Geneva Cointrin International Airport Aéroport international de Genève
Airport with Geneva in the background.
IATA: GVA - ICAO: LSGG
Summary
Airport type		Public
Serves		Geneva
Elevation AMSL		1,410 ft (430 m)
Coordinates		46°14′13″N, 6°06′32″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
05/23	12,795	3,900	Concrete
05L/23R	2,700	823	Grass/Earth

Airport entrance.

Geneva Cointrin International Airport (IATA: GVA, ICAO: LSGG) is an airport in Geneva, Switzerland. It is located at 46°15′N, 6°8′E, 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. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 495 pixelsFull resolution (2500 × 1548 pixel, file size: 488 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier, IATA station code or simply a location identifier [1], is a three-letter code designating many airports around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). ... The ICAO (IPA pronunciation: ) airport code or location indicator is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. ... Geneva (pronunciation //; French: Genève //, German:   //, Italian: Ginevra //, Romansh: Genevra) is the second most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich), and is the most populous city of Romandy (the French-speaking part of Switzerland). ... The term above mean sea level (AMSL) refers to the elevation (on the ground) or altitude (in the air) of any object, relative to the average sea level. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... The metre (American English:meter) is a measure of length. ... Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically), Eckert VI projection; large version (pdf, 1. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A foot (plural: feet or foot;[1] symbol or abbreviation: ft or, sometimes, ′ – a prime) is a unit of length, in a number of different systems, including English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... The metre (American English:meter) is a measure of length. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 798 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2832 × 2128 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 798 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2832 × 2128 pixel, file size: 1. ... An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier, IATA station code or simply a location identifier [1], is a three-letter code designating many airports around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association (IATA). ... The ICAO (IPA pronunciation: ) airport code or location indicator is a four-letter alphanumeric code designating each airport around the world. ... Geneva (pronunciation //; French: Genève //, German:   //, Italian: Ginevra //, Romansh: Genevra) is the second most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich), and is the most populous city of Romandy (the French-speaking part of Switzerland). ... km redirects here. ... Locomotive of the SBB-CFF-FFS Swiss Federal Railways (SBB-CFF-FFS) is the national railway company of Switzerland. ...

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). easyJet (LSE: EZJ) is a low cost airline officially known as easyJet Airline Company Limited, based at London Luton Airport. ... Swiss International Air Lines (short: Swiss) is the principal airline of Switzerland operating scheduled services in Europe and to North America, South America, Africa and Asia. ... The International Air Transport Association is an international trade organisation of airlines headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. ... Airports Council International (ACI) is the leading international trade group of the worlds commercial aviation industry, based in Geneva, Switzerland. ...

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.)

• Aer Lingus (Belfast [begins 10 December 2007], Dublin)
• Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo)
• Afriqiyah Airways (Tripoli)
• Air Algérie (Algiers, Constantine, Oran)
• Air France (Ajaccio, Biarritz, Bordeaux, Calvi, Clermont-Ferrand, Nantes, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Toulouse)
  • CityJet (London-City)
• Air Malta (Catania, Malta)
• Air Mauritius (Port Louis)
• Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
• Atlas Blue (Marrakech)
• Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
• bmi
  • bmibaby (Birmingham [seasonal], Cardiff [seasonal], Manchester [seasonal], Nottingham/East Midlands)
• British Airways (London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow)
• Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
• Clickair (Barcelona)
• Continental Airlines (Newark)
• Darwin Airline (Cagliari [seasonal], Dubrovnik, Lugano, Olbia [seasonal])
• easyJet (Alicante, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Belfast-International, Berlin-Schönefeld, Birmingham [begins 14 December 2007], Bordeaux, Bristol, Brussels, Budapest, Bournemouth, Cagliari, Edinburgh, Glasgow-International, Ibiza, Lisbon, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Madrid, Malaga, Marrakech [begins 30 October 2007], Newcastle, Nice, Nottingham, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Orly, Porto, Rome-Ciampino)
  • easyJet Switzerland (Brussels, 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)
• Finnair (Helsinki)
• Flybaboo (Biarritz, Florence, Ibiza, Lugano, Marseille, Naples, Nice, Olbia, Saint Tropez, Valencia, Venice)
• Flybe (Birmingham, Exeter, Isle Of Man, Newquay, Southampton)
• Flyglobespan (Edinburgh)
• Helvetic Airways (Monastir)
• Iberia (Madrid)
• Iran Air (Tehran-Mehrabad)
• KLM (Amsterdam)
• Kuwait Airways (Kuwait, Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
• LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw)
• Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
  • 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)
• Middle East Airlines (Beirut)
• Norwegian Air Shuttle (Oslo)
• Olympic Airlines (Athens)
• Qatar Airways (Doha, Newark)
• Rossiya (St. Petersburg)
• Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca)
• Royal Jordanian (Amman)
• Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, Manchester, 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])
• Tunisair (Djerba, Monastir, Tunis)
• Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)

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Cargo airlines

• Farnair Switzerland (Cologne/Bonn)
• TNT Airways (Basel/Mulhouse, Liege)

Farnair Switzerland is an airline based in Basle, Switzerland. ... TNT Airways is a cargo and passengers charter airline based in Liege airport, Belgium. ...

Trivia

• The airport is shown in The Adventures of Tintin story The Calculus Affair.

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External links

• Geneva Cointrin International Airport
• World Aero Data airport information for LSGG