The Zurich airport is good in some ways, but its f...

The Zurich airport is good in some ways, but its faults are annoying enough that I must give the lowest score.

Almost every airport I go through has free WiFi available. Zurich makes you go find a machine to scan your boarding pass to get 2 hours of free WiFi.

I had a 40 minute layover in Zurich in which I really hoped to talk to my family and do some planning. I had to run to my gate and didn't get a chance to scan my boarding pass on one of the very few machines. In the end I waited 20 minutes in the gate or so, and didn't have a chance to connect at all.

On the way back I had a 5 hour layover. The free WiFi expired after 2 hours, and an extra hour was $7. I can't believe in 2019 we are charging $7/hour in an airport for WiFi.

The second concern was water fountains. I always carry my own bottle to reduce waste, keep water cooler, etc. I searched everywhere for a place to re-fill it in the Zurich airport and failed. If they have them they must be pretty well hidden.

For the people saying "#1 airport", visit Singapore or Incheon.