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Zurich Airport

Zurich metropolitan area, Liechtenstein, Vorarlberg, Austria

  • IATAZRH
  • ICAOLSZH
32.6 million Passengers a year (2025)
Serves
Zurich metropolitan area, Liechtenstein, Vorarlberg, Austria
Operator
Flughafen Zürich AG
Owner
Not recorded
Opened
14 June 1948
Elevation
1,416 ft (432 m)
Runways
3 (longest 3,700 m)
Airlines based here
Chair Airlines, Helvetic Airways, Swiss International Air Lines

About the airport

Zurich Airport (German: Flughafen Zürich; IATA: ZRH, ICAO: LSZH) is the largest international airport of Switzerland and the principal hub of Swiss International Air Lines. It serves Zurich, the largest city in Switzerland, and, with its surface transport links, much of the rest of the country. The airport is located nine kilometres (5+1⁄2 miles) north of central Zurich, in the municipalities of Kloten, Rümlang, Oberglatt, Winkel, and Opfikon, all of which are within the canton of Zurich.

This summary is adapted from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence. Passenger and runway figures come from the same source and can lag the latest annual totals, so check the figures the operator publishes for the current total.

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