There are 6 ways to get from Ottawa to Luthern by plane or train
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Fly Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to Zurich Airport, train
best- Fly from Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)YOW - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Luzern
12h 51mCHF 381–739Fly Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport, train
cheapest- Fly from Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW) to Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP)YOW - MXP
- Take the train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Lugano
- Take the train from Lugano to Luzern
17h 3mCHF 202–739Fly Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to Basel, train
- Fly from Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW) to Basel (BSL)YOW - BSL
- Take the train from Basel SBB to Luzern
13h 45mCHF 405–947Train to Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, fly to Zurich Airport, train
- Take the train from Ottawa to Dorval
- Fly from Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL) to Zurich Airport (ZRH)YUL - ZRH
- Take the train from Zürich HB to Luzern
12h 30mCHF 310–547Fly Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to Geneva International Airport, train
- Fly from Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW) to Geneva International Airport (GVA)YOW - GVA
- Take the train from Genève-Aéroport to Luzern
16h 6mCHF 372–692Train to Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport, fly to Geneva International Airport, train
- Take the train from Ottawa to Dorval
- Fly from Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL) to Geneva International Airport (GVA)YUL - GVA
- Take the train from Genève-Aéroport to Luzern
15h 45mCHF 311–710
Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW) to Zurich Airport (ZRH) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Ottawa to Luthern is to train and fly which costs SFr 310 - SFr 550 and takes 12h 30m.
The fastest way to get from Ottawa to Luthern is to train and fly which takes 12h 30m and costs SFr 310 - SFr 550.
The distance between Ottawa and Luthern is 6204 km.
It takes approximately 12h 51m to get from Ottawa to Luthern, including transfers.
Luthern is 6h ahead of Ottawa. It is currently 9:06 PM in Ottawa and 3:06 AM in Luthern.
There are 561+ hotels available in Luthern.
What companies run services between Ottawa, ON, Canada and Luthern, Switzerland?
There is no direct connection from Ottawa to Luthern. However, you can take the line 105 bus to Airport / Aéroport, walk to Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW) airport, fly to Zurich Airport (ZRH), walk to Zürich Flughafen, take the train to Zürich HB, then take the train to Luzern. Alternatively, you can take the line 105 bus to Airport / Aéroport, walk to Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW) airport, fly to Basel (BSL), walk to Basel EuroAirport, Ankunft, take the line 50 bus to Basel, Bahnhof SBB, walk to Basel SBB, then take the train to Luzern.
- Website
- aircanada.com
Flights from Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to Zurich Airport via Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 42m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 190–700
Flights from Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to Zurich Airport via Halifax
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 30m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 190–750
Flights from Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to Zurich Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 50m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 190–750
Flights from Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 250–390
Flights from Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 40m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 290–410
Flights from Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport to Zurich Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 45m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 290–410
Flights from Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to Geneva International Airport via Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 50m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 180–750
Flights from Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 160–650
Flights from Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport to Geneva International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 180–700
Flights from Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport to Geneva International Airport via Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 190–700
- Website
- airfrance.com
Flights from Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to Zurich Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 190–750
Flights from Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to Basel via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 200–800
Flights from Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport to Zurich Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 56m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 180–750
Flights from Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to Geneva International Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 180–750
Flights from Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 15m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 160–650
Flights from Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport to Geneva International Airport via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 28m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 180–700
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to Zurich Airport via Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 42m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 190–700
Flights from Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport to Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 250–390
Flights from Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to Geneva International Airport via Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 50m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 180–750
Flights from Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 160–650
Flights from Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport to Geneva International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 180–700
Flights from Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport to Geneva International Airport via Zurich Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 40m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- CHF 190–700
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport to Zurich Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 40m
- When
- Monday to Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 290–410
Flights from Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport to Zurich Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 45m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 290–410
Flights from Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to Geneva International Airport via Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 10h
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- CHF 180–750
Flights from Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 55m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- CHF 160–650
Flights from Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport to Geneva International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 180–700
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to Zurich Airport via London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 55m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 260–850
Flights from Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to Geneva International Airport via London Gatwick
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 5m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 260–850
- Website
- klm.com
Flights from Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to Basel via Paris Charles de Gaulle
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 200–800
Flights from Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport to Zurich Airport via Amsterdam Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 180–750
- Website
- airtransat.com
Flights from Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to Basel via Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 22m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 290–900
- Website
- britishairways.com
Flights from Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to Basel via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 15m
- When
- Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- CHF 200–800
Flights from Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport to Milano Malpensa Airport via London Heathrow
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 15m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- CHF 160–650
- Phone
- +41 848 446 688
- Website
- sbb.ch
Train from Zürich HB to Luzern
- Ave. Duration
- 41 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- CHF 16–29
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Basel SBB to Luzern
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 16m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 20–40
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Genève-Aéroport to Luzern
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 16m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 50–90
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
Train from Lugano to Luzern
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 39m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–70
- Website
- https://www.sbb.ch/en
- Phone
- +41 58 580 70 70
- info@sob.ch
- Website
- sob.ch
Train from Basel SBB to Luzern
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Schedules at
- sob.ch
- Phone
- +1 888 842-7245
- Website
- viarail.ca
Train from Ottawa to Dorval
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 37m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- CHF 17–70
- Website
- https://www.viarail.ca/en
- Economy Adult - same day booking
- CHF 19–70
- Economy Adult - Advanced Booking
- CHF 19–55
- Economy Escape Advanced Booking - Adult
- CHF 17–27
- Phone
- +39 02 7249 4494
- my-link@trenord.it
- Website
- trenord.it
Train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Lugano
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- CHF 5–7
- Website
- https://www.trenord.it/en/
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- ufficiogruppi@trenitalia.it
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Lugano to Luzern
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 43m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- CHF 35–80
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- 1st Class
- CHF 55–80
- 2nd Class
- CHF 35–50
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