Originally Posted by
Jonesdds
Im not sure I’ll be able to check in and get a boarding pass given it’s an international flight but will see. Wonder if showing a reservation next day will allow me to cross in the airport.
I don't think that you need a BP but you would need a ticket I would have thought that a next day reservation would be OK
If not sounds like from where I drop the car off I can walk a short distance and catch the bus to terminal on Swiss side?
Not really. Access to the French sector from landside is only possible via a customs road on which walking and cycling are not allowed and only private motorized traffic is allowed (there are no bus stop from there). If you cannot cross within the airport, then you would need to get a taxi (or have someone in a car to give you a lift) from the Terminal/French sector to the border post between Switzerland and France at Ferney Voltaire. If you search for "Route Douanière, Grand-Saconnex, Switzerland" in google maps, you will see that customs road. IF you follow it towards the West, the Terminal Building/French sector is roughly where it says "Hert rental cars - French sector" on google maps.If you follow the road in the other direction (i.e. towards the Northeast), it leads you to "Ferney-Voltaire (Douane)", which is the border post between Switzerland and France. The whole of the road from the French sector of the Terminal to the Ferney-Voltaire border post roundabout (about 5 km) can only be travelled on by private car or taxi.
If I was in your situation and did not have a ticket to fly from Geneva on the day you drop the car or the next day, I would make a fully-flex cancellable and refundable reservation to be able to cross the airport from the French to the Swiss sector on foot and get it refunded once in Switzerland, as traveling between the two points landside is too much hassle. That said, I don't know whether the French or Swiss border police in the airport would react to someone with a fully flex reservation and whether they would be suspicious or not. I don't quite understand why GVA still has those restrictions. I can see the sense of them during the covid era but don't understand why they have not been lifted since then.