12 Facts About Zurich Airport

Zurich Airport is the largest international airport of Switzerland and the principal hub of Swiss International Air Lines.

In March 1943, the government of the canton of Zurich commissioned a study to identify possible locations for the construction of a major airport.

The Government formally approved it and submitted it to the Federal Government, strongly emphasizing that the Zurich project was "far superior" to the planned Swiss Central Airport Utzenstorf near Bern.

The Zurich project was granted the status of an intercontinental airport and the highest possible subsidy rate of 35 percent.

Switzerland's federal parliament decided in 1945 that Zurich was to be the site of a major airport, and sold 655 hectares of the Kloten-Bulach Artillery Garrison to the canton of Zurich, giving the canton control of the new airfield.

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Canton of Zurich Airport acquired a further 135 hectares of land for the expansion of the civil engineering works, which lasted until the beginning of 1961 in parallel with the construction of the buildings.

Zurich Airport dropped the brand Unique in favour of Zurich Airport and Flughafen Zurich in 2010.

Zurich Airport completed a major expansion project in 2003, 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.

Flughafen Zurich Airport AG used the brand name Unique from 2000 until 2010.

Zurich Airport has three airside piers, which are known as terminals A, B, and E .

Zurich Airport is served by the A51 motorway and other main roads, which link to the airport's own road network.

Rescue service at Zurich Airport was established around 1982 as the original "fire-fighting ambulance".