Zürich Airport

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Zürich Airport
Flughafen Zürich

IATA: ZRH – ICAO: LSZH
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Flughafen Zürich
Location Zürich
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

Zürich Airport (IATA: ZRH, ICAO: LSZH) also called Kloten Airport, is located in Kloten, canton of Zürich, 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 Zürich Intl.

In 2003, Zürich 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.

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

Zürich 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, Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki)
  • Air Canada (Toronto-Pearson)
  • Air China (Beijing) [begins March 2009] [1]
  • Air Malta (Luqa)
  • Air Mauritius (Port Louis)
  • Air France (Lyon)
    • operated by CityJet (London-City, Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
  • Air One (Catania, Naples)
  • Alitalia
  • 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)
  • Belle Air (Prishtina)
  • B&H Airlines (Banja Luka, Sarajevo)
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, Buenos Aires-Ezieza [begins September 2008], 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 [begins June 22], 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, 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], Istanbul-Atatürk)
  • Ukraine International (Kiev-Boryspil)
  • United Airlines (Washington-Dulles)
  • US Airways (Philadelphia)

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