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| Serves | Geneva | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,411 ft / 430 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 46°14′18″N 006°06′34″E / 46.23833°N 6.10944°E | ||||||||||||||
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Geneva Cointrin International Airport (IATA: GVA, ICAO: LSGG) is an airport in Geneva, Switzerland. It is located 4 km (2.5 mi) northwest[1] of 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 m (12,795 ft), 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 Geneva seasonally, especially during the winter ski season)
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Aer Lingus | Cork [seasonal], Dublin |
| Aeroflot | Moscow-Sheremetyevo |
| Air Algérie | Algiers |
| Air Canada | Montreal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson |
| Air Europa | Palma de Mallorca |
| Air France | Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| Air France operated by Régional | Ajaccio, Biarritz |
| Air Malta | Catania, Malta |
| Air Mauritius | Mauritius |
| airBaltic | Riga |
| Alitalia | Rome-Fiumicino |
| Alitalia operated by Air One | Rome-Fiumicino |
| Atlas Blue | Marrakech [seasonal] |
| Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways | Vienna |
| Baboo | Athens, Biarritz [seasonal], Bordeaux, Bucharest-Henri Coandă, Florence, Ibiza [seasonal], Larnaca [seasonal], Lugano, Naples, Nice, Rome-Fiumicino, Saint Tropez-La Môle [seasonal], Toulouse, Valencia, Venice-Marco Polo |
| 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, Belfast-International [seasonal], Berlin-Schönefeld, Birmingham [seasonal], Bordeaux, Bournemouth [seasonal], Bristol, Brussels, Budapest, Cagliari [seasonal], Copenhagen [begins 12 December], Dubrovnik, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Glasgow-International [seasonal], Ibiza [seasonal], Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Lisbon, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted [seasonal], Madrid, Malaga, Manchester, Marrakech, Nantes, Naples [seasonal], Newcastle [seasonal], Nice, Olbia [seasonal], Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Porto, Rome-Ciampino, Rome-Fiumicino [begins 26 October], Sharm el Sheikh [begins 15 December], Split [seasonal], Stockholm-Arlanda, Toulouse [begins 15 December] |
| EgyptAir | Cairo, Hurghada |
| El Al | Tel Aviv |
| Edelweiss Air | Hurghada, Kos, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tenerife-South |
| Etihad Airways | Abu Dhabi |
| Finnair | Helsinki |
| Flybe | Exeter [seasonal], Isle of Man [seasonal], Jersey [seasonal], Newquay [seasonal], Norwich [seasonal], Southampton [seasonal] |
| Flyglobespan | Edinburgh |
| Hello | Antalya, Corfu, Heraklion, Kos, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Pristina, Sharm el-Sheikh, Taba, Tarbes/Lourdes |
| Iberia | Madrid |
| Iceland Express | Reykjavík-Keflavík |
| Iran Air | Tehran-Imam Khomeini |
| Jet2.com | Blackpool, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester [seasonal] |
| Jet4you | Casablanca |
| KLM | Amsterdam |
| Kuwait Airways | Kuwait, Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| LOT Polish Airlines | Warsaw |
| Lufthansa | Frankfurt, Munich |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti | Munich |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Augsburg Airways | Munich |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings | Düsseldorf |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine | Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Munich |
| Luxair | Luxembourg |
| Malév Hungarian Airlines | Budapest [ends 25 October] |
| Middle East Airlines | Beirut |
| Nouvelair | Djerba, Monastir |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Oslo-Gardermoen |
| Primera Air | Dublin |
| 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-Henri Coandă, Budapest, Hurghada [seasonal], Moscow-Domodedovo, New York-JFK, Palma de Mallorca [seasonal], Prague, Zürich |
| Swiss operated by Swiss European Air Lines | London-City, London-Heathrow [seasonal], Malaga, Palma de Mallorca [seasonal], Zürich |
| TAP Portugal | Lisbon, Porto |
| Thomson Airways | Doncaster/Sheffield |
| Transavia | Rotterdam |
| Tunisair | Djerba, Monastir, Tunis |
| Turkish Airlines | Istanbul-Atatürk |
| United Airlines | Washington-Dulles |
| Uzbekistan Airways | Tashkent |
| Viking Airlines | London-Gatwick, Manchester |
Cargo airlines
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| AirBridgeCargo Airlines | |
| Farnair Switzerland | Cologne/Bonn |
| DHL Aviation | Brussels |
| Jade Cargo International | Beijing |
| TNT Airways | Basel/Mulhouse, Liège |
Ground connections
The airport is 4 km (2.5 mi)[1] 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 resort Chamonix in France and ski resorts in Switzerland.
Before passing through customs a machine dispenses free 80 minute tickets for Transports Publics Genevois, which are valid for both the city buses and trains to the Geneva station (Cornavin).
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
- The old airport building, located next to the current building, is shown in The Adventures of Tintin story "The Calculus Affair."