Originally Posted by
Fairdealfrank
Not nonsense. As you state, "the T3 footprint will be replaced by the final bunch of T2 satellites to complete the "toast-rack" configuration." So the current occupants have to go somewhere, and that is the sixth terminal which will have an airside section across the A4, and doubtless other infrastructure will be needed over there. Not tomorrow, but within a reasonable timescale. Without a third rwy, some of LHR's movements will involve some increasingly larger aircraft over time, obviously.
Sorry, but simply repeating your assertion, still without any evidence, doesn't make it any more true.
T6 would clearly be necessary to support the ~700,000 ATMs that a third runway would allow. Please provide some evidential basis for your argument that traffic with two runways, even allowing for a gradual increase in average aircraft size, would necessitate additional terminal capacity over and above that of the proposed East/West toast-rack configuration.