GVA Geneva

How deep the GVA board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from GVA. This reads the same 159 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 102of the 159 destinations are flown by one airline
• 93destinations run less than once a day
• 13destinations have four or more departures a day
• 49.7%of the destinations name easyJet, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at GVA

125 airlines appear on the GVA board and they do not hold it evenly. easyJet is on 79 of the 159 destinations, 49.7 per cent of them, and on 51 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 132.6 of the 227.4 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is SWISS on 22 destinations. 88 of the 125 airlines at GVA appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 79 of the 159 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a GVA sector is usually another easyJet aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. That is why the alternate airports listed above matter more at GVA than the destination count does.

How much of the GVA board is daily

Of the 159 destinations, 66 are flown at least once a day and 93 are not, 24 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the GVA board is flown 5 times a week.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: GVA to Warsaw (WMI) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 49.1 of the 227.4 departures a day, 21.6 per cent of the whole board. With 58.5 per cent of the 159 destinations running less than daily, this is a board that rewards booking the outbound before the collection is confirmed rather than after.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Aarhus AAR	Denmark	Excellent Air	1	1,161	plan this
Baden-Baden FKB	Germany	HUE	1	319	plan this
Belfast BHD	the United Kingdom	JFU	1	1,257	plan this
Bologna BLQ	Italy	GlobalAir	1	446	the pair page
Bournemouth BOH	the United Kingdom	FSF	1	773	plan this
Brno BRQ	Czechia	TIE	1	855	plan this
Calvi/Sainte-Catherine CLY	France	easyJet	1	464	plan this
Dresden DRS	Germany	NetJets Europe	1	782	plan this
Dundee DND	the United Kingdom	VistaJet	1	1,298	plan this
Fort Lauderdale FLL	the United States	Flexjet	1	7,675	plan this

The ten destinations out of GVA where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 63 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from GVA

The desk holds the return direction for 109 of the 159 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On eleven of them the return into GVA runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Roma (CIA) at 0.86 out a day against 0.29 back, Seville (SVQ) at 1 out a day against 0.43 back and Bâle/Mulhouse (BSL) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back.

It runs the other way as well: Bordeaux/Mérignac (BOD) files 2.9 a day back into GVA against 2.1 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at GVA

GVA keeps Europe/Zurich time, two hours behind Dubai in summer and three hours behind in winter, because the clock here moves and the Gulf clock does not.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 07:00 at GVA, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at GVA and still make a departure the same day.

The night at GVA

GVA carries a documented restriction, checked 2026-09-07. No scheduled movements between midnight and 06:00 local. That is a hole of six hours in the middle of the night. A movement that misses the last slot before 00:00 does not go until 06:00, and the courier spends the night here rather than at the other end.

16 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from GVA that lands inside it leaves around 22:53, on a modelled block of 1h 37m. Into Zurich (ZRH) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from GVA that lands inside it leaves around 22:10, on a modelled block of 0h 50m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from GVA that lands inside it leaves around 22:54, on a modelled block of 1h 06m. Those three departure times out of GVA are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where GVA turns up on the rest of this site

GVA carries two other pages on this site as well: the Switzerland country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the GVA transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 53 airport pair pages that start or end at GVA, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Geneva to London (LHR), Geneva to Madrid (MAD) and Geneva to Zurich (ZRH).

One of the 346 published hand carry lanes runs through this airport: Dubai to Geneva. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at GVA written out.

13 courier postings name GVA as the airport a courier here flies from: Geneva, Lausanne and Lyon.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with GVA already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 159 destinations above.