On March 12, 2024, Swiss airport, Zurich, released its February 2024 traffic figures. Lets take a dive into them.
This article will cover the details surrounding Zurich Airport’s (ZRH) February 2024 traffic figures, comparing to previous years.
Zurich’s Strong February
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To kick things off, during February 2024, Zurich Airport (ZRH), handled a total of 2,017,326 passengers.
This figure represents an increase of 16% when compared to 2023 figures, and is also 99% of what was saw in 2019.
Breaking this figure down, 1,367,318 were local passengers and the other 645,674 were transfer passengers.
Flights & Freight
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Taking a dive into the above infographic, the Switzerland airport handled 17,764 take-offs and landings. Representing a 12% increase from 2023 and sitting at 90% of 2019 levels.
In terms of average passenger per movement figure, this increased to 130, up 1% when compared to 2023.
However, the average load factor had fallen by 1% down to 77% this year as opposed to 78% in 2023.
In terms of freight, Zurich Airport (ZRH) handled 34,053 tons during February. This is a 7% increase when compared to 2023, however, is still down 6% from 2019 levels.
Operators
Zurich is served by a vast array of different operators, both passenger and dedicated freighter services. From a passenger perspective, the operators are as follows –
- Aegean Airlines from Greece.
- Aer Lingus from Ireland.
- Air Cairo from Egypt.
- Air Canada from Canada.
- Air Corsica from Corsica
- Air Europa from Spain.
- Air France from France.
- Air Malta from Malta.
- Air Serbia from Serbia.
- airBaltic from Latvia.
- American Airlines from U.S.A.
- AnadoluJet from Turkey.
- Austrian Airlines from Austria.
- BeOnd from the Maldives.
- British Airways from the United Kingdom.
- Brussels Airlines from Belgium.
- Bulgaria Air from Bulgaria.
- Cathay Pacific from Hong Kong.
- Chair Airlines based in Zurich.
- Condor from Germany.
- Corendon Airlines from Turkey.
- Croatia Airlines from Croatia.
- Cyprus Airways from Cyprus.
- Delta Air Lines from U.S.A.
- easyJet from the United Kingdom.
- Edelweiss Air based in Zurich.
- El Al from Israel.
- Emirates from U.A.E.
- Ethiopian Airlines from Ethiopia.
- Etihad Airways from U.A.E.
- Eurowings from Germany.
- Finnair from Finland.
- Helvetic Airways based in Zurich.
- Iberia from Spain.
- Icelandair from Iceland.
- Israir Airlines from Israel.
- ITA Airways from Italy.
- KLM from the Netherlands.
- Korean Air from South Korea.
- LOT Polish Airlines from Poland.
- Lufthansa from Germany.
- Oman Air from Oman.
- Pegasus Airlines from Turkey.
- Qatar Airways from Qatar.
- Royal Jordanian from Jordan.
- Saudia from Saudi Arabia.
- SAS Scandinavian Airlines from Sweden.
- Singapore Airlines from Singapore.
- Southwind Airlines from Turkey.
- SunExpress from Turkey.
- Swiss International Air Lines home base in Zurich.
- Tailwind Airlines from Turkey.
- TAP Air Portugal from Portugal.
- Thai Airways International from Thailand.
- Tunisair from Tunisia.
- Turkish Airlines from Turkey.
- United Airlines from U.S.A.
- Vueling from Spain.
Finally, in terms of their cargo operators, Zurich only gets two dedicated freighter operators, they are Korean Air Cargo and Turkish Cargo.
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