Handle9:

 

You're reading too much into it. They are positioning the terminal the way they are due to what they have already and how they will build the baggage system. Doing it the way they have means they can get a lot of space and passenger flow efficiencies from a common check in area for domestic and international. It reduces the cost of the build and will be much more efficient to operate as a fully integrated terminal. Putting domestic to the north would be effectively replicating what they have now which is two completely separate terminals.

 

It's not ideal with the taxi way but it's a brownfields development so they are constrained by the current footprint.

 

Perhaps I am, but logic tells me that with the issues flagged by empacher48 plus the sub optimal ground ops wrt the now proposed domestic terminal location and the proposed northern runway, the building of that runway isn't likely to happen.

My comment about the north western location of the domestic terminal was referring to plans that predated the one you referred to. Obviously as time has gone on plans have changed. Hence the way it is being done now. To me it is still a short/medium term silk purse out of a sows ear solution.