Geneva International Airport guide

Geneva Airport sits at the western tip of Lake Geneva, 4 kilometres northwest of the city centre and directly on the border with France. It is Switzerland's second-busiest airport after Zurich, serving as a hub for Swiss International Air Lines and an operating base for easyJet Switzerland, with routes concentrated on continental Europe alongside long-haul services beyond it.

A single runway, 3,900 metres long, handles nearly 180,000 aircraft movements a year. The airport is owned by the Canton of Geneva and run by Genève Aéroport, a public corporation. Its most distinctive feature is the French Sector, a part of Terminal 1 created under a 1956 agreement that lets passengers travelling to or from the neighbouring Pays de Gex region of France reach the airport without entering Switzerland or clearing Swiss customs.

The Aile Est extension opened in December 2021, adding six widebody aircraft positions for long-haul flights. Passenger numbers reached 17.8 million in 2024, 0.7 percent below 2019, carried on fewer flights as airlines shifted to larger aircraft.