ZRH Zurich

How deep the ZRH board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from ZRH. This reads the same 223 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 124of the 223 destinations are flown by one airline
• 109destinations run less than once a day
• 36destinations have four or more departures a day
• 39%of the destinations name SWISS, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at ZRH

118 airlines appear on the ZRH board and they do not hold it evenly. SWISS is on 87 of the 223 destinations, 39 per cent of them, and on 29 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 329.4 of the 457.1 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Edelweiss Air on 74 destinations. 79 of the 118 airlines at ZRH appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

That is a middling concentration at ZRH: one airline on 39 per cent of the destinations and the other 61 per cent spread across 117 airlines. A cancellation inside the SWISS network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 136 destinations SWISS does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the ZRH board is daily

Of the 223 destinations, 114 are flown at least once a day and 109 are not, 37 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the ZRH board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: ZRH to Zadar (ZAD) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 63.9 of the 457.1 departures a day, 14 per cent of the whole board. The other 218 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at ZRH usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Algiers ALG	Algeria	Air Algerie	1	1,276	plan this
Almaty ALA	Kazakhstan	Comlux Malta	1	5,191	the pair page
Antwerp ANR	Belgium	Flying Group Luxembourg	1	509	plan this
Augsburg AGB	Germany	NetJets Europe	1	207	plan this
Baden-Baden FKB	Germany	SFG	1	150	plan this
Bolzano BZO	Italy	NetJets Europe	1	239	plan this
Brussels CRL	Belgium	PGC	1	447	plan this
Cancún CUN	Mexico	Edelweiss Air	1	8,693	plan this
Cannes/Mandelieu CEQ	France	Gestair	1	454	plan this
Cape Town CPT	South Africa	Edelweiss Air	1	9,110	plan this

The ten destinations out of ZRH where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 78 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from ZRH

The desk holds the return direction for 144 of the 223 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On eleven of them the return into ZRH runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Seville (SVQ) at 0.43 out a day against 0.14 back, San José (SJO) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back and Skopje (SKP) at 3.1 out a day against 1.7 back.

It runs the other way as well: London (LCY) files 6.1 a day back into ZRH against 0.29 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at ZRH

ZRH keeps Europe/Zurich time, two hours behind Dubai in summer and three hours behind in winter, because the clock here moves and the Gulf clock does not.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 07:00 at ZRH, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at ZRH and still make a departure the same day.

The night at ZRH

ZRH carries a documented restriction, checked 2026-09-07. Scheduled movements end at 23:00 local, with delayed flights permitted until 23:30. Nothing scheduled before 06:00. That is a hole of seven hours in the middle of the night. A movement that misses the last slot before 23:00 does not go until 06:00, and the courier spends the night here rather than at the other end.

15 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from ZRH that lands inside it leaves around 22:05, on a modelled block of 0h 55m. Into Berlin (BER) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from ZRH that lands inside it leaves around 20:33, on a modelled block of 1h 27m. Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from ZRH that lands inside it leaves around 22:50, on a modelled block of 1h 40m. Those three departure times out of ZRH are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where ZRH turns up on the rest of this site

ZRH carries two other pages on this site as well: the Switzerland country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the ZRH transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 54 airport pair pages that start or end at ZRH, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Zurich to Berlin (BER), Zurich to London (LHR) and Zurich to Amsterdam (AMS).

Ten of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Abu Dhabi to Zurich, Boston to Zurich and Doha to Zurich. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at ZRH written out.

14 courier postings name ZRH as the airport a courier here flies from: Bern, Winterthur and Luzern.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with ZRH already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 223 destinations above.