Future Plans
I was involved with moves and proposed Terminal changes up until about 6 months ago. It seems to change almost weekly as soon as a plan is announced it seems to get shelved.
Proposals were ...... T2 Extension to start winter 2014 as a matter of urgency. Included in this was a domestic area (nope not a clue where it will go) specificly to move B.A over there with there buddies AA/USair.
Originally when Ryanair moved to T3 one of the things that was brought up was that they like to have between 12-16 a/c as a based fleet, and that they should look to the future with this in mind, a plan was drawn up to accomodate this, but will probably have changed by now. It did involve a lot of remote parking for other operators.
The plan at the time was to extend T2 so that it could take about 20 million pax, and then drop, and rebuild T1/T3 together. As it stands the last plans showed T1 being dropped and a hotel being built on the current tower area, which seems to be inline with the diversifying into retail aspect of the current management. I.e the Trafford centre with a captive audience of pax and incidental parking for those infernal flying machines.