Zurich Airport

Zurich has transformed itself. It is now a remarkable user friendly efficient airport. Security is a breeze particularly for C and F pax. Never a line. Even at rush hour passport control is quick. I find I can start at my hotel in downtown Zurich (near Rennweg) walk to the train station hop on the train arrive at the airport clear security and be in the SWISS Senator Lounge all in 30 minutes total. I can't think of another major airport that can match that.

It might just be too big for it's own good. Fantastic layout and shops/restaurants are neatly integrated into the look of the place. Splendid. No free wi-fi absolutely horrible not giving this for free. Shops are expensive Switzerland style but the chocolate stores looks smashing. Everything went very smoothly indeed during my travel. Not much queuing but perhaps a bit too much walking and travelling between terminals as it felt like it wasn't very much needed. However this airport hits the top mark from all the airports I've been to. Would love another connection at ZRH.

Very convenient as usual. Quick security and immigration many smoking rooms clean quick baggage delivery nice shops and other facilities.

The transit at Zurich airport is a nightmare we had 50 minutes to transfer to E gates. First the train connecting the terminals all coaches cannot be accessed as the platform is divided and half the train stops on the other side. On arrival at E gates the security queue was long and slow there was NO priority lane for business/First class passengers no one to help you through. We would have nearly missed our flight made it with 2 minutes to spare. Overall experience not conducive to good health.

I'm flying roughly 40 flights from ZRH. I agree with one of the previous posters stating that ZRH used to be convenient until E gates opened. I had hoped the new centralized security control would lead to an improvement. The improvement is to put it nicely rather marginal. The main issue are still waiting times a security control (including priority lanes) immigration and for the Heidi train to/from E gates. Despite some advantages such as cleanliness ZRH can't compete with - say - AMS CPH MAD MUC VIE - just to mention a few in its league.

Too big for its own good takes far too long to get from one gate to another for connections. Major hub in a city with a night ban is always a problem no free wi-fi and far too many duty-free hawkers and not enough convenience kiosks.

JNB-ZRH-SOF return. Very clean and well-organised airport. Transfer is a dream. Immigration and security are efficiently done and relatively quick. I found airport staff quite friendly and helpful. Signage is good and transfer between the two terminals is quick with the underground train. There are lots of duty free shops but be aware that pretty much all are high-end designer brands and quite expensive. Food and everything else is generally very expensive (you are in Switzerland after all).

Nice Airport to start and end a journey but not good for transit. Flying SIN-ZRH-FRA arrived with Swiss in the morning with a delay and needed to run to get the connection to FRA. Not a nice treatment for First Class passengers after a long haul flight why couldn't there be a car pick up for priority pax like at the beginning of the journey? Unfortunately an hour later I was in FRA but my luggage was still in Zurich but they could manage to get it to my home 1 day later.

In general a good airport but if you have a flight leaving to i.e. London on Swiss you have to use those shabby and dingy old B gates until the new terminal is done and you have to be bussed to the gate which is annoying. I don't understand why Swiss cannot use the E gates until the new terminal is open. Also check-in staff are usually not friendly and can be a bit snotty regardless what airline and class you fly. As they are now also changing the security checks in the E terminal you have to walk a long detour to pass security. It's still a good airport but you can also see that they are expanding and are no longer that small and efficient airport of the past.

I was on a return BRU-ZRH-YUL a few weeks ago and it was my first time in ZRH. I found the airport well-designed and the subway ride between gates A and gates E was pleasant and certainly original. The gates were roomy and despite the airport being extremely crowded as it was summer vacation I found the experience more than ok. I prefer a connection in ZRH to a connection in CDG or LHR. So far I have flown to many airports in both Europe and North America and I found ZRH one of the most user-friendly along with BRU.