Why is there no Terminal D at Logan Airport?

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This quirky thriller partly boils right down to the excessive price of changing highway and airport indicators.

It doesn’t take a frequent flyer to note that the record of Logan Worldwide Airport terminals jumps from A, to B, to C, to… E? 

No, the dearth of Terminal D isn’t a mistake on Logan’s half. And so far as mysteries go, this one’s fairly easy.

The Massachusetts Port Authority, which operates Logan, did away with Terminal D in 2006 in an effort to “reconfigure the world and modernize the area to make it extra consumer pleasant for passengers,” Massport spokesperson Samantha Decker informed Boston.com in an e mail. The previous Terminal D gates have been renumbered and absorbed into Terminals C and E, Decker confirmed.

A 2006 Massport press launch famous that Terminal D was extra of an annex to Terminal C anyway, its three gates utilized by Air Tran Airways, a funds airline since acquired by Southwest Airways. Nixing Terminal D required Massport to replace Logan’s pre-recorded bulletins and substitute almost 200 indicators all through the terminals, garages, and roadways, in accordance with the discharge. 

“That is a part of a wider effort to help Logan’s passengers to navigate all through the airport,” Massport’s director of aviation on the time, Thomas J. Kinton Jr., stated within the launch. “Buyer surveys point out {that a} extra environment friendly and comprehensible terminal structure would make journeys to the airport simpler and extra buyer pleasant.” 

Massport initially deliberate to attend a 12 months earlier than bumping Logan’s worldwide gateway, Terminal E, one letter up the alphabet. The Boston Globe reported on the time that the pause was meant to assist Massport keep away from confusion.

“Making the change from E to D in a single day, they feared, would possibly lead some Logan veterans heading to a global flight to cease on the AirTran gates, which have been generally known as Terminal D for greater than 25 years,” the Globe reported.

Nonetheless, Massport ultimately scrapped its plans to rename Terminal E as a result of excessive prices of updating signage, Decker defined. 

“At the moment, signage wasn’t digital so it was a extra difficult course of to switch them,” she wrote. 

Boston.com requested Massport if the dearth of Terminal D ever causes confusion amongst vacationers, significantly those that aren’t native New Englanders. 

Decker’s response? “No.”