Overweight planes, snow and ash but Genevas airport still had record crowds

Geneva, Switzerland GenevaLunch -Geneva’s Cointrin International Airport posted a record number of passengers in 2010 despite discouraging factors such as economic gloom, skies gray with ash, runways thick with snow, strikes in neighbouring countries and even overweight planes. Some 11.9 million passengers used the airport, a 4.9 percent increase, and cargo traffic rose by nearly …