Sion Airport before your flight: check-in, the restaurant and private-aviation lounges
Sion Airport (SIR) has one main terminal building, with its check-in desks and its restaurant before security, and private-aviation handling companies that receive their own passengers. Each place below says where it is and links its official page, with its hours and who may use it wherever that page gives them. Flights and services change with the seasons, so check that page before you travel.
Sion Airport in a minute
Sion Airport has one main terminal building for airline flights, with its check-in desks in the entrance hall. Passengers on private flights are received by their handling company: the airport lists three, set out with the lounges below.
Flights from within and outside the Schengen Area can arrive and depart directly: the airport has customs and immigration during the aerodrome's operating hours, which change with the season and are set out with the day's other hours below.
The latest flight timetable the airport published was for summer 2026: a Thursday flight to Palma de Mallorca, operated by Helvetic Airways from 28 May to 8 October 2026. When this page was last checked, the airport's flights page showed no timetable for winter 2026/27, so ask your airline or tour operator which flights operate on your date.
Flights at sionaeroport.chCheck-in
The airport sets the latest check-in time at 45 minutes before departure. That is a deadline, not advice on when to arrive: your airline or tour operator says when to come, so follow its instructions for your flight. Helvetic Airways, for example, generally recommends arriving at check-in 2.5 hours before departure.
- Where
- The entrance hall of the main terminal building
Before security: the restaurant and its terrace
Before security, the main terminal building holds the check-in desks and Terminal60, its restaurant, where you can eat and wait before your flight within the restaurant's hours.
Terminal60
The restaurant in the main terminal building, with a terrace facing the runway and the Alps. Its hours are the restaurant's own, not the terminal's.
- Where
- Main terminal building, Route de l'Aéroport 60, Sion
- Hours
- Tuesday to Saturday 08:30–23:00; Monday and Sunday 08:30–17:00
After security, and the private-aviation lounges
The airport's own pages describe no lounge, shop or restaurant beyond security for passengers on commercial flights, so plan to eat at Terminal60 before you go through. The lounges at Sion belong to private aviation. The airport lists three handling agents, Signature Flight Support, Alpine Jet Service (Alpinejet) and its own handling service, under which it also names a lounge. Each receives the passengers of the flights it handles; your flight documents or your flight company tell you which one is yours.
Signature private terminal
Signature's private terminal at Sion, with customs and immigration on site and secure access to the ramp.
- Where
- Chemin Lambien 12, 1950 Sion
- Who may use it
- Passengers of the flights Signature handles
- Hours
- 07:00–20:00 from April to October; from 08:00 until nightfall from October to March
Alpinejet lounge
Alpinejet receives its passengers in its own premises, with assistance between the aircraft and the lounge, help with baggage, customs and immigration on site, help for passengers with reduced mobility, refreshments, meals on request in advance, a shower and Wi-Fi.
- Where
- Route des Ronquoz 146, Sion
- Who may use it
- Passengers of the flights Alpinejet handles
- Hours
- 07:00–20:00 in summer; from 08:00 until sunset in winter, within the airport's opening hours
Airport handling lounge
The airport is one of the three handling agents it lists, and it names a lounge under its own handling service. Its page gives the lounge no hours, place or conditions of entry, so ask the airport's handling service when you arrange your flight.
- Who may use it
- Passengers of the flights the airport's own handling serves
The handlers' hours follow the seasons and the aerodrome's operating hours. Confirm the time and the place to arrive for your flight with your handler or your flight company.
Families and assistance
Children have a playground at Terminal60, the restaurant before security. Passengers with reduced mobility ask their airline or travel agency for the airport's free assistance when they book.
Assistance for reduced mobility
The airport's assistance for passengers with reduced mobility is free. Request it from your airline or travel agency when you book, or at least 48 hours before departure, for your outbound and your return flight.
On arrival, the assistance meets you at your seat or at the aircraft door, as you need, and accompanies you to the arrivals hall and your baggage; it can then take you on to a taxi booked in advance or to your car in the long-stay car park.
Before departure, if time allows, the assistance can accompany you close to the restaurant and collect you again at the time and place agreed.
