Originally Posted by
RooFlyer
I guess you are talking about just T5 at LHR, and aren't holding LHR up as a general example of good airport design?

The long-term plan for LHR (involving destroying pretty much everything except the current T5 and the underway T2/Heathrow East project) is actually pretty sensible. The big problem for LHR, of course, is the shortage of runways.