Originally Posted by
Walnut
It seems the open land between T5 and the M25 would be least disruptive, it would also interlink nicely with T5.
Which is presumably why the plan is indeed to build T6 there.
I still feel the R/w could be built the other side of the motorway in relatively open land with just connective taxiways back across the motorway to connect into the main a/p.
I though we had already discussed the impracticability of that in the main Heathrow thread ?
I am also wondering why freight has to come into Lhr surely a new freight terminal at Lgw would allow it to connect to Europe through the channel tunnel without all the difficult trucking around the M25
Almost all of the freight that goes through LHR (over 95%) flies in the belly holds of passenger aircraft, much of it on routes that aren't served at all from LGW.
Freighters (A300s and 757 of DHL, 747s of CX, SQ and EK) account for a minuscule proportion (about 0.15%) of LHR movements.