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Airport entrance.
'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, and a smaller, parallel, grass runway for light aircraft. It is a major hub for
easyJet, 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 2006, the airport served 9,963,025 passengers, which marked a 5.9% increase comparing to 2005.
Airlines and destinations
(Note: Some of these airlines only serve GVA seasonally, especially the Winter season.)
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Aer Lingus (Belfast [begins 10 December 2007], Dublin)
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Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
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Afriqiyah Airways (Tripoli)
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Air Algérie (Algiers, Constantine, Oran)
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Air France (Ajaccio, Biarritz, Bordeaux, Calvi, Clermont-Ferrand, Nantes, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse)
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CityJet (London-City)
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Air Malta (Catania, Malta)
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Air Mauritius (Port Louis)
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Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
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Atlas Blue (Marrakech)
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Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
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bmi
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bmibaby (Birmingham [seasonal], Cardiff [seasonal], Manchester [seasonal], Nottingham/East Midlands)
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British Airways (London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow)
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Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
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Clickair (Barcelona)
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Continental Airlines (Newark)
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Darwin Airline (Cagliari [seasonal], Dubrovnik, Lugano, Olbia [seasonal])
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easyJet (Alicante, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Belfast-International, Berlin-Schönefeld, Birmingham [begins 14 December 2007], Bordeaux, Bristol, Brussels, Budapest, Bournemouth, Cagliari, Edinburgh, Glasgow-International, Ibiza, Las Palmas [begins 31 October 2007], Lisbon, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Madrid, Malaga, Marrakech [begins 30 October 2007], Newcastle [begins 14 December 2007], Nice, Nottingham, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Porto, Rome-Ciampino)
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easyJet Switzerland (Brussels, Hamburg, Prague)
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EgyptAir (Cairo, Hurghada, Sharm el-Sheikh)
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El Al (Tel Aviv)
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Edelweiss Air (Hurghada, Kos, Las Palmas, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tenerife)
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Etihad Airways (Abu Dhabi)
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Finnair (Helsinki)
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Flybaboo (Biarritz, Florence, Ibiza, Lugano, Marseille, Naples, Nice, Olbia, Saint Tropez, Valencia, Venice)
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Flybe (Birmingham, Exeter, Isle Of Man, Newquay, Southampton)
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Flyglobespan (Edinburgh [begins 22 December 2007])
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Helvetic Airways (Monastir)
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Iberia (Madrid)
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Iran Air (Tehran-Mehrabad)
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KLM (Amsterdam)
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Kuwait Airways (Kuwait, Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
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LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw)
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Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
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Lufthansa Regional operated by
Air Dolomiti (Munich)
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Lufthansa Regional operated by
Augsburg Airways (Munich)
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Lufthansa Regional operated by
Eurowings (Düsseldorf)
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Lufthansa Regional operated by
Lufthansa CityLine (Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Munich)
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Luxair (Luxembourg)
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Malév Hungarian Airlines (Budapest)
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Middle East Airlines (Beirut)
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Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo)
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Olympic Airlines (Athens)
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Qatar Airways (Doha, Newark)
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Rossiya (St. Petersburg)
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Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca)
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Royal Jordanian (Amman)
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Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, Manchester, Riyadh)
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Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda)
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Sterling Airlines (Copenhagen)
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Swiss International Air Lines (Athens, Barcelona, Moscow-Domodedovo, New York-JFK, Zürich)
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Swiss European Air Lines (London-City, Malaga, Prague, Valencia, Zürich)
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TAP Portugal (Lisbon, Porto)
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Thomsonfly (Doncaster-Sheffield [starts Winter 2007])
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Tunisair (Djerba, Monastir, Tunis)
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Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk, Antalya)
Cargo airlines
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Farnair Switzerland (Cologne/Bonn)
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TNT Airways (Basel/Mulhouse, Liege)
Trivia
★ The airport is shown in
The Adventures of Tintin story
The Calculus Affair.
External links
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Geneva Cointrin International Airport
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