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Zurich Airport (IATA: ZRH, ICAO: LSZH) is the largest international airport of Switzerland and the principal hub of Swiss International Air Lines. It serves Zürich, Switzerland's largest city, and, with its surface transport links, much of the rest of the country.
Apr 29, 2024 · Zurich Airport is predicting a 2% increase in passenger numbers. Its director, Lukas Brosi, explains how it will cope.
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Political and legal framework. It is vitally important to the federal government that Zurich Airport runs smoothly and efficiently. The Canton of Zurich also emphasises the importance of a high-performing intercontinental airport in Switzerland for society and the economy.
Zurich Airport’s hub function is crucial to its competitiveness. Many of the intercontinental connections are lucrative only because of transfer passengers, who use Zurich as a hub to get on their long-haul flight. Without transfer passengers, most of Zurich’s international flights would no longer be available in the medium term.
- Major Infrastructure Projects
- The Future of Travelling
- General Excellence Promotes Attractiveness of Location
- A Great Place to Be and Visit
- Political Climate
- Flughafen Zürich Ag
- International Business Development
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For the past few years, Zurich Airport has been under heavy construction. By the end of this year, two of the most prominent infrastructure projects will assume operation; the afore – mentioned new Dock B and the building for centralised security checks, both part of a larger building project called ‘Zürich 2010’. Both buildings will contribute sub...
Automated processes can simplify the way we travel. Zurich Airport has been at the forefront of testing new processes to better accommodate passengers and improve processes. The goal is nothing less than seamless travel, from check-in to baggage drop-off, boarding card control, border control and all the way to selfboarding. The focus this year is ...
It is precisely because of this focus on excellent quality services that Zurich Airport is consistently ranked among the top performance airports, both within Europe and worldwide. The Airport Service Quality Award is among the most prestigious recognitions within the industry. Among the features that have consistently ranked very highly with those...
In addition to being just a great ‘place to be’, Zurich Airport is also a great place to work: It’s clean and modern, centrally located with excellent public transportation connections, lots of green spaces around the airport, one of the top three shopping centres in Switzerland and over 270 companies contributing to this hub in the heart of Europe...
Taking all particular political interests into account is proving to be an increasingly difficult task. Comparatively few other airports are as tightly restricted by political conditions as Zurich Airport. Its mission remains unchanged; to provide a high-quality and commercially successful airport service in the medium and long term. However, condi...
As a diversified business and a listed company, Flughafen Zürich AG operates Switzerland’s most important transport and meeting hub – Zurich Airport – under concession of the federal government. In the past year, the company, which receives no subsidisation, employed a staff of approximately 1400 with whom it generated a total revenue of 863 millio...
The company’s international airport activities are part of its business model. One of the bestknown and successful commitments is Bangalore International Airport in India. The airport is currently seeing a 22 per cent growth in passenger numbers, and the airport has been running profitably since the second year of operation. After selling some of i...
Thomas E. Kernwas born in 1953 in Zurich. After completing a Law degree at the University of Zurich and an MBA at INSEAD in Fontainebleau near Paris, he joined Interio AG in 1984 to head up their expansion activities, thus laying the foundations for his career in retail. He held various managerial positions within the Globus Group and was CEO from ...
A group of experts appointed by the Zurich Cantonal Government in the Spring of 1943 concludes that an airport of the planned size cannot be realised at the present location, the military and civil airfield of Dübendorf-Wangen. They propose the area between Kloten and Rümlang.
With this issue of our digital Political Newsletter, we are pleased to bring you once more news of current political topics relating to the operation of the airport. In its 2016 aviation policy report, the Federal Council undertook a comprehensive analysis of the current state of Swiss civil aviation, on
