Comments for Switzerland

Thanks for the update. I've marked the airport as closed for now, pending any more information.

nice, sometimes quite busy on the small circuit

Porrentruy Airport is closed. Must use Bressaucourt Airport since summer 2011. About 3 km SW of Porrentruy.

The Info freq is 123,500 MHz

close it down morons!1

127.700

great place, great landscapes and clear skies, whenever there is fog elsewhere :-). And a very nice Restaurant too!

Excellent food at the restaurant! Gorgeous salads!!

Flugplatz:LSPK(HASENSTRICK)

B) 09 DEC 2009 12:52 UTC C)30 JUN 2010 23:59 EST (B1231/09)

E) AD CLSD. ALL MARKINGS, WIND INDICATIONS AND BARRIERS REMOVED.

A very nice place close to Swiss alps! Homebase of eichair

http://www.hasenstrick.ch/

.. FSX missions;)

Lovely little airport!

Reply to @david:

Hi, Zurich LSZH is not far away by train and its super efficient!

Cheers,

Leo

There were only two open WiFi signals showing up in my departure area (the B gates), and both of them redirected to the same server error on 2010-03-14. Unless you have your own 3G stick, don't count on working online while waiting for your flight.

GVA is a only medium-sized hub, but it's slower than a lot of big airports like LAX or CDG.

When I arrived for an Air Canada flight on a Sunday morning, there were already hundreds of people in several confused long lines for the AC checkin counter more than two hours before the departure time, and service was very slow (most of them had skis in huge bags to check). The security line was also long and slow, and I heard loud British passengers complaining they were late for their flights. After security, you have to line up a third time to show your passport for exit control (that wasn't a long line), then you line up a fourth time to show your passport and boarding card at the gate about 30 minutes before boarding, then you line up the fifth (and final) time to board the plane.

The moral is not to cut it close: at least on the weekend, 2 hours early for an international flight from Geneva should be a minimum, not a maximum. Or if you can, pick an airport like Paris CDG or Frankfurt FRA that's a bit better organized.

Taxis are expensive in Geneva, even for the short distance from the airport to the Pâquis or downtown (CHF 34, more than EUR 20, for a few kilometers).

The good news is that you can take the train to the main station in the Pâquis in 10 minutes (there's a train every 10 minutes or so), or the 5 bus in about 20 minutes (it passes the exposition hall and the United Nations on the way). If you're staying at a Geneva hotel, when you check in you'll get a card for free Geneva public transit — including the tram, bus and train — for the duration of your stay, so the ride back to the airport will be free.

Did my first sole here a looong time ago! Note the shortness of the strip which makes it good for training.

I once served here when there were jets flying.

Thanks, Paul. I've switched it to the civil identifier, since that's more generally useful.

I think this is one of those airports where the military operation and the civil operation have different ICAO codes - if you google it, you get about 50/50 split between LSTA and LSMN. The ICAO "LocationIdentifiersbystate.pdf" says that LSMN is the military one.

viewing platform on the east side

This airport has been closed for a while now.

An anonymous OurAirports visitor who wanted to book a sightseeing flight from Bex airport sent in this information:

"Just in case you ever want to know the number for Bex Airport, it's 024 463 24 40, and when you call that, they give another number: 078 607 97 22 and when you ring that, there's a message that he's flying and he'll get back to me ..."