Zurich Airport
Zürich Airport Flughafen Zürich | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||||||
| Operator | Flughafen Zürich | ||||||||||||||||||
| Serves | Zürich | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Kloten, Rümlang, and Oberglatt | ||||||||||||||||||
| Hub for | Edelweiss Air Swiss International Air Lines | ||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,416 ft / 432 m | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 47°27′53″N 08°32′57″E / 47.46472°N 8.54917°E | ||||||||||||||||||
| Website | http://www.zurich-airport.com | ||||||||||||||||||
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Zürich Airport (IATA: ZRH, ICAO: LSZH) also called Kloten Airport, is located in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland and managed by Unique Airport. It is Switzerland's largest international flight gateway and hub to Swiss International Air Lines. It is partially in Kloten,[1] partially in Rümlang,[2] and partially in Oberglatt.[3] Skyguide is responsible for all Air Traffic Control for Zürich.
Structure
In 2003, Zürich Airport completed a major expansion project in which it built a new parking garage, a new midfield terminal, and an automated underground train to move passengers between the existing terminal complex and the new terminal. In November 2008, Unique Company announced a complete renovation and rebuild of the old fingerdock 'B' structure. The visitor terrace will be temporarily closed during construction, but airport officials announced that a terrace will be included in the new structure.
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Adria Airways | Ljubljana |
| Aer Lingus | Dublin, London-Gatwick [ends 24 February] |
| Aeroflot | Moscow-Sheremetyevo |
| AirBaltic | Riga |
| Air Berlin | Alicante [seasonal], Bari [begins 27 March, seasonal], Berlin-Tegel, Catania [seasonal], Corfu [seasonal], Düsseldorf, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Hamburg, Hanover, Heraklion [seasonal], Ibiza [seasonal], Kos [seasonal], Lamezia Terme [seasonal], Lanzarote, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Malaga [begins 26 March, seasonal], Naples [begins 27 March], Olbia [seasonal], Palermo [begins 26 March, seasonal], Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes [seasonal], Samos [seasonal], Santa Cruz de la Palma [ends 30 April], Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki [seasonal], Zakynthos [seasonal] |
| Air Berlin operated by Belair | Antalya [seasonal], Bodrum [begins 22 May, seasonal], Djerba [seasonal], Hurghada, Luxor, Marsa Alam, Monastir [begins 8 May, seasonal], Pristina, Sharm el-Sheikh |
| Air Canada | Toronto-Pearson |
| Air Malta | Malta |
| Air France operated by CityJet | Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| Air Seychelles | London-Heathrow, Mahė |
| American Airlines | New York-JFK |
| Armavia | Yerevan |
| Austrian Airlines | Vienna |
| Austrian operated by Tyrolean Airways | Vienna |
| Belle Air | Tirana |
| B&H Airlines | Banja Luka, Sarajevo |
| Blue1 | Helsinki |
| Blue Islands | Guernsey, Jersey, Southampton |
| BMI Regional | Edinburgh |
| British Airways | London-Heathrow |
| British Airways operated by BA CityFlyer | London-City |
| Bulgaria Air | Sofia |
| Cirrus Airlines | Dresden, Salzburg |
| City Airline | Gothenburg-Landvetter |
| Continental Airlines | Newark |
| Croatia Airlines | Dubrovnik, Split, Zagreb |
| Cyprus Airways | Larnaca |
| Czech Airlines | Prague |
| Delta Air Lines | Atlanta, New York-JFK [seasonal] |
| EasyJet | London-Gatwick, London-Luton |
| Edelweiss Air | Agadir, Antalya, Arrecife, Burgas, Cagliari, Calgary [begins 17 May, seasonal], Cancun, Casablanca, Colombo, Corfu, Djerba, Enfidha [seasonal, begins 11 April], Faro, Fortaleza, Fuerteventura, Goa, Heraklion, Holguin, Hurghada, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, Kos, Larnaca, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Lesbos, Luxor, Male, Mallorca, Marrakech, Marsa Alam, Mersa Matrouh, Minorca, Mombasa, Monastir, Mykonos, Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Phuket, Pristina, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Rhodes, Salvador da Bahia, Samos, Santorini, Sharm el-Sheikh, Skiathos, Split [begins 17 May], Tenerife-South, Vancouver [begins 17 May, seasonal], Varadero, Varna, Zakynthos, Zanzibar |
| El Al | Tel Aviv |
| Emirates | Dubai |
| Finnair | Helsinki |
| Free Bird Airlines | Antalya |
| Germanwings | Cologne/Bonn |
| Hello | Antalya, Burgas, Corfu, Djerba, Heraklion, Hurghada, Kos, Marsa Alam, Monastir, Mykonos, Palma de Mallorca, Pristina, Rhodes, Santorini, Sharm el Sheikh, Umeå, Varna, Zakynthos |
