GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss, Easyjet and Geneva airport all showed traffic up in 2012, figures published Thursday 10 January show. Swiss in 2012 carried 16.8 million passengers, a 2.5 percent increase and a record number for the airline, owned by Lufthansa, the parent company said in a statement. The Swiss seat load factor, at 82.4 […]
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Holiday weekend in Switzerland: sun back, duty free, Valais wines
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A note to GenevaLunch visitors: the four-day Ascension weekend taken by many Swiss businesses has begun. The cold rainy weather will give way to warmer temperatures and partly sunny skies starting Thursday 2 June. This is a popular holiday for travelling inside Switzerland, so traffic will be heavy frequently, not just during […]
Zurich airport traffic up in March, latest sign of economic recovery
Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Zurich’s Kloten Airport saw passenger traffic increase by 3.9 percent in March over the same period a year earlier. The airport had 1.88 million passengers in March. The strongest growth was in local passenger traffic, up 4.6 percent, while transit traffic grew by 1.5 percent. Freight traffic was also up, by […]
Lausanne Marathon to disrupt lakefront Sunday traffic
Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The lake road between Lausanne and La Tour-de-Peilz will be closed to traffic (residents excepted) Sunday from 07:30 to approximately 17:00. More than 10,000 runners are registered for the Lausanne Marathon and the road will re-open depending on when the runners finish. The marathon itself is just one of several events […]
What Geneva-Lausanne traffic jams cost the region
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – GenevaLunch, like a lot of other businesses in the area, was caught by the massive traffic jam in both directions, between Geneva and Lausanne Wednesday late afternoon. It lasted more than four hours, had traffic moving at a crawl on the autoroute, and side roads anywhere near the highway were also […]