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Geneva Cointrin International Airport
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Geneva Cointrin International Airport is an airport in Geneva, Switzerland. It is located at , 5 km from the city centre and has direct connections to expressways, bus lines and railways (SBB-CFF-FFS). Its northern limit runs along the Swiss-French border and the airport can be accessed from both countries. Passengers on flights to or from France do not have to go through Swiss customs and immigration controls if they remain in the French sector of the airport.
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Geneva Cointrin International Airport is an airport in Geneva, Switzerland. It is located at , 5 km from the city centre and has direct connections to expressways, bus lines and railways (SBB-CFF-FFS). Its northern limit runs along the Swiss-French border and the airport can be accessed from both countries. Passengers on flights to or from France do not have to go through Swiss customs and immigration controls if they remain in the French sector of the airport. The freight operations are also accessible from both countries, making Geneva a European Union freight hub although Switzerland is not a member of the EU.
The airport has a single concrete runway, which is the longest in Switzerland with a length of 3.900 meters or 12,795 feet, and a smaller, parallel, grass runway for light aircraft. It is a major hub for easyJet and Flybaboo, a lesser hub for Swiss International Air Lines and the former hub of Swiss World Airways, which ceased operations in 1998. Geneva Cointrin has extensive convention facilities and hosts an office of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and the world headquarters of Airports Council International (ACI).
In 2008, the airport served 11,409,833 passengers, an increase of 5.6% from 2007.
Airlines and destinations
(Note: Some of these airlines only serve GVA seasonally, especially the winter season.)
- Aer Lingus (Belfast-International, Cork, Dublin)
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- Afriqiyah Airways (Tripoli)
- Air Algérie (Algiers, Constantine, Oran)
- Air Canada (Montreal, Toronto-Pearson) [begins 2 June]
- Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Air Malta (Catania, Malta-Luqa)
- Air Mauritius (Mauritius)
- Alitalia (Rome-Fiumicino)
- operated by Air One (Rome-Fiumicino) [begins March 29]
- Atlas Blue (Marrakech)
- Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
- Blue Islands (Guernsey, Jersey, Southampton)
- bmibaby (Birmingham, Cardiff, East Midlands, Manchester)
- British Airways (London-Gatwick [seasonal], London-Heathrow)
- Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
- Continental Airlines (Newark)
- Darwin Airline (Cagliari [seasonal], Lugano, Olbia [seasonal])
- easyJet (Ajaccio [seasonal], Alicante, Amsterdam, Asturias, Barcelona, Bastia [begins July 2], Belfast-International [seasonal], Berlin-Schönefeld, Birmingham [seasonal], Bordeaux, Bournemouth [seasonal], Bristol, Brussels, Budapest, Cagliari [seasonal], Dubrovnik [begins July 2], East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow-International [seasonal], Ibiza [seasonal], Las Palmas, Lisbon, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted [seasonal], Madrid, Malaga, Manchester, Marrakech, Nantes, Naples [seasonal], Newcastle [seasonal], Nice, Olbia [seasonal], Palma, Paris-Orly, Porto, Rome-Ciampino, Split [seasonal], Stockholm-Arlanda)
- EgyptAir (Cairo, Hurghada, Sharm el-Sheikh)
- El Al (Tel Aviv)
- Edelweiss Air (Hurghada, Kos, Las Palmas, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tenerife South)
- Etihad Airways (Abu Dhabi)
- Finnair (Helsinki)
- Flybaboo (Athens, Biarritz, Bordeaux, Bucharest-Otopeni, Florence, Ibiza, Lugano, Naples, Nice, Pristina, Rome-Fiumicino, Saint Tropez, Sofia, Toulouse, Valencia, Venice-Marco Polo, Vienna)
- Flybe (Exeter, Isle Of Man, Jersey, Newquay, Norwich, Southampton)
- Flyglobespan (Edinburgh)
- Hello (Pristina)
- Iberia (Madrid)
- Iran Air (Tehran-Imam Khomeini)
- Jet2.com (Leeds/Bradford, London-Stansted [seasonal])
- Jet4you (Casablanca)
- KLM (Amsterdam)
- Kuwait Airways (Kuwait, Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
- Luxair (Luxembourg)
- Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
- Middle East Airlines (Beirut)
- Monarch Airlines (London Stansted [seasonal charter])
- MyAir (Brindisi)
- Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo)
- Qatar Airways (Doha)
- Rossiya (St Petersburg) [seasonal]
- Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca)
- Royal Jordanian (Amman)
- Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, Manchester, Riyadh)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda)
- Swiss International Air Lines (Athens, Barcelona, Bucharest-Otopeni, Budapest, Istanbul-Atatürk, Moscow-Domodedovo, New York-JFK, Pristina [begins May 16], Zürich)
- TAP Portugal (Lisbon, Porto)
- Thomsonfly (Doncaster-Sheffield)
- Transavia (Rotterdam)
- Tunisair (Djerba, Monastir, Tunis)
- Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
- United Airlines (Washington-Dulles) [begins 20 April]
- Uzbekistan Airways (Tashkent)
- Viking Airlines (London-Gatwick, Manchester)
Cargo airlines
Ground connections
The airport is 5 km from the Geneva city centre. There is a railway station with trains to Geneva, and other cities in Switzerland. There are local buses that stop at the airport. There are also buses to and from Annecy, France, and also seasonal buses to ski resorts in France and Switzerland.
Incidents and accidents
On September 2, 1998, Swissair Flight 111, bound for Cointrin from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, New York, crashed off of the coast of Nova Scotia due to an in-flight fire originating from the wiring in the plane. All of the 229 passengers and crew died.
Other facts of interest
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