DAA CHANGES: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.
On Tuesday night the existing signs will be taken down and replaced with the new numbering, which goes up numerically in an anticlockwise direction.
Dublin airport’s piecemeal development has left its piers numbered rather haphazardly. Pier D, for example, is before piers A and B rather than between C and E, so distracted early-morning travellers could end up wandering the wrong way in search of it.
DAA spokeswoman Siobhan Moore says the new layout will improve the experience of passing through the airport and allow for future growth.
The new numbering system starts with pier D, where from next week gates will be numbered in the 100 range.
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.
When Pier E, in the new Terminal 2 building, opens towards the end of the year it will use numbers in the 400 range.
