An agreement will be signed next week at the Le Bourget Airshow, Paris, between France and Switzerland confirming Geneva airport-based Skyguide’s (previously Swiss Control) air traffic control of French airspace as far west as Lyons, France’s second city. This is official confirmation of an existing partnership as Geneva has been responsible for ATC covering eastern French air space for many years.

Swiss airspace is among the most complex in the world and just outside Geneva there is a beacon that has the second densest overflight of aircraft in the world. The airspace controlled from Geneva includes western Switzerland, part of eastern France and part of northern Italy.

The signature of the agreement is a sign of recognition by France of the high standard of Swiss ATC services. In fact, France has five national ATC centres of her own that are able to cover the whole of France but prefers to call on the services of Geneva in the region. This agreement is another example of the particularly close relations existing in many domains between Geneva and France.

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