Zurich Airport: Difference between revisions

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{{infobox|fullname=Zurich Airport|location=Zurich, Switzerland|iata=ZRH|icao=LSZH|aptype=Commercial|website=www.flughafen-zuerich.ch|mapurl=|mapsource=|atctower=118.1|atcground=121.850 (North)

120.750 (North/East) via AMIKI/RILAX<br />119.700<br>125.325 Final (rarely used):|atcdeparture=125.950|atcatis=128.525 (phone: +41438162294)|atcunicom=}}

<tr><td>34</td><td>2700m</td><td>ILS</td><td>Landing rwy morning, sometimes heavy-TOs</td><td>medium</td></tr>

<tr><td width="100">Terminal 1 (A)</td><td width="75">&nbsp;</td><td width="500">This terminal is mostly used by Swiss. Many longhaul flights (A332/A343) are being handled here aswell as some european flights (A32X, RJ). Besides Swiss sometimes other European carriers can be found here, for example BA.<br>

<tr><td>Terminal 2 (B)</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td>Terminal 2 was closed when Terminal E was opened and the finger docks were demounted. Now this terminal is mostly being used to park longhaulers which stay for a longer time. For example SAA A342, Malasian B777, or the MNG A300F. On the southern side there are new stands for regional aircrafts (CRJs, ERJs, ...) which are served by bus. (Lufthansa, Alitalia, Air France)<br>

<tr><td>Terminal E (Midfield)</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td width="840" colspan="2">The terminal opened in 2003 is the point where all longhaul flights of foreign airlines are handled. (UAE, SIA, MAS, UAL, AAL, DAL, COA, ACA, KAL, SAA, JAL). Also there are some longhauls of Swiss (mostly to the USA) as well as most European carriers here..<br>

<u>Best view from:</u> Spotting Point <b>2</b>, but only the aircrafts on the western side of the terminal which is about 1/3 of all aircrafts.<br><br></td></tr>

<tr><td>Mike-Stands</td><td>&nbsp;</td><td width="840" colspan="2">South of Terminal 2 there are the Mike-Stands (designated C and D but served by Taxiway Mike). These are stands served by bus. On these stands mostly medium airliners (A32X, B737, MD8X) von DLH, SAS, AUA and IBE can be spotted.

<br><u>Best view from::</u> Spotting Point <b>1</b> (a little far away) and <b>5</b></td></tr>

==Traffic==

Besides the big european carriers which usually send their standard medium equipment to Zurich, many big carriers from other continents can be seen here arriving with their heavies. Some of these are:

American, Continental, Delta, Emirates, JAL, Malaysian, Singapore, South African, Thai, United. In addition to that you have the Swiss lognhaul-fleet (9 A332 + 9 A343) as well as the heavies of local charter airlines Edelweiss (1 A332) and Belair (1 B763) which you don't see that often in Europe.

Peter Frei/Aerpix.net provides us with an excellent service as he always lists the specials of the next day on his homepage, available from 19.00LT. [http://www.aerpix.net/00-system/zrhpreview.htm aerpix.net]

<tr><td>Singapore</td><td>SIA346/345</td><td>Singapore</td><td>06.30</td><td>13.25</td><td>B744</td><td>1234567</td></tr>

<tr><td>Swiss</td><td>SWR96/97</td><td>Sao Paulo</td><td>11.05</td><td>22.30</td><td>A343</td><td>dep: -234-67  arr: 1-3456-</td></tr>

Until this article is finished, please take a look at the detailed spotting-description on  [http://www.planepics.org/zurich_spot_en.html www.planepics.org]