Originally Posted by
good egg
Personally I could see advantages of a domestic terminal, served by one of the DLR stations, and an international terminal, served by the other DLR station, but that would very much be determined by any new stand layout that might come if expansion is finally granted.
Even if a new airport owner wanted to move away from a single-terminal layout and somehow felt that the benefits outweighed the obvious drawbacks, why ON EARTH would they want to hardwire one terminal to be domestic and the other international? That would take away a huge amount of stand capacity flexibility, and what would it gain? (If there's a BA aircraft operating inbound from EDI and then outbound to FRA (or whatever) where should it park?)
Sorry, but that's the barmiest idea I've heard for a while!
