Heathrow Airport's $19 Billion Expansion Plan

London is commonly considered one of the financial capitals of the world, with a lot of banking and light regulations. It also has grown to become a major aviation hub. London’s main airport, Heathrow International Airport has grown to see roughly 80 million annual passengers, and features 4 massive terminals. Despite its large size, Heathrow has long had major congestion problems, limited space to expand, and some of the highest landing slot costs which have negatively affected the airport. An all new massive plan to expand Heathrow has surfaced recently, and it claims to help alleviate the problems Heathrow currently has. This is Heathrow’s $19 billion expansion plan!
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0:00 Introduction
1:00 History
2:43 The $19 Million Expansion Plan
4:42 Summary
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Question of the Day - What do you think of Heathrow Airport's Expansion Plan?

[daweatherdude]

Wow! Nice airport! I love London! Great video as always Jonesrmj! 👍

[narutouusi-maki]

they have been studying the third runway for literally 40 years, depending which political party is in power. sometimes they support it, sometimes they don't . The NIMBY's will always come to protest and i am skeptical it will ever happen.

[nautilusshell]

This will take at least another 30 years to complete.

[ddarkdomz]

I think Heathrow Airport should consider a dual runway layout a la Paris CDG, with the existing runways gaining a runway by their side. In return for this, Heathrow Airport could propose a harsher but segmented curfew. The CDG layout allows for faster turnaround of planes. With this, Heathrow Airport could argue for support by not needing to take extra space by the third runway and T6 proposal. It could even propose to demolish T4, by keeping it between the 4 runways. In the longer term, have Terminal 5 move backwards, while they can rebuild a T3 opposite T2 where the maintenance is.

They will have to think long term. They need to restrict the size of aircraft to favor bigger aircraft, to allow for closer wake separation. For example, min size MAX 10 and A321s.

[JohanMsWorld]

I think they need both 3 runways at Heathrow and 2 at Gatwick plus a highspeed railway link between the two. Or at least they used to need that before the pandemic and Brexic mess. Now I am not so sure until the aircraft industry is back on its feets. Johan.

[overthecounterbeanie]

They should have added a runway each to the north and south of the existing runways.

[neilduran]

Can anyone comment on the expansion of the London airports and for the north of England to be connected to these airports? The future could involve closing most airports in the UK and using HSTs to connect to key hub airports like Heathrow! That is my understanding of why HS2 is being built?

[JohnDH]

For that money you could probably build a whole new airport and have 2 major hubs, but who am I? 3 if you count Gatwick.

[JuanGarcia-vbdu]

Looks good. Like very much. Houston and LAX should look at this design and follow.

[RichardShelton]

Too little too late, I'm afraid. Better to look for another airport like they did with Gatwick.

[RRguy]

NOT going to happen because LHR is a political football. Really the UK should find a place for a complete new airport and build it from the ground up to have 5 or 6 runways and at least 6-8 terminal buildings. Unless they do that there will never be a fully functional UK International Hub.

[archiewells]

I think that Gatwick should actually should expand

[bullpro]

The worst airport in Europe to connect through. Amsterdam Schiphol all the way!