Europe - Zurich airport / rail connection

Hi all

We have an easyJet flight to Zurich that gets in at 13.45 and a train we'd like to catch at 14.13 (or, failing that, it will have to be 15.13).

What's involved in getting from airport to train station at Zurich and have we any hope at all of getting the 14.13, bearing in mind we'll still have to collect luggage and get through passport control, or is that just too much wishful thinking?

Thanks.

*Without* luggage (and assuming a Swiss/EU passport) it would be tight. And it would only take the slightest of delays or issues to make it fundamentlly impossible. Indeed, it could easily be said to be impossible already, even with no-luggage.

Remember you are scheduled to land at 13:45, not get off the aircraft then.

I don't actually know where the easyjet flights park at ZRH, although I've done plenty of BA and star alliance from the UK to ZRH (and also from elsewhere into ZRH).

Luggage is usually quite fast in ZRH, but I'd say not a chance for a 14:13 train.

But at the same time, you could arrive 10 mins early, be straight onto stand, have fast luggage and be across, collected, through and out by 14:00.

If there is a cost to missing the train, then I'd certainly not book the 14:13. And generally I'd NOT expect to make that train anyway.

[But as I said, I've no experience of U2 at ZRH.]

Thank you.

I believe my ticket will allow me to get either train so no problem there.

Is it easy to get from the airport luggage collection/passport control to the rail station?

I believe my ticket will allow me to get either train so no problem there.

Yes it will, tickets in Switzerland are valid on a day. So no matter which train you take (just one exception, for the nighttime network there is an additional fee of 5 CHF)


Is it easy to get from the airport luggage collection/passport control to the rail station?

Yes it is, the rail station is located in the check-in 3 area. Just follow the signs after the baggage claim & customs. And you will find it ;)

Thank you.

I believe my ticket will allow me to get either train so no problem there.

Is it easy to get from the airport luggage collection/passport control to the rail station?

As you walk out of the terminal, you cross the "street" into what looks like a shopping mall. Downstairs is the airport train station. It's like a five minute walk if you walk slowly :)

Back before Switzerland was in the Schengen zone, I think the fastest I ever got to the train station was half an hour, without luggage. And it has taken much longer -- a couple of times the police were checking passports on the jetway as you exited the plane! As others have said, shoot for the later train.

And just to be clear, your 14.13 or 15.13 train is from the airport train station? If it's the main Zürich HB station you may have trouble making the 15.13 (depending on how long you have to wait for a train at the airport)

Thank you for all your help.

And yes, it's from the airport train station. :)

Yes it will, tickets in Switzerland are valid on a day. So no matter which train you take (just one exception, for the nighttime network there is an additional fee of 5 CHF)

Except that there are sometimes Web-bookable special tickets that *are* train specific.

Not good to get it wrong, as the fine is CHF 80, I believe, though officially there's supposed to be some leniency for confused tourists.

Neil

Except that there are sometimes Web-bookable special tickets that *are* train specific.

Not good to get it wrong, as the fine is CHF 80, I believe, though officially there's supposed to be some leniency for confused tourists.

Neil

Ah ok, I have never seen these special tickets so far...

AFAIK the fine is now 100 CHF.

Ah ok, I have never seen these special tickets so far...

AFAIK the fine is now 100 CHF.

Periodically they offer "supersaver" tickets--valid only on specific trains and dates. On the "mainline" trains the fine is (now) 100SF, but on many of the commuter (regional) lines it is still 80SF.