Originally Posted by
Cyrano
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!
Yes, but at the moment that's how stands work! Also to do with immigration/domestic gates etc.
That's why if a domestic lands and can only park on an international stand the pax need bussing to the domestic gate (similarly if an international flight lands and has to park on a domestic stand).