- Who may use it
- Passengers with reduced mobility
Play area at Terminal60
Terminal60 describes a children's playground at the restaurant, which also has its terrace facing the runway.
- Where
- Terminal60, main terminal building
Skis and other sports equipment travel only as your airline accepts them, so check its rules before you pack. Helvetic Airways, for example, carries sports equipment under 150 cm within the baggage allowance; longer equipment must be registered, and equipment over 280 cm travels only on request.
Travel information at helvetic.comIf your flight is delayed
Follow your flight with your airline or tour operator, and on the airport's flights page.
Flights at sionaeroport.chBefore security, Terminal60 is open until 23:00 from Tuesday to Saturday, and until 17:00 on Monday and Sunday. Passengers on private flights wait with their handler, within its hours.
The aerodrome operates in daylight, by season, and these are its operating hours, not the terminal's opening hours. From April to September it opens at 07:00 and closes at nightfall, at 20:00 at the latest. From October to March it opens at 08:00 and closes at nightfall, at 20:00 at the latest; until the clocks go back at the end of October, and again from the end of March, both times are an hour later. Movements outside these hours need the airport's special permission.
Pilot information at sionaeroport.chReport a missing or damaged bag on arrival, straight away, to your airline's handling agent, as Helvetic Airways asks its passengers to do.
Travel information at helvetic.comAcross the day
- Aerodrome, October to March08:00 until nightfall, 20:00 at the latest, winter time
- Aerodrome, April to September07:00 until nightfall, 20:00 at the latest
- Terminal60Tuesday to Saturday 08:30–23:00; Monday and Sunday 08:30–17:00
- Signature, October to March08:00 until nightfall
- Signature, April to October07:00–20:00
- Alpinejet, winter08:00 until sunset
- Alpinejet, summer07:00–20:00
Getting to and from the airport
By car, car park P1 adjoins the terminal building and has 140 spaces. For longer stays, the airport's 2026 price list sets long-term parking at CHF 10 for 1–4 days, CHF 20 for 5–9, CHF 30 for 10–12, CHF 40 for 13–16 and CHF 60 for 17–23, paid with a sticker at the airport office (Sion Airport, checked 14 October 2026). Permits and information for car parks P2 and P3 are at the AIS/C office in the main building.
Access and parking at sionaeroport.chBus BS11, one of PostAuto's Bus Sédunois town lines, links the Sion, Aéroport stop with Sion, Gare Bus Sédunois at the railway station; the airport's own page still calls it Bus 01. Some of its departures run only from Monday to Saturday, except public holidays, so check the timetable for your day.
Bus Sédunois at postauto.chFrom Sion station, two ways lead on to Crans-Montana: the train to Sierre, then the funicular or a bus up to Crans-Montana; or PostAuto bus 12.353 from the Sion, poste/gare stop, through Ayent, Icogne and Lens to Crans-Montana, Le Mèrignou. The last stretch to your accommodation comes on top of either.
Funicular and bus timetables at cie-smc.chPublic transport to Crans-Montana at crans-montana.chTimetables change each December, and the current ones run until 12 December 2026: check the whole journey for your date and your address before you travel.
Journey planner at sbb.chTravelling on to Crans-Montana by road? Our page on airport transfers between Sion Airport and Crans-Montana sets out how your chauffeur meets you in the arrivals hall, the waiting included from landing, private flights met in the hangar or on the apron when the flight company arranges it and the airport authorises it, and the drive of about 40 minutes in normal traffic.
Sources
Every fact on this page was checked on 17 October 2026 at the sources below. The airport's own pages come first, with the aeronautical information it publishes; the restaurant, the handlers and the airline speak for themselves, and the journey to Crans-Montana comes from PostAuto, the official timetable, SMC, the resort and SBB.
Sion Airport
- Travellers' guide (check-in, customs, car parks and the town bus)
- Passengers with reduced mobility
- Flights and news
- Services (handling agents)
- Pilot information (operating hours)
- Price list 2026 (long-term parking)
Skyguide
- AIP Switzerland, Sion aerodrome (customs and immigration hours), published by the airport
Terminal60
Signature Aviation
Alpinejet
- Passenger area and who we are (hours)