Visit to the Rega Headquarters
- Meeting place: Zurich Main Station (below angel)
- When: 2024-03-18 17:00:00
- Description:
1414 is a numerical order every Swiss person knows. It is the phone number of the Swiss Air Rescue Guard (Rega), which was established in 1952.
With its 14 helicopter bases all around Switzerland, Rega can reach every location within 15 minutes time. The helicopters enable rescue missions in pathless and steep areas and Rega ambulance jets also fly people from abroad back to Switzerland in case of emergency. In the year 2022, Rega flew over 20'000 missions. The headquarters of Rega is based at Zurich Airport. That's the place we are going to visit! On our guided tour, we are going to see the hangar, the ambulance jets and the Operations center among other things.
We're going to meet at Zurich main station (underneath the angel in the main hall) at 17:00.
The guided tour at the Rega centre is going to be free of charge, but please buy your own train/bus ticket from Zurich HB to "Zürich Flughafen, Rega" and back to Zurich again.
The guided tour takes around two houres and starts at 17:45. We should make it back to Zurich until 20:15.Zürich HB -> Zürich Flughafen, Rega (17:14 - 17:35)
Zürich Flughafen -> Zürich HB (19:54 - 20:16)
Disclaimer: we have a BLACKLIST. The tickets are personalised and you need to be sure to come when you register for this event. Please make sure to deregister 72h in advance in emergencies or sickness if you can't make it to the event (in case of more recent emergencies you can contact Ari). Otherwise you will be barred from events for the next two weeks, and removed from any events you were registered for during that period. Thank you!