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Old 27th Jun 2017, 13:54
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Originally Posted by LAX_LHR
Don't forget the fly through video was just aimed at the T2 development, not the rest of the airport. It did say 'T3 improvements', so maybe this is what the above plan is. In about 20-30 years time, MAN will be completely unrecognisable from the airport we see today.
Indeed, its just the first phase of a huge programme. The difficulty is that 20-30 years is a long time in any industry, let alone aviation. Who knows how many boom and bust cycles the UK economy will have gone through in 30 years. A new ground transport technology (maybe MAGLEV, maybe something else) may have slashed travel times to Europe.

T3 certainly needs improvements today, ridding it of some of the volume and/or increasing the airside areas would help dramatically.
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