Originally Posted by speech
Part of it was the way the swiss authorities mishandled absurd requests from the Germans to please a few hundred peasants. I think they had a strong case: a choice between low overflying of a 1 million people conurbation or overflying at a higher altitude a sparsely populated area.
An agreement freely entered into IIRC, limiting the number of overflights of German territory. The number of flights increased to a level of 4(?) times that agreed and finally the Germans said enough.
At least ZRH now has ILS approaches that they can use to 28 and 34. As for the noise that the burgers of ZRH have to endure, well it's their airport, they want to fly from it why should the Germans have to put up with the noise.
NIMBYism or what.