Geneva Cointrin International Airport

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Geneva Cointrin International Airport Aéroport international de Genève
IATA: GVA - ICAO: LSGG
Summary <tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Airport type</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Public</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" align="left" valign="top">Serves</th><td colspan="2" valign="top">Geneva</td></tr>
Elevation AMSL		1,410 ft (430 m)
Coordinates		46°14′13″N, 6°06′32″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
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 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.

The airport has a single large runway. It is a major hub for easyJet and a lesser hub for Swiss International Air Lines. Geneva Cointrin has extensive convention facilities and hosts an office of the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

In 2005, the airport served more than 9,411,105 passengers.

[edit] Airlines

(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 (Malta)
Air Mauritius (Mauritius)
Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa, Rome-Fiumicino)
Atlas Blue (Marrakech)
Austrian Airlines (Vienna)
bmi
- bmibaby (Nottingham/East Midlands, Birmingham, Manchester, Cardiff)
British Airways (London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow)
- BA Connect (Birmingham, Manchester)
Clickair (Barcelona)
Continental Airlines (Newark)
Darwin Airline (Lugano)
easyJet (Alicante, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Belfast, Berlin-Schönefeld, Bristol, Budapest, Bournemouth, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Lisbon, Liverpool, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Madrid, Malaga, Newcastle, Nice, Nottingham, Paris-Orly, Rome-Ciampino)
- easyJet Switzerland (Hamburg [starts December 1, 2006], Prague)
Egyptair (Cairo, 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 (Florence, Ibiza, Lugano, Nice, Prague, Saint Tropez, Valencia, Venice)
Flyglobespan (Edinburgh)
Iberia (Madrid)
Iran Air (Tehran-Mehrabad)
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
Kuwait Airways (Kuwait [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)
Pulkovo Aviation (St. Petersburg)
Royal Air Maroc (Casablanca)
Royal Jordanian (Amman)
Saudi Arabian Airlines (Jeddah, Riyadh)
Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda)
SN Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
Sterling Airlines (Copenhagen)
Swiss International Air Lines (Athens, Barcelona, Moscow-Domodedovo, New York-JFK, Zürich)
- Swiss European Air Lines (London-City, Malaga, Prague [begins Dec. 15], Zürich)
TAP Portugal (Lisbon, Porto)
TNT Airways (Basel/Mulhouse, Liege) (cargo flights only)
transavia.com (Rotterdam)
Tunisair (Djerba, Monastir, Tunis)
Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)
Virgin Express (Brussels)