Hey Guys!

I understand that this may be going back in time a bit, but I was wondering if I may get some suggestions and information from you with respect to Switzerland preparing it’s airport infrastructure for the soccer championships.

Currently Poland is preparing for the EURO 2012 Soccer Championships. I was wonder if you could post some photographs, articles (in English), data and other information about Switzerland’s strategy in preparing airports (airport infrastructure) for the games. Any information will be helpful! Whether it’s temporary solutions such as provisional terminal structures , large/small investments, ground handling etc.

All information regarding preparing your nation’s airport infrastructure for the EURO 2008 would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you Sincerely!

Guys please, this is very important to me.

Guys please, this is very important to me.

Keep cool Janek!

We've got four International Airports (Basel, Geneva, Zurich -> Intercontinental; Bern -> Continental) in a very small area.
I think that it was not neccessary to invest in temporary solutions. This Airports were/are enough big to absorb the extra passengers for EURO 08.
Anyway, the Infrastructur in Switzerland is excellent (Highways, Train & Airports) that we had only small investments due to the EURO 08.

^^ I agree, there where mostly preparation for extra security. I don't remember any extra infrastructure being build on the airports.

There were no extra investments in airports, transport infrastructure or anything else in general. The existing facilities were enough.

There were a few extra trains running between host cities/stadiums (also between Switzerland and Austria) like it is always the case when events are happening.

The stadiums themselves were also built before/independently of Euro 2008. Switzerland joined the bid with Austria because all infrastructures did already exist - otherwise Switzerland wouldn't have co-organised it.

The only issue was the the football stadium (Hardturm) in Zurich. It was planned to be rebuilt already since the middle of the 90-ies. At the time the bid was launched (ca. 2002), it looked like it will be rebuilt very soon. But then neighbourhood opposition stopped the project and the renovelling of the athletics stadium (Letzigrund) that was also planned to be rebuilt since the 90-ies was put on the fast track and rebuilt at an earlier stage than initially planned in order to have one stadium finished for Euro 2008 in time.

So, Euro 2008 didn't change anything except that the new Letzigrund was built too fast and now they seem to have problems with roof statics.