Geneva International Airport

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The Geneva International Airport ( IATA code GVA, ICAO code LSGG, brand name Genève Aéroport; originally Aéroport de Genève- Cointrin ) in the political community Le Grand- Saconnex and Cointrin in the political commune of Meyrin is the international airport of Geneva and the Switzerland's second largest airport.

The main airlines on site are the Swiss national airline, Swiss, and the low cost airline EasyJet, which operates a hub at the airport. Main destinations are in passenger volumes London, Paris, Zurich, Amsterdam and Brussels. In addition, the Geneva Airport is an important location of VIP aviation and benefits from the many Geneva-based international organizations, including the United Nations and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

Immediately southeast of the airport adjacent is the Geneva Palexpo, where takes place, inter alia, the Geneva Motor Show. The airport has offered an underground station, the train connections from Geneva city center as well as after the major Swiss cities.

Objectives

In addition to various destinations in Europe start from Geneva also intercontinental flights to New York JFK, Newark, Washington - Dulles, Toronto - Pearson, Montreal, Casablanca, Marrakech- Menara, Djerba, Monastir, Amman, Riyadh, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Jeddah, Kuwait, Cairo, Tel Aviv, Beirut, Algiers, Tunis, Tashkent, Beijing.

Geneva Airport in figures

2011 was one of the airport of Geneva over 13 million passengers, 189,000 aircraft movements and a cargo volume of about 61,000 tons. For arrivals and departures is in Geneva a start and runway 5/23 with a length of 3900 meters and a capacity of almost 40 flights per hour.

View of the apron

Trivia

Since the airport is partially located on French soil, an agreement was signed with France, under which passengers flying to destinations within France, to come on board to cross without Swiss customs territory. Therefore, the airport has a French sector, which can be reached from France directly through a road tunnel. For the same reason all flights to France are classified as domestic flights. Swiss passengers on flights to France must first inside the airport by the French customs before they can check.