Zürich Airport

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Zurich Airport
Flughafen Zürich

IATA: ZRHICAO: LSZH
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Flughafen Zürich
Location Zurich
Elevation AMSL 1,416 ft / 432 m
Coordinates 47°27′53″N 08°32′57″E / 47.46472, 8.54917
Website http://www.zurich-airport.com
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
10/28 8,202 2,500 Concrete
14/32 10,827 3,300 Concrete
16/34 12,139 3,700 Concrete

Zurich Airport (IATA: ZRHICAO: LSZH) also called Kloten Airport, is located in Kloten, canton of Zurich, Switzerland and managed by Unique Airport. It is Switzerland's largest international flight gateway and hub to Swiss International Air Lines. Skyguide is responsible for all Air Traffic Control for Zurich Intl.

In 2003, Zurich International 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 of 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.

Zurich International lost traffic when Swissair shut down its operations. When Lufthansa took over its successor Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS), traffic grew again. Zurich airport railway station (Zürich Flughafen) is located underneath the terminal. There are trains to many parts of Switzerland; frequent S-Bahn services, plus direct InterRegio and InterCity services to Winterthur, Berne, Basel and Lucerne (German: Luzern). By changing trains at Zürich HB (Zurich main station) most other places in Switzerland can be reached in a few hours.

Zurich Airport handled 20.7 million passengers in 2007.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

  • Adria Airways (Ljubljana)
  • Aer Lingus (Dublin)
  • Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
  • airBaltic (Riga, Vilnius)
  • airberlin (Arrecife, Berlin-Tegel, Corfu, Düsseldorf, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Hamburg, Hanover, Ibiza, Las Palmas, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Saarbrücken [begins 1 November], Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki, Zakynthos)
  • Air Canada (Toronto-Pearson)
  • Air Malta (Luqa)
  • Air France (Lyon)
    • operated by CityJet (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
  • Air One (Catania, Naples)
  • Air Transat (Montreal)
  • Alitalia (Rome-Fiumicino)
  • American Airlines (New York-JFK)
  • Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
  • Belair (Abu Dhabi, Antalya, Arrecife, Bourgas, Calgary, Cancun, Djerba, Fuerteventura, Goa, Heraklion, Holguin, Hurghada, Ibiza, Kos, Larnaca, Las Palmas, Las Vegas, Male, Montego Bay, Mykonos, Palma de Mallorca, Phuket, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Rhodes, Samos, San Francisco, Santorini, Sharme El Sheikh, Skiathos, Tenerife, Thessaloniki, Vancouver, Varadero, Varna, Zakynthos)
  • B&H Airlines (Banja Luka, Sarajevo)
Airport map.
Airport map.
Interior of airport terminal.
Interior of airport terminal.
Flights await departure at Zürich Airport.
Flights await departure at Zürich Airport.
Skymetro Terminal in Gates E.
Skymetro Terminal in Gates E.
  • Swiss International Air Lines (Amsterdam, Athens, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Barcelona, Belgrade, Berlin-Tegel, Boston, Brussels, Bucharest-Otopeni, Cairo, Chicago-O'Hare, Copenhagen, Dar es Salaam, Delhi, Douala, Dubai, Dublin, Faro, Florence, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, Hanover, Hong Kong, Istanbul-Atatürk, Kiev-Boryspil, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Las Palmas, Lisbon, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Madrid, Malaga, Miami, Milan-Malpensa, Montréal, Moscow-Domodedovo, Mumbai, Munich, Muscat, Nairobi, New York-JFK, Nice, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Pristina, Riyadh, Rome-Fiumicino, Santiago de Chile, St. Petersburg, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Shanghai-Pudong, Singapore, Sofia, Stockholm-Arlanda, Tel Aviv, Thessaloniki, Tokyo-Narita, Tripoli, Valencia, Vienna, Yaounde)
    • Swiss European Air Lines (Amsterdam, Basel/Mulhouse, Birmingham, Brussels, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Hamburg, Hanover, London-City, Luxembourg, Manchester, Milan-Malpensa, Munich, Nice, Nuremberg, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Stuttgart, Venice)
    • operated by Cirrus Airlines (Prague)
    • operated by Contact Air (Warsaw)
    • operated by Darwin Airline (Lugano)
    • operated by Helvetic Airways (Birmingham, Budapest, Manchester)
    • operated by PrivatAir (Newark)
  • TAP Portugal (Lisbon, Oporto)
  • Thai Airways International (Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi)
  • TUIfly (Heraklion)
  • Turkish Airlines (Ankara [seasonal], Adana, Istanbul-Atatürk)
  • Ukraine International (Kiev-Boryspil)
  • United Airlines (Washington-Dulles)
  • US Airways (Philadelphia)

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