Geneva Cointrin International Airport
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| Geneva Cointrin International Airport Aéroport international de Genève |
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| IATA: GVA - ICAO: LSGG | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Serves | Geneva | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,410 ft (430 m) | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 05/23 | 12,795 | 3,900 | Concrete |
| 05L/23R | 2,700 | 823 | Grass/Earth |
Geneva Cointrin International Airport (IATA: GVA, ICAO: LSGG) 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 large runway. It is a major hub for easyJet, a lesser hub for Swiss International Air Lines and the former only hub of Swiss World Airways, which disappeared 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 2006, the airport served 9,963,025 passengers, which marked a 5.9% increase comparing to 2005.
[edit] Airlines and destinations
(Note: Some of these airlines only serve GVA seasonally, especially the Winter season.)
- Aer Lingus (Dublin)
- Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
- Afriqiyah Airways (Tripoli)
- Air Algérie (Algiers)
- Air France (Ajaccio, Biarritz, Bordeaux, Clermont Ferrand, Nantes, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse)
- Air Malta (Catania [begins May 1, 2007], Malta)
- Air Mauritius (Mauritius)
- Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
- Atlas Blue (Marrakech)
- Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
- bmi
- bmibaby (Birmingham, Cardiff, Manchester, Nottingham/East Midlands)
- British Airways (London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow)
- Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
- Clickair (Barcelona)
- Continental Airlines (Newark)
- Darwin Airline (Dubrovnik [begins 17 May 2007], Lugano)
- easyJet (Alicante, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Belfast, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bordeaux [begins June 29, 2007], Bristol, Brussels [begins June 29, 2007], Budapest, Bournemouth, Cagliari [begins June 29, 2007], Edinburgh, Glasgow, Lisbon, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Madrid, Malaga, Newcastle, Nice, Nottingham, Paris-Orly, Porto [begins June 29, 2007], Rome-Ciampino)
- easyJet Switzerland (Hamburg, Prague)
- EgyptAir (Cairo, Hurghada, Sharm el-Sheikh)
- El Al (Tel Aviv)
- Edelweiss Air (Hurghada, Kos, Las Palmas, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tenerife)
- Etihad Airways (Abu Dhabi)
- European Air Express (Cologne/Bonn)
- Farnair Switzerland (Cologne/Bonn)(cargo flights only)
- Finnair (Helsinki)
- Flybaboo (Biarritz [begins June 21, 2007], Florence, Ibiza, Lugano, Marseille, Naples, Nice, Olbia, Prague, Saint Tropez, Valencia, Venice)
- Flybe (Birmingham, Exeter, Southampton)
- Flyglobespan (Edinburgh)
- Hainan Airlines (Beijing, Budapest) [awaiting gov't approval]
- Helvetic Airways (Split) [begins May 17, 2007]
- Iberia (Madrid)
- Iran Air (Tehran-Mehrabad)
- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
- Kuwait Airways (Kuwait, Paris-Charles de Gaulle [seasonal])
- LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti (Munich)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Augsburg Airways (Munich)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Contact Air (Stuttgart)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings (Düsseldorf)
- Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine (Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Munich)
- Luxair (Luxembourg)
- Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
- Middle East Airlines (Beirut)
- Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo)
- Olympic Airlines (Athens)
- Qatar Airways (Doha, Newark) [begins 28 June 2007]
- Rossiya Airlines (St. Petersburg)
- Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca)
- Royal Jordanian (Amman)
- Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, Riyadh)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda)
- Sterling Airlines (Copenhagen)
- Swiss International Air Lines (Athens, Barcelona, Moscow-Domodedovo, New York-JFK, Zürich)
- Swiss European Air Lines (London-City, Malaga, Prague, Valencia, Zürich)
- TAP Portugal (Lisbon, Porto)
- Thomsonfly (Doncaster-Sheffield [starts Winter 2007])
- TNT Airways (Basel/Mulhouse, Liege) (cargo flights only)
- transavia.com (Rotterdam)
- Tunisair (Djerba, Monastir, Tunis)
- Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
[edit] Trivia
- The airport is shown in The Adventures of Tintin story The Calculus Affair.
[edit] External links
- Geneva Cointrin International Airport
- World Aero Data airport information for LSGG
