For those who fly regularly, living close to an airport might be convenient, but it’s also noisy. To reduce noise, Basel-Mulhouse airport has decided to reduce the number of flights taking off between 11pm and midnight by half, according to a press release. Unlike Geneva airport, which is located entirely on Swiss soil but still […]
Easyjet adds seven new destinations from Switzerland
Easyjet’s orange aircraft will head to seven new destinations from Geneva, Basel and Zurich starting from this winter. Flights to these destinations can be booked now. Geneva New flights from Geneva include Fuerteventura, one of the volcanic island making up Spain’s Canary Islands lying around 100 km from the coast of Africa, Inverness in the north of […]
Basel airport might be saved from French taxes
Last week in Davos, French foreign minister Laurent Fabius and Swiss Federal Councillor Didier Burkhalter agreed a way forward on discussions over the taxing of Swiss businesses at Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg airport. The airport is a French-Swiss public sector body based on French soil and governed by a convention agreed in 1949. Over the years France has […]
Swiss pulls out of Basel: Airline to move operations to Zurich
National carrier, Swiss International Air Lines is to stop its operations at Basel’s EuroAirport at the end of May 2015. The decision comes as no surprise (Le News passim) with the airline blaming a difficult political environment that offers little prospect carriers such as SWISS being able to operate profitably. Indeed, Swiss’ operations in Basel […]