Traffic
The airport lost a lot of traffic when Swissair shut down its operations. Since Lufthansa took over its successor Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS), traffic has started growing again. There are three runways on in operation and runway 14/32 is a unidirectional runway as it sits to the far north outskirts of the field. Zurich Airport handled 24.34 million passengers in 2011.
| Rank | Airport | Total Passengers | Airlines |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | London (Heathrow, Gatwick, City, Luton) | 1,637,500 | Swiss, British Airways, easyJet |
| 2 | Vienna | 859,800 | Swiss, Austrian Airlines, Niki |
| 3 | Berlin | 853,000 | Swiss, Air Berlin |
| 4 | Paris | 716,700 | Swiss, Air France |
| 5 | Düsseldorf | 700,000 | Swiss, Air Berlin, Lufthansa |
| 6 | Amsterdam | 663,300 | Swiss, KLM |
| 7 | Frankfurt | 626,800 | Swiss, Lufthansa |
| 8 | Hamburg | 612,100 | Swiss, Air Berlin, Lufthansa |
| 9 | New York, (Newark Airport, JFK Airport) | 586,100 | Swiss, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Airlines |
| 10 | Barcelona | 520,200 | Swiss, Vueling |
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