Zurich Airport Observation Deck — Why Don’t More Airports Have This?!

I have been to Zurich Airport deck twice and love it; not just the views, but the friendly people you come into contact with. Can’t wait to fly there again. My local airport Heathrow has no viewing deck and treats spotters and photographers as if they are children, what a difference to Zurich, Frankfurt, Munich, Amsterdam and others.

I went to Zurich, when they were building the new terminal/viewing deck and manage to get to the middle terminal, that viewing deck was 100% better than the new one, every plane passed close to the viewing deck and no eye straining trying to read registration numbers on planes taking off on runway 28/10. also sadly after the lunchtime rush hour, there is very little movement, to go back again, I would go to the midfield viewing deck. To get there I walked to the local bus stop`s and there was little checkpoint building, got searched paid the fee and then a bus took me to the entry door to get to the viewing deck. There was vending machines that dispensed hot drinks and snacks.

Schiphol has a great one too

@AlexD If Daniel can't handle harsh criticisms he has no place posting on the internet in the first place, second I don't sugar coat things period. The real world does not have safe spaces and trigger words. When a blogger simply write: or you can purchase it at the following prices: And post a photo, and a bad one at that he is lazy. I would have taken him very little effort to add the numbers. Had he simply said the entrance is in the photo below and not mention anything about prices I would have been more than happy to add that small detail with no sarcastic comments. There are several reasons newspapers and book publishers have editors, one of them is to stop writers taking lazy short cut like this. While blogs and the web in general has meant that there is more content than ever out there on just about every subject, sadly a side effect is a distinct lowering of the quality of said content. @William Y It suffer from a good number of medical conditions, and yes some of them literately hurt quite a lot 24/7. Painkillers help, thank you for asking. For me 5 CHF would not be a hindering factor if I wanted to stand outside and suck in jet fumes, for being Switzerland that is down right cheap. Now consider the fact that there is people that willingly gets on board ULCC's like RyanAir or Vueling or Easyjet more than once where a tickets routinely costs as low as 70 CHF or lower when booked in advance. Generally the same crowd that complains that there is no free water on their flights. 2 of those airlines fly into ZRH, I have never personally flown either of them and have no desire to. You seem to forget that there are people behind the premium cabins or gasp flying on planes without any premium seats at all. I know it's pain to see them at times, but such is the world of public transport unfortunately. Perhaps you can serve them some of your leftover cake Marie? Also I'm probably a pedantic, luckily I don't suffer from being a brown nose. You seems to have a terrible case of that condition.

"Even normal people LOVE spending time at outdoor places like this in airports". I love the "NORMAL" people expression! LOL! Hahahaha! Otherwise, ZRH is perfect for short/medium haul flights and if you're traveling for a conference, you can stay at the airport hotel -, have your conference there, hop on a train for a 15-minutes ride to the city at the evening! Very convenient!