re: New MSY Terminal design: taxi times to increase by 40% for inbound jets, 70% for outbound

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No high speed exit to the north terminal where taxiway Foxtrot currently is for the old one. Aircraft that need to push back from the southern tips off the new terminal will come close to blocking the exit.

I can see aircraft exiting 11 on the south side to foxtrot and having to double back and re-cross the runway at some point if the following aircraft is close behind. More runway crossings is also a safety issue.

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Fair enough. Foxtrot is ~7,000' from the threshold, which should be more than fine for most aircraft landing 11 to slow to make a left hand exit. Keep in mind, MSY is predominantly 737s and A320 family aircraft. If they do need the full length, then they can take it, but I don't recall seeing many planes require the full length today.

The push will not affect the runway exit/taxi way, you'll have dual taxi lanes so that you can push either east or west without affecting taxi lanes.

The bigger issue will be anything taking the full length of 29, would have to turn left onto Echo and cross at Charlie. Again, the only planes that may potentially need that are the wide body flights that operate a total of 8 times a week. Even then, 10,000' is more than enough runway to land and slow to turn off onto Alpha.