Direct flights from Zurich (ZRH) to Colombo (CMB): 3 nonstop departures observed each week across 1 airline. No cancellations were recorded across the 2 tracked flights. The nonstop covers 8,021 km, an estimated 10 hours 47 minutes in the air. Measured by Pro Flight Search from live flight boards at Zurich and Colombo. Updated 30 October 2026 at 17:01 UTC.
The ZRH board at 18:01 shows departure at 19:30 instead of 18:05, gate E52.
Checked ZRH board 18:01
route health from live ZRH and CMB delay boards
0 of 2 tracked legs cancelled in the sample. Will a delayed flight be cancelled? →
Flights WK64 varies Mo We Fr
Actual board outcomes rather than schedules, paired departure and arrival per flight and day.
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Pro Flight Search records official board updates for nonstop ZRH to CMB flights through the day: schedules, estimates, gate pushes and actual departures. The verdict above comes from operated flights, so it reflects what this route does rather than what the timetable promises.
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Pro Flight Search: Zurich (ZRH) to Colombo (CMB) route reliability, measured from operated flights on official airport boards.
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Smooth skies ahead. The departure side at ZRH is the weaker end, route health score 88/100. The airports section above carries the live status and delay window at both ends.
Great-circle distance is 8,021 km. With typical jet cruise speed plus taxi, climb and descent, expect roughly 596–718 min gate-to-gate on this route.
Edelweiss Air runs the route with about 3 flights a week (mon, wed, fri). Since one carrier owns the route, a single disruption tends to ripple through the day.
A blend of departure-side delay at ZRH and arrival-side delay at CMB, computed from rolling delay windows (refreshed every 40 minutes) with a daily-rollup fallback. Current MVFR, IFR, or LIFR endpoint weather caps the score when flight rules can limit throughput. Higher is healthier: 100 means operations are clean at both ends.
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