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Switzerland's seven busiest airports by passenger traffic are Zurich Airport, Geneva Airport, Basel Airport, Bern Airport, St. Gallen Airport, Lugano Airport and Sion Airport. Only Zurich, Geneva and Basel exceed one million passengers per annum.
Geneva Airport (IATA: GVA, ICAO: LSGG) — formerly and still unofficially known as Cointrin Airport — is an international airport of Geneva, the second most populous city in Switzerland. It is located 4 km (2.5 mi) northwest [4] of the city centre. It surpassed the 15-million-passengers-a-year mark for the first time in December 2014. [5]
This is a list of the 100 busiest airports in Europe, ranked by total passengers per year, including both terminal and transit passengers.Data is for 2022 with a partial population of 2023 as statistics are released and is sourced individually for each airport and from a variety of sources, but normally the national aviation authority statistics, or those of the airport operator.
Buochs Airport: Geneva: Geneva: LSGG GVA Geneva Airport (Geneva–Cointrin Airport) 17,677,045 ... Zurich Airport (Zürich–Kloten Airport) 31,538,236 See also
Geneva Airport; Grenchen Airport; I. Interlaken Air Base; L. La Côte Airfield; ... Zurich Airport This page was last edited on 1 December 2018, at 07:42 (UTC). ...
Passport controls at the Schengen external borders of Switzerland at the international airports of Geneva, Basel, and Lugano-Agno (at Zurich Airport, this is carried out by the cantonal police in Zurich, at Bern Airport by the Bernese cantonal police), as well as random checks at the land borders (internal Schengen border) and inland document ...
The airport fire brigade is responsible for fire-fighting at Zurich Airport and is on standby around the clock. In the event of an emergency, the brigade must be able to reach any location on the airport grounds, an area of 880 hectares, in no more than three minutes by international standards.
On 25 September 1979 a light aircraft 'G-BGHR' left at 1pm from Stansted airport; it descended from 31,000ft to 12,000ft, in an exercise at 2.36pm; it flew in circles, after the pilot became ill from hypoxia, and the plane began to make four-mile-wide circular paths for six hours, moving south, and crashed in a French vineyard at Le Tremblay at ...