Originally Posted by
noah
You should be able to construct your own itinerary by looking for multi-city options. This should enable you to avoid the hell that is connecting at FRA (unless of course you are flying LH F) and instead connect at an airport like AMS or CDG (which is typically to be avoided but is easy to connect between *A carriers).
Between any two *A hubs, in this case ORD & ZRH, there are any number of possible connecting points several of which aren't *A hubs.
In the case of ORD-ZRH, the following points all work with single connections:
AMS, ARN, BRU, BOS, CDG, CPH, DUB, DUS, EWR, FRA, GVA, IAD, IST, JFK, LHR, MUC, VIE, WAW, YUL, YYZ
And there are many more options when one adds in double connections.