St. Gallen-Altenrhein Airport

St. Gallen-Altenrhein Airport
IATA: ACH – ICAO: LSZR
ACH
Location of airport in Switzerland
Summary
Serves St. Gallen, Switzerland
Location Altenrhein, Canton of St. Gallen
Elevation AMSL 1,306 ft / 398 m
Website www.peoples.ch
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
10R/28L 4,921 1,500 Asphalt
10L/28R 1,968 600 Grass

St. Gallen-Altenrhein Airport is an airport at Altenrhein (municipality of Thal) in the Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland (IATA: ACH, ICAO: LSZR). This small airport is located on the Swiss side of the Bodensee, also known as Lake Konstance. The paved, eastbound runway is equipped with ILS, or Instrumental Landing System. The approach more often then not requires the use of ILS, due to the rapidly changing weather conditions of the Bodensee's enviorment.

Contents

Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways Vienna
Lauda Air Charter: Cagliari, Olbia
People's Viennaline Vienna

World's Top 10 Airport Approaches

The airport ranked fifth in PrivateFly.com's 2010 poll to find the world's best airport approaches.[1]

References

  1. ^ PrivateFly.com

External links

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