£1bn. And Gatwick certainly looks better than MAN's proposed re-development.
I don't know whether that is an actual or budgeted figure for LGW or a rounded headline amount. MAN's £1 billion project I believe is actually £850,000 plus contingencies but perhaps someone could confirm.
So perhaps the early renders represented a vision of what MAG wanted before the professionals who match aspirations with the realities of a limited budget became directly involved.
I think that is highly likely. Being devil's advocate though, I wonder how much extra finance would have been required to match the aspiration, and bearing in mind it was regarded as a 10 year project, whether that extra funding would be considered reasonable and justifiable for a group the size of MAG?