Empty airports, big losses - Photo Peter Brodbeck
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The Geneva international airport (AIG) has lost at least CHF5 million as a result of the five-day closing caused by Icelandic volcanic ashes.
According to Francois Longchamp, president of the Geneva executive council, new measures are in place to facilitate partial unemployment.
“Everything that had been earned since the beginning of year, was lost in five days,” he says.
The AIG had earlier estimated losses at CHF3.8 million.
Geneva elections, Socialists lose seat
Update 15:40 Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Cantonal elections in Geneva for the executive council, the Conseil d’état, confirmed a rightward shift in the political mood, Sunday 15 November. The centre-right alliance won four of the seven seats, while the centre-left won three. Two women are on the council, and extremists on either side of the spectrum were eliminated.
On the centre-right: the Radical party’s François Longchamp, Christian Democrat Pierre-François Unger and the Liberal party’s Mark Muller were re-elected. They were joined by newly elected Liberal Isabel Rochat.
They said my baggage was in Athens...
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Geneva’s international airport has grown 40 percent. It showed off its new extensions 26 October. New areas for arrivals and baggage handling, a newly refurbished and centralized security process prior to departure, and more restaurants and shopping space will keep the airport competitive.
“The airport is the region’s economic lungs. Our prosperity and our status as an international city depend on its modernization, which has only just begun,” said François Longchamp, chairman of the airport’s board of directors.
