Zürich Airport
Facts on ZRH
Zurich Airport is widely nicknamed "Kloten Airport" because its runways and terminals actually sit in the municipality of Kloten, north of the city, even though its IATA code ZRH points to Zurich itself.
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When Swissair collapsed in a cash-flow crisis and grounded its entire fleet on 2 October 2001, its assets were sold off to form a new carrier, Swiss International Air Lines, which today is Zurich Airport's home hub airline.
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Zurich Airport's first runway, the 1,900-metre West Runway 10/28, opened on 14 June 1948, when a Swissair Douglas DC-4 took off for London — the maiden flight from a site chosen in wartime moorland between Kloten and Oberglatt.
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The airport's runways and buildings actually spread across five municipalities — Kloten, Rümlang, Oberglatt, Winkel and Opfikon — all in the canton of Zurich, roughly nine kilometres north of the city center the IATA code ZRH refers to.
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The Circle, a 180,000-square-metre complex of shops, offices, a hospital wing and Hyatt hotels opposite the main terminal, was designed by Japanese Pritzker Prize laureate Riken Yamamoto and opened on 5 November 2020 after a two-phase build costing about one billion Swiss francs.
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Zurich's airport fire brigade must be able to reach any point across the airfield's 880-hectare grounds within three minutes under international standards, using vehicles built with especially powerful engines and large-capacity tanks.
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A railway station sits directly beneath the Airport Centre, with roughly 13 trains an hour to Zürich's main station, Zürich Hauptbahnhof, a journey of just 9 to 13 minutes, plus direct InterCity and Eurocity trains reaching Basel, Geneva and Munich.
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Zurich Airport is run by the publicly traded company Flughafen Zürich AG; the canton of Zurich holds just over a third of the shares and the city of Zurich another 5%, with no other single shareholder exceeding 3%.
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