Terminal A looked completely deserted.
We took a few minutes to use the washrooms to freshen up, before following the signs in the terminal to get to our gate.
We were in Terminal A, used only for Schengen flights within Europe. We had to get to Terminal E, a separate standalone terminal building in use for international / non-Schengen flights.
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This was a large airport, and it felt slightly surreal to be speedwalking through an empty terminal.
How different from hubs like FRA, DXB, LHR or SIN, where, at this hour, the airport would be a madhouse of arriving, departing and connecting pax...
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Needless to say, no shops were open. We eventually reached passport control, which we had to pass through to get to Terminal E, where the E gates were.
Thankfully, at this hour, the passport control area was completely empty, and we, and most of the other connecting pax, breezed through without any delay.
From the size of the airport, I was a little concerned that we might have to walk all the way, from Terminal A to Terminal E, but thankfully there was an underground people mover that would take us from A to E.
We boarded the train...
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Doors closed, and we were off...
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We got off the People mover at the E gates, and by then some of the other pax must have been pressed for time, as they raced out of the train and began bounding up the long escalators...
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"We have lots of time...no need to run...", I told Mrs yflyer and Miss yflyer no. 2.
It was now 10.16pm...from the signs the E gates were just 5 min walk away...
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Almost there...
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I think everyone on our flight should have made their connections.
So it was quite feasible to do a 40 minute connection in ZRH.
As long as your inbound flight wasn't delayed (And that was quite an assumption), you would be ok. Not a particularly stress-free experience, but it could be done as long as you didn't dawdle...
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