Has never been so calm



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Flight operations at Zurich airport have plummeted to lockdown level, Swiss and the airport are burning millions of francs every day. But there is also good news: aircraft noise is decreasing.

Machine out of service on airport site: Aircraft movements have almost returned to lockdown level in spring.

Machine out of service on airport site: Aircraft movements have almost returned to lockdown level in spring.

Christoph Ruckstuhl / NZZ

Economics director Carmen Walker Späh (n.d.) saved her most important message for the end of her remarks. It was a kind of warning. “I know that there are also people who are happy because the noise has dropped. But it would be very shortsighted and very dangerous to wish this to be the new normal. “The economic effects may not yet be obvious to everyone, but they are severe, not just in tourism, where the absence of passengers results in empty hotel beds. Tens of thousands of jobs were associated with the “airport ecosystem”.

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