It was quite the chaotic morning. We awoke in Lucerne and headed to the train station for our scheduled 7:05am train ride from Lucern to the Zurich Airport. I was going to be simple and easy… in theory.
That was until our train broke down.
We had spent the previous week taking trains all over central Europe without incident. But there we were at 7:30am — stranded on a disabled train — somewhere in between Lucerne and Zurich.
Eventually, we backtracked to the closest station and had to hop the next train to Zurich hbf where we had to catch another train out to the airport. Long story short, we arrived at ZRH at around 8:50am for a 10:00am flight.
As we approached the American ticket counters, they were about to shut down for the day, but we were able to successfully check in, proceed through immigration / security and take the train ride out to the satellite International terminal at ZRH. By the time we got to the gate, boarding was underway.