The city is also directly linked by train to the Geneva International Airport, four times an hour, in 42min.

The second largest airport, Geneva Cointrin, handled 10. 8 million passengers and the third largest Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg Airport 4. 3 million passengers, both airports being shared with France.

Since its inaugural flight from Geneva to Tel Aviv in September 1948, the airline has grown to serve some 34 destinations, operating scheduled domestic and international services and cargo flights to Europe, North America, Africa and the Near and Far East from its main base in Ben Gurion International Airport.

A Libyan Arab Airlines Sud Aviation Caravelle at Geneva International Airport ( 1971 ).

The closest airport to Morzine is Geneva Cointrin International Airport, Switzerland.

Geneva International Airport, formerly known as Cointrin Airport and officially as Genève Aéroport, is an airport serving Geneva, Switzerland.

Geneva International Airport has extensive convention facilities and hosts an office of the International Air Transport Association ( IATA ) and the world headquarters of Airports Council International ( ACI ).

This was the original terminal at Geneva Airport.

Geneva Airport wanted to refurbish T2 as a low-cost terminal.

In 1930 there were six airlines that flew to Geneva Airport, flying seven different routes.

As of January 2012, and according to the official web site, Geneva International Airport was looking for a new team to develop the terminal landside.

The canton is served by an international airport at Cointrin ( Geneva International Airport ) which has one terminal only.

Swissair Flight 111 ( SR-111, SWR-111 ) was a Swissair McDonnell Douglas MD-11 on a scheduled airline flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, United States to Cointrin International Airport in Geneva, Switzerland.

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* Geneva Airport – Biel / Bienne – Zurich – St. Gallen

PrivatAir is a private airline business, headquartered at Geneva International Airport in Meyrin, Switzerland.

It has main bases at Geneva Cointrin International Airport ( GVA ), Frankfurt Airport ( FRA ), Munich International Airport ( MUC ), Amsterdam Schiphol Airport ( AMS ) and Zürich Airport ( ZRH ).

* 1864 – 12 nations sign the First Geneva Convention.

* 1553 – Michael Servetus is arrested by John Calvin in Geneva.

* 1954 – The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.

* 1976 – Geneva Cruz, Filipino singer ( Smokey Mountain )

* 1988 – In a United Nations ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, the Soviet Union signs an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.

), Challenges of Security Sector Governance in West Africa, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces / Lit Verlag, June 2008, pp 75 – 92

The Swiss teacher, author and caricature artist Rodolphe Töpffer ( Geneva, 1799 – 1846 ) is considered the father of the modern comic strips.

* 1602 – A surprise attack by forces under the command of the Duke of Savoy and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain, is repelled by the citizens of Geneva.

He grew up on the campus of Stanford University, where his father was a professor, and he attended the International School of Geneva in 1958 – 1959.

* 1988 – Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat gives a speech at the United Nations General Assembly in the Swiss city of Geneva after the United States authorities refused to give him a visa to enter New York.

* Klaus Scherer ( born 1943 ) – Swiss psychologist and director of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences in Geneva ; he specializes in the psychology of emotion

Firmin Abauzit ( 1679 – 1767 ) was a French scholar who worked on physics, theology and philosophy, and served as librarian in Geneva ( Switzerland ) during his final 40 years.

By the 18th century, however, Geneva had come under the influence of Catholic France, which cultivated the city elite, who tended to be at odds with the ordinary townsfolk – to the point that an abortive revolution took place in 1782.

Civic Buildings: Former Arsenal and Archives of the City of Genève, Former Crédit Lyonnais, Former Hôtel Buisson, Former Hôtel du Résident de France et Bibliothèque de la Société de lecture de Genève, Former école des arts industriels, Archives d ' État de Genève ( Annexe ), Bâtiment des forces motrices, Library de Genève, Library juive de Genève « Gérard Nordmann », Cabinet des estampes, Centre d ' Iconographie genevoise, Collège Calvin, Ecole Geisendorf, Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève ( HUG ), Hôtel de Ville et tour Baudet, Immeuble Clarté at Rue Saint-Laurent 2 and 4, Immeubles House Rotonde at Rue Charles-Giron 11 – 19, Immeubles at Rue Beauregard 2, 4, 6, 8, Immeubles at Rue de la Corraterie 10 – 26, Immeubles at Rue des Granges 2 – 6, Immeuble at Rue des Granges 8, Immeubles at Rue des Granges 10 and 12, Immeuble at Rue des Granges 14, Immeuble and Former Armory at Rue des Granges 16, Immeubles at Rue Pierre Fatio 7 and 9, House de Saussure at Rue de la Cité 24, House Des arts du Grütli at Rue du Général-Dufour 16, House Royale et les deux immeubles à côté at Quai Gustave Ador 44 – 50, Tavel House at Rue du Puits-St-Pierre 6, Turrettini House at Rue de l ' Hôtel-de-Ville 8 and 10, Brunswick Monument, Palais de Justice, Palais de l ' Athénée, Palais des Nations with library and archives of the SDN and ONU, Palais Eynard et Archives de la ville de Genève, Palais Wilson, Parc des Bastions avec Mur des Réformateurs, Place Neuve et Monument du Général Dufour, Pont de la Machine, Pont sur l ' Arve, Poste du Mont-Blanc, Quai du Mont-Blanc, Quai et Hôtel des Bergues, Quai Général Guisan and English Gardens, Quai Gustave-Ador and Jet d ' eau, Télévision Suisse Romande, university of Geneva, Victoria Hall

** Food irradiation – A technique for preserving and improving the safety of Food, WHO, Geneva, 1991 ( revised )

* 1929 – The Geneva Convention of 1929, dealing with treatment of prisoners-of-war, is signed by 53 nations.

* 1991 – Representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

* 1954 – First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.

* History ( 1919 – 1946 ) from the United Nations Office at Geneva

* 1538 – Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city.

* 1985 – Cold War: In Geneva, U. S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.

* 1981 – Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe ( the meetings ended inconclusively on December 17 ).