10-year-old girl becomes one billionth passenger of Sydney Airport

Ten-year-old Katinka Hermens from the Blue Mountains has been feted as she arrived into Sydney becoming the airport's one billionth passenger.[Photo: screen shot from AAP Images]

Katinka Hermens was surprised by Sydney Airport staff when she arrived on a Singapore Airlines flight on Thursday morning. Staff congratulated the 10-year-old on becoming the one billionth passenger at Sydney Airport by offering her Singapore Airline tickets for herself and her family to travel anywhere in the world within the next 12 months.

Sydney Airport welcomed its one billionth passenger on an A380 exactly 100 years after the first-ever commercial passenger landed at the airport on a dirt runway in the back of a two-seat bi-plane.