passenger experience. It wants to enlarge its terminal, add a covered forecourt and build a new on-site multistorey car park, a loop road layout to improve traffic flow, and airside infrastructure improvements including a new taxiway link. Bristol also wants to increase capacity to 12 million


annual passengers by the mid-2020s. Te airport is expected to pass the nine million milestone this year, but capacity is currently limited to ten million.


9 LIVERPOOL Cost: £100 million Estimated completion: 2030 Liverpool has a “Vision 2030” to go from about five million passengers a year to 7.8 million. Its bosses want better transport links, including direct rail access, and have also proposed an expansion of the terminal building,


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seen it add eight aircraſt stands and 28 “high-tech” check- in desks, while it is also working on taxiway improvements, lounge updates and a renovation of its departures hall. Te most noticeable change will be a £150 million


arrivals terminal, scheduled to open next year. It will offer larger immigration and baggage reclaim areas, new retail outlets and improved access for onward transport. It will also make Stansted the only UK airport with separate buildings for departures and arrivals.


8 BRISTOL Cost: £150 million Estimated completion: Mid-2020s, subject to approval Like many airport expansion plans, Bristol’s is hotly contested among the local community and yet to receive approval. Te airport argues that growth is necessary to boost jobs and regional connectivity and to improve the


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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Work is under way on a revamped Luton Airport Parkway station; London City’s terminal is to be extended; a separate arrivals terminal is being planned for Stansted; hotels in London Heathrow’s proposed new central terminal area


additional car parking, new facilities including hotels, retail, food and drink services and a potential extension of the runway – although planning permission has not been sought.


10 HEATHROW Cost: TBC Estimated completion: TBC Tere’s also the case of the UK’s biggest airport. Last year Heathrow saw 80 million passengers fly to 84 countries from four terminals. If everything goes its way that could rise to 130 million a year, flying from three runways. Te plan is a huge undertaking, and would see the M25, Britain’s busiest motorway, move up to 150 metres west and run through a tunnel under the new runway. Heathrow still needs to obtain a Development Consent


Order, which approves major infrastructure projects in England and Wales. It seeks to submit its application next year, following public consultations into noise, environmental impact, airspace planning and operations. However, it stresses that its plans are about “more than a runway”. It is also proposing a new central terminal area offering hotels, retail facilities and a covered walkway. BT


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