Originally Posted by
Walnut
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
70% of UK's air cargo goes through LHR.
95% of that goes on pax aircraft.
Only about 2.5k freighters operate through LHR and that's in the off-peak slots.
So the demand is at LHR and you can't force LHR's route network to LGW.