Geneva Cointrin International Airport

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Geneva Cointrin International Airport
Aéroport international de Genève

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 / 46.23694, 6.10889
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
05/23 12,795 3,900 Concrete
05L/23R 2,700 823 Grass/Earth
Airport entrance.
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.

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.

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(Note: Some of these airlines only serve GVA seasonally, especially the winter season.)

On September 2, 1998, Swissair Flight 111, bound for Cointrin from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, New York, crashed off of the coast of Nova Scotia due to an in-flight fire from an entertainment system. All of the passengers and crew died.

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