Air traffic Zurich Airport with significantly more air traffic in September

Significantly more aircraft took off and landed at Zurich Airport in September than in the same period last year. The figures are therefore only just below the level before the coronavirus crisis.

A total of 23,587 take-offs and landings were registered at Zurich Airport in September. This is 2.6 and 1.0 percent less than in the vacation months of July and August. Nevertheless, September is still the month with the third highest number of aircraft movements in the current year.

Compared to the same month last year, significantly more aircraft took off and landed: aircraft movements increased by a whopping 11.2% compared to September 2024, as an analysis of data from the news agency AWP shows. In absolute figures, this means an increase of 2380 flights.

This is not much short of the pre-crisis level of September 2019: at 23,868 take-offs and landings, there were only 1.2% more movements than in September of this year.

The flight movement figures at Zurich Airport are based on statistics that are updated daily and include all flights under instrument flight rules. This so-called IFR traffic includes scheduled flights as well as cargo, business and private flights. However, the number of flight movements says nothing about the size of the aircraft handled and their capacity utilization.

Zurich Airport will publish detailed passenger and traffic figures for the month of September on October 10.

SDA