Traffic and statistics I ve removed the comment Heathrow s facilities were originally designed to accommodate either 45 or 55 million passengers annually according to BAA 55 million the figure presented to the T5 Inquiry 45 million the figure used for the consultation into the third runway as this is a very bias comment and does not reflect the true reason as to why the number of passengers that heathrow can handle this is because the 55 million passengers was quoted during the construction of t5 which increases capacity at heathrow whereas the 45 million quoted for the construction of the 3rd runway was bearing in mind the demolition of terminals 1 and 2 as of 2008 and construction of Heathrow East which simply replaces the terminals and not to provide any extra passenger capacity at the airport and provides the airport with a capacity of around 10 million less than current The removal i thought was necessary as this was a biasness towards the opposition of Heathrows new 3rd runway