On 15th December, 2025, ADP Group announced that they will implement a new naming system for terminals, departure lounges and car parks at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) to coincide with the launch of CDG Express, which is a direct rail link connecting Paris CDG to Paris-Gare de l’Est in 20 minutes in March 2027.
Paris-Charles de Gaulle is France’s largest airport and one of Europe’s main hubs. It caters to 70 million passengers per year as well as huge numbers of connecting passengers.
Paris CDG’s new look
From March 2027, terminals at CDG will be identified solely by numbers, from Terminal 1 to 7, without any associated letters. The current 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 2E, 2F, and 2G terminals will become separate terminals, each identified by a different number.
Departure lounges, which are accessible after security checks, will be identified by letters at CDG.
Car parks will be identified by the same numbers as the terminals, and indoor, outdoor and road signage will adopt a consistent approach across the entire site of CDG.
From March 2026, some companies that sell tickets a year in advance for March 2027 will already integrate these new names for their passengers.
Why now?
The reason why ADP Group is making this change at CDG Airport is to make various movements within the airport become perfectly intuitive for all passengers, especially those on connecting flights, which make up more than 30% of daily passengers at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport.
The introduction of new naming systems for terminals, departure lounges and car parks at CDG will end the accumulation of numbers and letters of the T2EM type (Terminal 2E, Hall M) altogether.
The new naming system is set up according to international standards and would lead to all terminals at CDG only having numbers and no longer a number and/or a letter.
Terminal 1 will remain Terminal 1, and each terminal after that will have a number, in ascending order, from Terminal 1 to Terminal 7.
Terminal 3 will become Terminal 2; Terminal 2A and 2C will become Terminal 3; Terminal 2B and 2D will become Terminal 4; and Terminal 2E, which includes Halls K, L, and M, will become Terminal 5 with departure halls B, C, and D.
Furthermore, Terminal 2F will become Terminal 6, and Terminal 2G will become Terminal 7.
The new naming system installation is a large-scale collective project which would involve the airport’s 900 companies and the 90,000 employees who will work at CDG in the upcoming months.
All signs will be changed between September and December 2026 and will be temporarily covered with stickers before being all removed to be unveiled in March 2027, when the CDG Express rail will be commissioned.
Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport covers 1/3 of the area of Paris and serves 328 destinations in 119 countries. It is one of the busiest airports in the European Union, with 70.3 million passengers in 2024, according to Eurostat data.
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