A transfer request can contain a plausible hour and still describe the wrong journey. Common causes include entering a boarding time as a pickup, using the first flight of a connection, or selecting the departure date in your home country for an overnight arrival in Switzerland. Give each field one clear meaning and use the airport’s local flight information to check the complete combination.
Choose the flight that actually reaches the pickup airport
For an arrival transfer, supply the final flight landing at Zurich, rather than an earlier flight on the same ticket. Include the airline and number exactly as they appear on the itinerary. Where a codeshare shows several numbers, adding the operating flight helps dispatch identify the service. A booking reference used by the airline is different from a flight number and should not be entered in its place.
Use the arrival date in Switzerland
A journey that leaves another continent in the evening may arrive at Zurich the following morning. The transfer date must describe the local day on which the pickup occurs. Check the date shown alongside the final flight arrival, not only the first date on your ticket. Write the month in words in a message if an international group may read a numeric date in different ways.
Keep scheduled arrival separate from passenger readiness
Provide the scheduled flight arrival to identify the service, then explain any expected assistance or equipment collection. The time you become ready for a chauffeur depends on airport procedures and baggage. If a form asks for a pickup time, make clear that this is an airport arrival request tied to the flight. Do not add an arbitrary interval and present it as a guaranteed release time.
For departures, give the flight as the deadline context
When leaving Davos, the pickup time is the time the vehicle is requested at your property. The flight departure is later and helps the team assess the plan. Boarding, check-in closing and airport arrival guidance are separate constraints. Send a correction promptly if you discover that a flight time was entered in the pickup field; do not wait until the evening before departure.
Finish with a written cross-check
Read the confirmation as a sentence: this party leaves this address on this date at this local time, travelling to this airport for this flight. Ask another adult to review it if several bookings have been organised together. Save the checked version and use its reference in future messages. When a flight is rebooked, send the whole corrected flight-and-date combination so an old date is not accidentally retained.
If an itinerary screenshot contains several flight legs, highlight the final arrival into Zurich or identify it in the accompanying text. This avoids a well-intentioned organiser forwarding a long document in which the relevant flight is difficult to distinguish from earlier connections.
Questions about this journey
Should I enter my airline reservation code?
Use the flight number, such as the airline code followed by digits. Your airline reservation code is not the arriving service number.
Which timezone applies to Davos pickups?
Pickup times are coordinated in Europe/Zurich local time. Always include the full local date, especially around midnight.
What if my flight is sold under two airline numbers?
Send the operating airline and flight number if available, together with the codeshare number shown on your ticket.