Geneva Airport approaches reduced after multiple radar system malfunctions
Air traffic controller firm Skyguide is reducing capacity for approaches at Geneva Airport (GVA), Switzerland, after a radar system suffered multiple malfunctions.
Skyguide announced on June 2, 2025, that capacity would be reduced by 20% for the day while a solution to the problem can be implemented.
According to the company it has “experienced seven malfunctions of a system that provides radar images to air traffic controllers” in which “individual work positions lost the radar image for a few seconds”.
“This phenomenon occurred mainly in Geneva. The safety of air traffic was not endangered at any time,” said a spokesperson for Skyguide.
Measures to fix the issue have already been taken and an update of the affected systems will be carried out in the coming days, firstly at Geneva Airport and then Zurich Airport (ZRH).
A task force has been set up to manage the issue and is continuously monitoring and analyzing the situation. There are currently no plans to reduce capacity at ZRH.
“Skyguide regrets the inconvenience this security measure will cause for passengers and customers,” added the company spokesperson.
Radar problems at airports have become a focus in recent weeks after flight restrictions were placed on Newark Liberty Interantional Airport (EWR) due to outages at the Philadelphia Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON).
After the first outage on April 28, 2025, US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was adding “three new, high-bandwidth telecommunications connections between the New York-based STARS and the Philadelphia TRACON”.
It was also announced that the agency was “deploying a temporary backup system to the Philadelphia TRACON that will provide redundancy during the switch to a more reliable fiberoptic network”.
Commenting on the three system outages, Duffy said: “The most serious of these outages lasted approximately 30 seconds. The STARS displays took approximately 60 seconds to reboot and come back online. The outage was 30 seconds but then the displays took another minute to boot – that’s where you get 30 and 90 seconds, but the telecom was out for 30 seconds.”
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