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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Famous quotes containing the word traffic:
“There was a girl who was running the traffic desk, and there was a woman who was on the overnight for radio as a producer, and my desk assistant was a woman. So when the world came to an end, we took over.”
—Marya McLaughlin, U.S. television newswoman. As quoted in Women in Television News, ch. 3, by Judith S. Gelfman (1976)
“There’s something about the dead silence of an office building at night. Not quite real. The traffic down below is something that didn’t have anything to do with me.”
—John Paxton (1911–1985)
“Poems stirred
into paper coffee-cups, eaten
with petals on rye in the
sun—the cold shadows in back,
and the traffic grinding the
borders of spring ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)