Airporters connecting runways?

For years and years there has been talk of extra runways to expand Heathrow as our London hub, and the latest idea is to bury the M4 in a tunnel with a runway above.

But what would happen if we introduced the humble airporter?

It can take ages to get around these massive hub airports and the chance of luggage going AWOL is increasing, so imagine an airporter into which passengers and luggage are security checked.  It can whisk both around the airport in no time at all.

Each airporter would take up to a dozen passengers with their luggage securely stored at the rear.  Larger groups would simply use consecutive airporters.

Now imagine that I want to travel to another London airport for a convenient connecting flight; simple, the same airporter is picked up by an overhead monorail which can travel at 80mph.  In 20mins I'm at Gatwick.  Thus all the London airports become the hub.



The monorail system could be quiet light and hung beneath inverted J stanchions.  This would mean routes could be nearly as the crow flies.  A number of airporters would be grouped to form a string.  Air slide bearings could keep noise low.

Its one of my ideas and will feature in the second of the Buffalo Future novels