The Greater Western Sydney GIANTS have joined with other sports teams from Western Sydney to throw their support behind a second Sydney airport at Badgerys Creek.

The Western Sydney Airport Alliance is pushing for an airport to be built at Badgerys Creek to create thousands of local jobs and allow more fans to support their team at home and away games. 

GIANTS players Toby Greene and Stephen Gilham and GIANTS Director Kevin Sheedy took to Pirtek Stadium in Parramatta alongside players from the Western Sydney Wanderers and the Wests Tigers to get behind the project.

“Community support for an airport at Badgerys Creek continues to grow with our great Western Sydney sporting icons joining the chorus of groups calling for action,” said David Borger, spokesperson for the Western Sydney Airport Alliance.

“A Western Sydney Airport at Badgerys Creek would be an economic and jobs bonanza for the entire region.

“We are facing a 200,000 jobs deficit in Western Sydney today and that is expected to rise to 400,000 by 2050 if we don’t take action to bring thousands of jobs to our doorsteps – Badgerys Creek is the common sense way to start off and our economic analysis estimates 28,000 local jobs would be created by 2050,” he said. 

Sheedy says Western Sydney sports teams had strong connections with their communities and wanted to see better job opportunities and a vibrant Western Sydney economy that would support better work-life balance.

“It’s a GIANT of an idea and it would free up the roads and create thousands of jobs and pump millions of dollars into Western Sydney,” said Sheedy.

“Air travel is an important part of a vibrant, modern economy. Airports support thousands of jobs and generate billions in economic activity. We don’t want to see our fans and their families miss out on this once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform the experience of living in Western Sydney for the better.

“Like the GIANTS coming to Western Sydney, we’re 20 years too late but it’s better late than never.”