With the latest attempt at providing a new drop off area ending in tears and with one attempt to go when it moves into its final location next year with a move to the ground floor of the new multi-storey the unpalatable truth is that the traffic situation cannot be fixed by current thinking.
Looking at the traffic over the last 2 days it would have been better to have less but wider lanes so cars can turn without being halted by illegally parked cars using the hatched areas as a dropping off point but with cars being directed to use more than one lane the traffic still queues for over a mile. With less traffic using zones B onwards illegal parking is not an issue but the jams remain as cars have to filter into a single lane before the drop off zone. It would have been better to have cars filtering into 2 lanes on the ring road with the second lane giving access to drop off zones C onwards but the ring road is only 2 lanes wide so a third lane would be required for coaches and access to the existing multi-storey .
This month the airport brings out its consultation to double numbers. It is clear the existing CTA can play no part in future airport expansion so a separate CTA and new terminal will be needed.