Originally Posted by
Trinity 09L
The new terminal is south, alongside the proposed R3. HAL staff said it was Extension to T5. It is now called T6 after Govt decision. The piers are there on cgi, but they are unable to mention if all aircraft can use it or just short/medium haul, ie no T777 or 380.
I think you may be confusing the
satellites, which would be located to the south of R3, oriented east-west (so the aircraft would park pointing north-south), with the
terminal itself, which all the drawings and artists impressions show as being adjacent to T5 on its western side. Surface access to a terminal located between the current 09L/27R and R3 would be a bit of a nightmare.
Early versions of the R3 plan showed three smaller satellites oriented north-south (as are all the other T2/T5 "toast-rack" ones), but that was before the planned R3 line was moved about 300m further south (to avoid the need to relocate M4 J4A) so the satellites had to be re-oriented to take up less space.
It's hard to tell from the plans, but the T6 satellite stands appear to be roughly the same depth as the current T2/T5 ones.