The general layout does not follow any logic at all and is not at all pleasant to use. They have gate 2 next to 8 and 77-84 next to 5, and then Gates 16-21 are between 77-84 and 39-47. Even on the new bit which will become T2 doesn't make a lot of sense as they are numbered 47A,B, 48, 49 and then it switches to 31 and starts to count down again until you get the old Europier and you see gate 41 next to 39!!!!
The gates are based on the stand numbers, however in T1 it was changed as per below :
Gate 1 was BMI serving Stand 102
Gate 5 was the BA lounge serving Stands 101, 103, 105
Gate 7 also serves Stand 105
Gate 8 is the BMI lounge area and serves :
8A Stand 104
8B Stand 106
8C Stand 109
8D Stand 108
8E Stand 110
8F Stand 112
The "old Novembers" is the steel construct for the Irish and some domestic flights now used by T1 international. They are gates 174-192, of which 188 onwards is now used by Terminal 3 and has had the airbridges removed.
Confused? See the link below.
http://www.ead.eurocontrol.int/eadba...2012-05-31.pdf
The new bit is only half built remember, so the West side will run Gate 31-39 and the East side 41-49. At the moment we have 31-33 and 47-49 in use, with both 33 and 47 able to have two narrow bodies parked so they have two gates. It's easier to see the stands on the chart as they are 233L and 233R, 247L and 247R. These stands can either have one heavy aircraft like a B747 or two smaller aircraft like an A320. Hope that helps a little.....
T3 is the same where some of the A380 gates are split so they can park two smaller aircraft.