Originally Posted by
EGPO
Looking at Google Earth it seems they need to grab that land to the north west is it.
It's a very long time since I worked for Air UK but the problem coming in on rwy 14 is that there is high ground on the approach so much so that the GPWS would sound "too low, pull up" or whatever.
Apparently that is the mistake the British Airtours L-1011 made all those years ago, that the flight crew were unfamiliar with LBA, that they believed the GPWS and touched down way too late to stop in time before the end of the runway.