4 Aircraft movements

Aircraft movements: scheduled and charter traffic

Takeoffs and landings

T4.1

2000 2005 2010 2015 2019 2020
Total airports 537 813 418 956 416 111 460 978 469 667 166 758
Total national airports 509 584 404 428 404 921 445 349 465 030 165 882
 Zurich 291 044 229 982 227 815 231 095 243 115 83 081
 Geneva 118 950 116 545 123 173 146 440 145 527 53 854
 Basel-
Mulhouse 1 		99 590 57 901 53 933 67 814 76 388 28 947
Total regional airports 28 229 14 528 11 190 15 629 4 637 876
 Bern-Belp 12 489 4 128 3 486 7 928 326 95
 Lugano-Agno 12 017 7 741 5 479 5 397 2 107 40
 Sion 530 80 92 572 129 113
 St.Gallen-
Altenrhein		 3 193 2 579 2 133 1 732 2 075 628

1 Swiss and French traffic

Source: FSO, FOCA – Aviation, scheduled and charter traffic (AVIA_LC)

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Total aircraft movements in civil aviation, 2020

Takeoffs and landings, including general aviation

T4.2

Commercial flights Non
commercial
flights		 Total
Aeroplane 2 Helicopter
Total airports
and airfields 		219 393 98 406 734 364 1 052 163
Total national airports 199 043 4 150 45 475 248 668
 Zurich 97 079 600 13 639 111 318
 Geneva 70 800 1 549 14 000 86 349
 Basel-Mulhouse 1 31 164 2 001 17 836 51 001
Total regional airports 14 591 20 263 280 656 315 510
 Bern-Belp 2 381 3 457 36 614 42 452
 Lugano-Agno 1 236 592 12 942 14 770
 Sion 3 956 7 671 26 206 37 833
 St.Gallen-Altenrhein 3 034 57 20 759 23 850
 Birrfeld 418 2 302 52 770 55 490
 Bressaucourt 29 10 6 495 6 534
 Écuvillens 0 2 21 014 21 016
 Grenchen 145 8 52 150 52 303
 La Chaux-de-Fonds-Les Éplatures 935 37 9 069 10 041
 Lausanne-
La Blécherette		 454 1 377 33 967 35 798
 Samedan 2 003 4 750 8 670 15 423
Total airfields 5 759 73 993 408 233 487 985

1 Swiss and French traffic
2 powered planes (without powered glider)

Source: FSO, FOCA – Civil aviation statistics (AVIA_ZL)

© FSO 2021