On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 13:13:07 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 13:04:37 on
Tue, 2 Sep 2014, Recliner remarked:
http://goo.gl/maps/ohZXO

And if you draw another arc mirroring the shuttle to the north terminal
(you aren't getting confused by the satellite I hope) it'll end up
exactly where the new terminal is pictured, just south of the eastern
end of the existing runway.

No, it's nearly twice as far. A flipped arc would get you just beyond
the end of the runway, not the terminal.

But the corner of the terminal is only a taxi-way (or about three
plane-lengths) from the corner of the runway. Utterly trivial for a
shuttle train's transit time.

Of course, this discussion of the length of a flipped arc is all a bit
academic, as the inter-terminal link would be underground, and would
presumably take a straighter, more direct route under the runway and
two taxiways, rather like the Barajas T4 link.