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Old Dec 9, 2025 | 6:25 am
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Originally Posted by CyBeR
The similarity of A (in English) and E (in Dutch) was a point made many times by many people with AMS's new pier (still under construction) which seems to have then been summarily ignored as ridiculous and now it's just called the A pier as it should have. The signage is already there, in fact.
Which makes sense.

If making the usage of letters imbecile-proof then they shouldn't have used "N" (=too close to M, people may go and look for something that doesn't exist) or "C" (=Americans pronounce the "Z" almost the same way, people may go and look for something that doesn't exist), "B" can be mis-heard for "P", and so on.

The point is a different one: you don't need these letters! There are terminals 1-7, and then inside these terminals you have gates that have numbers. That's all. Why add that complexity? I know it's France and we love it, but why can't they for once make an exception?
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