Update with artist’s drawings, video link Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Geneva’s Cornavin station begins a major renovation programme next Tuesday, 18 January. Work will begin on the west entry hall and the ground floor of the station. Access from the west end of the station to tracks 1 and 2 will be changed and new […]
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Swiss flights to US start tougher controls
Geneva / Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The airline Swiss began implementing new security measures Tuesday 5 January, in response to requirements by the US for flights going to that country. Swiss airports will now do second checks, including full body checks, on people who hold a passport from, are resident in or transiting through any […]
Snow, charters double Geneva air passengers
Update 15:15 Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Geneva’s Cointrin Airport had nearly twice its normal traffic over the weekend, 19-20 December, thanks to winter weather and holidays. Charter flights, notably from the UK and planes rerouted from Paris, Copenhagen and Brussels because of heavy snow at those airports brought 100,000 people through Geneva over the weekend, […]
Airlines could ease liquids rules in 2 years
See all of GenevaLunch’s articles on the annual airline industry Iata meeting in Geneva 15 December Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The ban on liquids carried onto airplanes could end, but probably not sooner than in two years, says Ken Dunlap, director of security for North America at Iata (International Air Transport Association). Dunlap was talking […]
Geneva wines can hug French grapes again
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Geneva AOC wines can now move back, in 2010, to what many of them traditionally were: wines that resulted from the marriage of grapes from Geneva, Switzerland and the part of France that sits just over the border. The “mixed committee” charged, under the European Union and Switzerland agricultural agreement of […]