Zürich Airport, also known as Zürich Kloten Airport, is the largest international airport of Switzerland and the principal hub of Swiss International Air Lines. It serves Zurich, Switzerland's largest city, and, with its surface transport links, much of the rest of the country. The airport is located 13 kilometres (8 mi) north of central Zürich.The airport is owned by Flughafen Zürich AG, a company quoted on the SIX Swiss Exchange.
The airport has three airside piers, which are known as terminals A, B and E (also signposted as Gates A, B/D and E). A central air-side building called Airside Center, built in 2003, is directly linked to terminals A and B, which take the form of finger piers.
Zurich Airport has three runways: 16/34 of 3,700 m (12,100 ft) in length, 14/32 of 3,300 m (10,800 ft) in length, and 10/28 of 2,500 m (8,200 ft) in length. For most of the day and in most conditions, runway 14 is used for landings and runways 16 and 28 are used for takeoffs, although different patterns are used early morning and in the evenings.
In 2003, Zurich Airport completed a major expansion project in which it built a new parking garage, a new midfield terminal, and an automated underground people mover to link the midfield terminal to the main terminal.
- In 1952, the airport handled 372832 passengers on 24728 airline flights.
- Zurich Airport handled 25.5 million passengers in 2014, up 2.5 percent from 2013.
- Rega, the Swiss air rescue service, has its head office in the Rega Centre, a hangar located in the northeast section of Zurich Airport.
- The airport is served by the A51 motorway and other main roads, which provide access to the airport especially for the central and eastern Switzerland.
- Zurich Airport Railway Station is located underneath the terminal.
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