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Plans for the construction of a joint Swiss–French airport started in the 1930s but were halted by the Second World War.Swiss planners identified Basel as one of the four cities for which a main urban airport would be developed and recognized that the existing airfield at Sternenfeld in Birsfelden was too small and, due to the development of the adjacent river port facilities, unsuitable for ...
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.
EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg: 9,090,312 Bern / Belp: Bern: LSZB BRN Bern Airport (Bern-Belp Airport) 151,621 Bex: Vaud: LSGB Bex Airport: Birr / Lupfig: Aargau: LSZF Birrfeld Airport: Ecuvillens (de, fr) Fribourg: LSGE Fribourg-Ecuvillens Airport: Buochs (de, fr) Nidwalden: LSZC BXO Buochs Airport: Geneva: Geneva: LSGG GVA Geneva Airport ...
The Franco-Swiss airport of Basel-Mulhouse was evacuated and closed for a short while on Friday due to a bomb alert, hours before the Olympics opening ceremony in Paris was due to start, airport ...
The airline was established in 2003 in Basel by Moritz Suter, who founded Crossair which later became Swiss International Air Lines in 2002, and launched operations on 6 August 2004. Originally being intended as a regional scheduled carrier, it was relaunched on 1 May 2005 as a charter airline. [ 2 ]
Night flying restrictions or night-time curfews, [1] including night flight bans, are any regulations or legislation imposed by a governing body to limit the ground-perceived exposure to aircraft noise pollution during the night hours, when the majority of residents are trying to sleep.
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]
In the Faroe Islands, wild, unpredictable weather — fierce winds and rain, and thick fog that settles like a curtain — can sometimes make travel by car or ferry problematic.