contact Us - Sydney By Seaplane". sydneybyseaplane.com. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  5. "Sydney By Seaplane - Contact Us". seawing-airways.com.au. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  6. "Sydney Seaplanes - Charter-Flights". www.seaplanes.com.au. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
  7. "Sydney Seaplane - About Us". seawing-airways.com.au. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  8. "Palm Beach Sydney Seaplane day trips". seawing-airways.com.au. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  9. "Palm Beach Picnics from Sydney By Seaplane". sydneybyseaplane.com. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  10. "Sydney seaplanes at Palm Beach services all surrounding areas". seawing-airways.com.au. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
  11. "Sydney By Seaplanes flies to Palm Beach and surrounding areas". sydneybyseaplane.com. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  12. "Our Flights | Sydney Seaplanes". www.seaplanes.com.au. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
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