I thought part of the terminal planning constraints was a requirement to present as low a profile as practical, hence the clever design of building it into the side of the hill, giving an airside aspect of one floor plus mezzanine floor and a landside aspect of 2 floors plus mezzanine floor. I often wonder what new pax from BRS make of entering the terminal landside on the ground floor, going up a staircase after check-in to find themselves still apparently on the ground floor once they reach the departure lounge.
As for WATABENCH’s rumour, although the suggestion would not seem to take the terminal building any higher, there would surely be a small matter of planning consents and
AFAIK nothing has appeared in the local press about any such proposal. And anything like this would be sure to have reached the ears of the Chew Valley some of whose residents would have blown a gasket at the very thought, because to them it would be the next step along the path towards a fullscale Heathrow amongst the green and pleasant fields. Neither does anything appear in the development documents on the airport website.
Back to the CO EWR route, CAA provisional stats for June have been published today. They show 7151 pax used the route in June, an average of 119 per flight or, put another way, around the 70% load factor that has been bandied about for a number of weeks.