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Geneva Cointrin International Airport
Geneva Cointrin International Airport is an airport in Geneva (Switzerland) with the IATA Airport Code GVA. It is located at , 5 km from the city centre and has direct connections to expressways and railways (SBB-CFF-FFS).
The airport is a hub for Swiss International Airlines.
The following airlines fly to Geneva Contrin International Airport:
- Aer Lingus
- Aeroflot
- Air Algerie
- Air Dolomiti
- Air France
- Air Malta
- Air Mauritius
- Alitalia
- Antinea Airlines
- Austrian Airlines
- BMIBaby
- British Airways
- British Airways Citiexpress
- Cathay Pacific
- Continental Airlines
- Cyprus Airways
- Easyjet
- Egyptair
- El Al
- EAE
- Etihad Airways
- Finnair
- Iran Air
- Jet Aviation
- KLM
- Kuwait Airways
- Lauda Air
- Lufthansa
- Luxair
- Maersk Air
- MALÉV Hungarian Airlines
- Meridiana
- Middle East Airlines Liban
- MyTravelLite
- Olympic Airlines
- Privatair
- Pulkovo Aviation
- Regional Airlines
- Royal Air Maroc
- Royal Jordanian
- Saudi Arabian Airlines
- Scandinavian Airlines System
- SN Brussels
- Speedwings
- Swift Copters
- Swiss International Airlines
- TAG Aviation
- TAP Air Portugal
- Tunisair
- Turkish Airlines
- Virgin Express
On 2 September 1998, Swissair Flight 111, an MD-11 heading to Cointrin from JFK International Airport, crashed at night in the Atlantic Ocean, 50 miles southwest of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Smoke was reported in the cabin and the aircraft was trying to land at Halifax International Airport. All 15 crew members and 214 passengers perished.
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