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Geneva International Airport
Geneva International Airport; Aéroport international de Genève
IATA: GVA – ICAO: LSGG
Summary
Airport type	Public
Serves	Geneva
Location	Meyrin and Grand-Saconnex
Hub for	Baboo; easyJet; Hello AG;
Elevation AMSL	1,411 ft / 430 m
Coordinates	46°14′18″N 006°06′34″E / 46.23833°N 6.10944°ECoordinates: 46°14′18″N 006°06′34″E / 46.23833°N 6.10944°E
Website	www.gva.ch/en
Runways
	Source: Swiss AIP at EUROCONTROL

For the airport in Geneva, Alabama, United States, see Geneva Municipal Airport.

Geneva International Airport (IATA: GVA, ICAO: LSGG) is an airport near 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 is partially located within the commune of Meyrin and partially in the commune of Grand-Saconnex.^[2]^[3]

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 International Airport 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.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

[edit] Passenger Airlines

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 Berlin operated by Belair	Pristina
Air Canada	Montreal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson
Air Europa	Palma de Mallorca
Air France	Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Air France operated by Régional	Ajaccio [seasonal], 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], London-City, Lugano, Marseilles [seasonal], Milan-Malpensa, Naples, Nice, Oxford [seasonal], Rome-Fiumicino, Saint-Tropez [seasonal], Toulouse, Valencia, Venice-Marco Polo
Blue Islands	Guernsey, Jersey
Bmibaby	Birmingham, Cardiff, East Midlands, Manchester
British Airways	London-Gatwick [seasonal], London-Heathrow
British Airways operated by BA CityFlyer	London-City [seasonal]
Brussels Airlines	Brussels
Continental Airlines	Newark
Darwin Airline	Cagliari [seasonal], Lugano, Olbia [seasonal]
EasyJet Switzerland	Ajaccio [seasonal], Alicante, Amsterdam, Asturias, Barcelona, Bastia, Belfast-International [seasonal], Berlin-Schönefeld, Birmingham [seasonal], Bordeaux, Bournemouth [seasonal], Bristol, Brussels, Budapest, Cagliari [seasonal], Copenhagen, Dubrovnik, East Midlands [ends 5 January], 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 upon Tyne [seasonal], Nice, Olbia [seasonal], Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Porto, Rome-Ciampino, Rome-Fiumicino, Sharm el-Sheikh, Split [seasonal], Stockholm-Arlanda, Toulouse
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], Manchester [seasonal], Newquay [seasonal], Norwich [seasonal], Southampton [seasonal]
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
Middle East Airlines	Beirut
Nouvelair	Djerba, Monastir
Norwegian Air Shuttle	Oslo-Gardermoen, Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda
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],London-Heathrow [resumes 10 January]^[4], Moscow-Domodedovo, New York-JFK, Palma de Mallorca [seasonal], Prague, Zürich
Swiss operated by BMI	London-Heathrow [resumes 10 January]
Swiss operated by Swiss European Air Lines	London-City, Malaga, Manchester [seasonal], 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

[edit] Cargo Airlines

Cities with direct international passenger airlinks with Geneva

Airlines	Destinations
AirBridgeCargo Airlines
Farnair Switzerland	Cologne/Bonn
DHL Aviation	Brussels
Jade Cargo International	Shanghai
TNT Airways	Basel/Mulhouse, Liège

[edit] Ground connections

Airport entrance.

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.

Winter weekends see dozens of coaches at the nearby Charter terminal (former cargo terminal) meeting charter flights from all over Europe, but primarily the UK. These take holidaymakers to/from ski resorts in France, Switzerland & Italy.

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).

[edit] Incidents and accidents

On September 2, 1998, Swissair Flight 111, bound for Geneva International Airport 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.

[edit] 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."

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b ^c EAD Basic
^ "Plan de commune." Meyrin. Retrieved on 29 September 2009.
^ "PLAN DIRECTEUR." Grand-Saconnex. 117 (3/4). Retrieved on 29 September 2009.
^ http://www.swiss.com/web/EN/about_swiss/media/press_releases/Pages/pr_20091123.aspx

[edit] External links

[AIP-0] EAD Basic

[Meyrinmap-1] "Plan de commune." Meyrin. Retrieved on 29 September 2009.

[2] "PLAN DIRECTEUR." Grand-Saconnex. 117 (3/4). Retrieved on 29 September 2009.

[3] ttp://www.swiss.com/web/EN/about_swiss/media/press_releases/Pages/pr_20091123.aspx

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