The draft Master Plan
'The aim is to be handling 18 million passengers a year by 2033 – a 40 per cent increase on the current traffic of around 13 million a year.'
'As part of the aim to handle more passengers, the airport will change the layout of its existing aircraft stands – the parking bays for passenger jets while they load and unload passengers and cargo – and build additional new stands, taking the airport from 58 operational stands today to 69 by 2033. But there will be no second runway.'
Plans show an additional parallel taxiway between the runway and the aprons to improve the flow of traffic around the terminal area. Also, the grass area between the aprons and the old cross runway is filled in to provide additional remote parking
A number of public exhibitions will take place throughout the West Midlands from November 12 to January 22, 2019, and the consultation period ends on January 31, 2019.
The final version of the master plan will be published early next year.
Interesting that in the 2007 Master Plan, the forecast passenger total for 2030 was 27.2 million - how things have changed!