Highest Gate Number or Letter?
 

There are 20 airport maps in the back of the Delta magazine, which had me wondering......

(1) Which airport has the highest number gate?
(2) Which airport uses the most letters for concourses?
(3) Which airport has the most building/terminal designations? (1-9, A-Z, Ewa/DiamondHead, N-S-E-W, etc)

In my domestic USA experience, just off the top of my head, maybe:
(1) EWR has gate numbers up in the 130s, but not sure if that's consecutive.
(2) ORD goes up to Concourse M--but skips A,I,J
(3) LAX designates up to Terminal 8--but does that include the Bradley International terminal?

In 2010, when I kvetch about long hikes in the airport since "my plane was at gate Z-99," I'd at least like to be accurate!

(Apologies if this info is elsewhere...I did a quick site search for "highest gate number")

EWR C starts in the 70s...http://www.continental.com/web/en-US...B7299C319754E5

looks like Narita has gate 99..not sure if they're consecutive or not

The gate numbers went into the 100s at the (retired) Comair concourse in CVG. Of course, those weren't actual gates, just doorways leading onto the tarmac.

Shouldn't this be in Travelbuzz? ;)

EWR A has 3 concourses, 10-18, 20-29, 30-39
EWR B has 3 concourses, 40-47, 50-57, 60-68 (many foreign carriers, with widebodies, are in B, so I'm guessing that the concourses are the same size as A).
EWR C has 3 concourses. 1 has 3 legs, 70-75, 80-87 and 90-99; 2 has 24commuter gates 101A-115B, and 3 has 120-139.

So, basically, EWR has 125 gates.

You need to factor in "offical" numbers vs. numbers used in the terminal.

At LHR the gates - at least in T1/2/3 - all begin with the terminal number when seen from the outside. So, Gate 23 in Terminal 3 is actually numbered 323.

Phuket Thailand has a 666 because I was just in it.

Although it's not a hard and fast rule, the OMNI's are pretty much for non-miles, travel or points topics. It's kind of a place to relax from discussing those issues which we do so intensely in the other FT forums.

With that thought in mind, we're going to move this thread to TravelBuzz! Please follow at its new home.

Thanks.

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Cholula
OMNI Co-Moderator

The new LCC terminal at HKG has gates numbered in the 500s!

LAX & JFK have quite a few different terminals. TBIT is un-numbered, the terminal to the left (from landside) is T4 and to the right is T3.

In ONT's terminal 4 the gates are all three-digit. US seems to use gate 411 which is the highest I've ever recorded using.

They're in Terminal 4. :D

(1) MCO's gates go upto 129 over 4 buildings. As far as I know that is consecutive (though that does seem like an awful lot of gates)...