There was at the time no mission compliant, long range Ambulance ICU Jet anywhere available including, except for one of four Swiss Air Ambulance Challenger Jets, based half way around the globe at the REGA HQ, Zurich International Airport in Switzerland.

Both Zurich Airport and railway station are the largest and busiest in the country.

* December 18 – Flight SATA 730, an international charter service from Zurich to Funchal Airport ( Madeira ), touches the sea in a landing attempt.

* Zurich Airport, Switzerland = main hub of SWISS

* One passenger on board a flight from Brussels to Zurich was killed on 19 December of the same year, when the aircraft ( a CV-240 registered OO-AWO ) hit the ground 2. 5 km short of the runway threshold of Kloten Airport at 18: 55 local time.

It was headquartered at Zurich Airport and in Kloten.

* Zurich International Airport

Sometimes, the annual Erstsemestrigenfest takes place at extraordinary locations, for example the Zurich Airport.

Airbus A310-200 of Cyprus Airways at Zurich Airport in 1985

* SBB codeshares with American Airlines and Swiss International Airlines out of Zurich International Airport in Zurich.

In June 2010, Swiss International Airlines began service from San Francisco to Zurich Airport.

Zurich Airport, also known as Kloten Airport, is Switzerland's largest international airport, and the principal hub of Swiss International Air Lines.

The next largest event for the airport was in 1999, when the Parliament of the Canton of Zurich approved privatization of Zurich Airport.

In 2003, Zurich Airport completed a major expansion project in which it built a new parking garage, a new midfield terminal, and an automated underground train to move passengers between the existing terminal complex and the new terminal.

On July 2, 2011, Edelweiss Air flying on behalf of Swiss International Airlines began weekly service from Orlando to Zurich Airport.

Tivat Airport is away, and there are regular flights to Belgrade and Zurich, and dozens of charter planes land daily at Tivat airport during the summer season.

** Zurich Airport

An Air Namibia Airbus A340-300 at Zurich Airport in 2006.

Winterthur is connected to Germany and Italy by direct trains and enjoys links to Zurich Airport.

* February 18 – Four members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine attack El Al Flight 432, a Boeing 720-058B with 28 people on board, with AK-47 assault rifles and hand grenades while it is preparing for takeoff at Zurich Airport in Zurich, Switzerland, mortally wounding the first officer and injuring six other people.

Aarau is situated on the Swiss plateau, in the valley of the Aar, on the river's right bank, and at the southern foot of the Jura mountains, and is west of Zurich.

The urban center lies in the middle of the " Golden Triangle " between Zurich, Bern, and Basel, and Aarau is having increasing difficulty in maintaining the independence of its economic base from the neighboring large cities.

A close collaboration between the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers and ICVR at ETH Zurich is being established.

In the years prior to World War I similar art had already risen in Bucharest and other Eastern European cities ; it is likely that DADA's catalyst was the arrival in Zurich of artists like Tzara and Janco.

The InterCityExpress or ICE is a type of high-speed train operated by Deutsche Bahn in Germany and large cities in neighbouring countries, such as Zurich, Vienna, Copenhagen, Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels.

Geneva (;, ;, ) is the second most populous city in Switzerland ( after Zurich ) and is the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

and a 2009 survey by Mercer found Geneva to have the third-highest quality of life of any city in the world ( behind Vienna and Zurich ; it is narrowly outranked by Zurich ).

In cryptography, the International Data Encryption Algorithm ( IDEA ) is a block cipher designed by James Massey of ETH Zurich and Xuejia Lai and was first described in 1991.

Oberon is a programming language created in 1986 by Professor Niklaus Wirth ( creator of the Pascal, Modula, and Modula-2 programming languages ) and his associates at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

The only woman to exceed 5 metres is Russian women's world-record holder Yelena Isinbayeva, who reached that height in 2005 and who has in total broken the women's world-record ( indoor and outdoor ), 27 times, culminating in her current world record of 5. 06 metres obtained in 2009 at Letzigrund in Zurich.

Almost 20 % of all conscripts were found unfit for military or civilian service in 2008 ; the rate is generally higher in urban cantons such as Zurich and Geneva than in the rural ones.

* 1946 – The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.

Zurich ( German: Zürich, ; Swiss German: Züri ) is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich.

Zurich is a hub for railways, roads, and air traffic.

Zurich is a leading global city and among the world's largest financial centres.

The city is called Zurich in French, Zurigo in Italian, and Turitg in Romansh.

In English, the name is usually written Zurich, without the umlaut.

Zurich is sometimes referred to as " Downtown Switzerland " for publicity reasons.

The blue and white coat of arms of Zurich is attested from 1389, and was derived from banners with blue and white stripes in use since 1315.

As of 2010, the Zurich City Council is made up of four representatives of the SDP ( Social Democratic Party, one of whom is the mayor ), two members of the FDP ( Free Democratic Party ), two members of the Green Party and one member of the CVP ( Christian Democratic Party ).

Lugano is Switzerland's third largest financial center after Zurich and Geneva.

The Union Bank of Switzerland's principal office at Bahnhofstrasse | Bahnhofstrasse 45 in Zurich served as the headquarters for the combined bank.

The city is Switzerland's third largest banking centre after Zurich and Geneva.

Gabriel Narutowicz (; 1865 – 1922 ) was a Lithuanian-born professor of hydroelectric engineering at Switzerland's Zurich Polytechnic, Minister of Public Works in Poland ( 1920 – 21 ), Minister of Foreign Affairs ( 1922 ), and the first president of the Second Polish Republic.

SIX Swiss Exchange ( formerly SWX Swiss Exchange ), based in Zurich, is Switzerland's principal stock exchange ( the other being Berne eXchange ).

Lenzburg is an important transportation hub and is only 25 km from Zurich, with close access to the A1, Switzerland's most important east-west road connection.

It was started in 1881 and later developed by Karl Schweri just after the Second World War, it later made Switzerland's first discounter in 1967 in Zurich.

Sutter began his career in 1985 with Grasshoppers Zurich, one of Switzerland's most storied clubs.