| Helvetic Airways | Brindisi, Jerez de la Frontera, Lamezia Terme, Ohrid, Olbia, Pula, Rijeka, Rostock-Laage [begins 23 May], Skopje |
| Iberia | Madrid |
| Jat Airways | Belgrade |
| KLM | Amsterdam |
| Korean Air | Seoul-Incheon, Vienna |
| LOT Polish Airlines | Warsaw |
| Lufthansa | Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Augsburg Airways | Munich |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings | Düsseldorf |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa Cityline | Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Munich |
| Malév Hungarian Airlines | Budapest |
| Montenegro Airlines | Podgorica, Niš |
| Niki | Vienna |
| Onur Air | Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk |
| Pegasus Airlines | Antalya, Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen |
| Pegasus operated by IZair | Izmir |
| Qatar Airways | Doha |
| Robin Hood Aviation | Graz |
| Royal Jordanian | Amman |
| Scandinavian Airlines | Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda |
| Singapore Airlines | Singapore |
| Sky Airlines | Antalya |
| SunExpress | Antalya, Izmir |
| Swiss International Air Lines | Amsterdam, Athens, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Belgrade, Berlin-Tegel, Boston, Brussels, Bucharest-Henri Coandă, Cairo, Chicago-O'Hare, Copenhagen, Dar es Salaam, Delhi, Douala, Dubai, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Faro [seasonal], Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, Hanover, Hong Kong, Istanbul-Atatürk, Jeddah [ends 31 January], Johannesburg, Larnaca [seasonal], Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Lisbon, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Madrid, Malaga, Manchester, Miami, Milan-Malpensa, Montréal-Trudeau, Moscow-Domodedovo, Mumbai, Muscat, Nairobi, New York-JFK, Nice, Oslo-Gardermoen, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Porto [begins 4 July], Pristina, Riyadh [ends 31 January], Rome-Fiumicino, St Petersburg, São Paulo-Guarulhos, San Francisco [resumes 2 June] [4], Shanghai-Pudong, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tel Aviv, Tenerife-South [seasonal], Thessaloniki, Tokyo-Narita, Valencia, Vienna, Yaoundé |
| Swiss operated by Contact Air | Prague, Stuttgart, Warsaw |
| Swiss operated by Darwin Airline | Lugano |
| Swiss operated by Helvetic Airways | Birmingham, Budapest, Lyon, Milan-Malpensa, Venice-Marco Polo |
| Swiss operated by PrivatAir | Newark |
| Swiss operated by Swiss European Air Lines | Basel/Mulhouse, Berlin-Tegel, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Florence, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hanover, London-City, Luxembourg, Lyon, Milan-Malpensa, Minorca, Munich, Nice, Nuremberg, Stuttgart |
| TAP Portugal | Lisbon, Porto |
| TAROM | Bucharest-Henri Coandă |
| Thai Airways International | Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi |
| Tunisair | Djerba, Tunis |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul-Atatürk |
| Ukraine International | Kiev-Boryspil |
| United Airlines | Washington-Dulles |
| US Airways | Philadelphia |
| Vueling | Santiago de Compostela [begins 29 March] |
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Interior of airport terminal -
Flights await departure at the airport
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Skymetro Terminal in Gates E
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Airside centre -
Runways -
Orientation of the runways -
Airport map
Traffic
The airport lost a lot of traffic when Swissair shut down its operations. Since Lufthansa took over its successor Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS), traffic has started growing again.
Zürich Airport handled 22.1 million passengers in 2008.
Connectivity
Zürich airport railway station (Bahnhof SBB Flughafen Zürich) is located underneath the terminal. There are trains to many parts of Switzerland; frequent S-Bahn Zürich services on the lines S2, S3 and S16 and of the Glatttalbahn (Zürich tram line 10), plus direct InterRegio and InterCity services to Winterthur, Berne, Basel, Brig, St. Gallen, Lucerne (German: Luzern) and Konstanz in Germany. It also has EuroCity services to Munich in Germany. By changing trains at Zürich Hauptbahnhof most other places in Switzerland can be reached in a few hours.
External links
- Zürich Airport (Official Site)
- Unique (Flughafen Zürich AG) — airport operators
References
- ^ "Kloten." Ortspläne Schweiz. Retrieved on 2 October 2009.
- ^ "OIS Rümlang." Geoglatt. Retrieved on 2 October 2009.
- ^ "Oberglatt." Aris Geoservices. Retrieved on 2 October 2009.
- ^ http://www.swiss.com/web/EN/about_swiss/media/press_releases/Pages/pr_20091201.aspx