Finger dock

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Typical arrangements of passenger terminals

Terminal 3 at Chicago O'Hare Airport has multiple finger docks.

A finger dock is part of an airport terminal . It leads from the central area of ​​the terminal to the apron . On both sides of the dock there are stands for aircraft with gates and mostly passenger boarding bridges .

Examples

Linear shape

• Dock A and Dock B at Zurich Airport

T-shape (hammerhead)

• Terminal 1 at Toronto Pearson Airport

Y shape

• Terminal 2 and Terminal 3 at Chicago O'Hare Airport
• Basel Mulhouse Freiburg airport

See also

• Satellite (aviation)

literature

• Niels Klussmann and Arnim Malik (2004): Lexicon of Aviation. Springer publishing house. P. 73.
• Richard de Neufville and Amedeo Odoni (2003): Airport Systems: Planning, Design, and Management. McGraw-Hill. P. 576f.