DAA gate numbering

Stevek101

Now this baffles me.

TRAVELLERS FLYING out of Dublin from Wednesday are likely to notice a small but important change to their journey.

The boarding gates at the capital’s airport are being renumbered more logically. So it’s farewell to gate D60 and hello to gate 101, and farewell to gate B26 and hello to gate 306, as Dublin Airport Authority adopts a sequential approach to numbering at its main terminal.

Pier A, used by Ryanair for most of its flights, is renumbered in the 200 range; so A1 becomes 201. The pentagonal Pier B moves to the 300 range, with B21 becoming 301. Pier C is also changing to the 300 range, with its first gate, C41, becoming 331.

How much have they spent putting up the new sign-age only to change it again several months in.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/travel/2010/0130/1224263404654.html

lord lucan

If it ain't broke don't fix it imo. Never had a problem with the pier numbering scheme at Dublin. Always found it easy to understand,sounds like someone making work for themselves!

Stevek101

Whatever about making work, what about the cost?! I agree for frequent travellers the gate numbering was fine. However, from working up there plenty of people complained about "illogical" the layout, when they had walk down to gate C to find D.:rolleyes:

irishdub14

hold on, they've now had to take down all the brand new signs and put up even newer ones...... only in ireland, and its still confusing!! :rolleyes:

donkey balls

they will also have to paint the stand nbr's as well on the ramp

Stevek101

This is all happening on Tuesday night Anyone got an insider info on this?

Bluehair

It's a great time saver and easier to understand.

Instead of the tedious and long winded gate number of B28 which already contains pier information passengers can now enjoy the following on their boarding pass; 308..... ummm lets see now the 100s, no the 200s are in pier A and the 300s are in pier B so we go there first and..... oh yea this is much less confusing..... :rolleyes:

Plowman

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Dacian

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Absolutely. Anyone been to Amsterdam at all. Huge airport,you could spent days in the place. Guess what? They use the letter/number system....and it works fine. Going to G? Then follow the signs that say E-G All Gates,then when you walk a bit you see 3 options, E, F, G.

I agree that the LOGICAL option would to have rearranged the letters for the Piers. At the moment its E, C, B, A, D. LOGIC (and European writing)would suggest starting from the left and going clockwise. Why not just rename them. If you use current C gates as part of the T2 section you get T2 A gates, then B as it is, then C, then D at the end. How much money do you think this method would have saved the DAA?

And that way you would not have to renumber the aircraft stands,I think they are numbers in the hundreds anyway. I saw 111 on the tarmac on my last visit to the D gates.

EchoIndia

Dacian wrote: »

And that way you would not have to renumber the aircraft stands,I think they are numbers in the hundreds anyway. I saw 111 on the tarmac on my last visit to the D gates.

The aircraft stands are numbered independently of the boarding gates. In any case they have been subject to fairly frequent revisions of one sort or another as construction work etc. has led to changes in the number of stands available and the physical positions of some of them.

FlutterinBantam

Not too difficult surely

Numbered in sequence from North to South

D are the 100s
A the 200s
B the 300s
C from 330
E the 400s

The confusion is that the alpha sequence is not in sequence, so scrap it and there ya go, no one will notice in a couple of weeks time.

oddiot

FlutterinBantam wrote: »

Not too difficult surely

Numbered in sequence from North to South

D are the 100s
A the 200s
B the 300s
C from 330
E the 400s

The confusion is that the alpha sequence is not in sequence, so scrap it and there ya go, no one will notice in a couple of weeks time.

Seems pretty logical really... Numbers always greater in one direction and lesser in the opposite direction. So when you go through security it'll be left for gates 300-499 (if the 400s are accessible from T1 that is!) and right for gates 100-299.

Victor

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I agree that the LOGICAL option would to have rearranged the letters for the Piers. At the moment its E, C, B, A, D. LOGIC (and European writing)would suggest starting from the left and going clockwise. Why not just rename them.

It would cause utter confusion in the change over. potentially you'd have adul salt staff telling people to go to Pier A, when the actually mean the old Pier A. Sure, they can go back to alpha-number in a few years if they want.

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Davidth88

Can I ask one very simple question .....


WHY ?

It was working ok as it was , or at least it seemed to me it was .

Ohhh well I suppose DAA had consultants in , no doubt paid huge sums , who had to produce something .

Victor

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Pier F is to go in at the current cargo terminal. Of course, you still have 00-99.

If the hangars eventually go, they they can look at renumbering.

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saeglopur

i presume the reason behind the 3 digit gate numbers is to stop passengers confusing their seat number with a gate number. quite a lot of pax miss flights by sitting at gate a5 for example when in fact their seat number is 5a! :eek:

Also from what i can see the new gate signs that were installed a few months ago can be easily changed as the gate numbers are made of cardboard that can be changed easily enough.