Copied-pasted from easyJet website:
easyJet is expanding further in Switzerland with a new service to London, from Basel's Euro Airport, which serves Basel, popular with business travellers and skiers alike; Mulhouse in Eastern France, and Freiburg in South West Germany, providing access to the Black Forest and the Rhine Valley. The airline already ranks as the biggest airline at Geneva Airport and recently announced that it was withdrawing its service from London Gatwick to Zurich Airport due an excessive increase in landing charges in Zurich.
EuroAiport also suggests in its Press releases in German and French that the daily flight Stansted-Basel might be only the start of a larger EZ operation at EuroAirport. Some people say it could base up to 4 or 5 planes in Basel.
If so, does any one knows what would/will happen with the planed extension of its GVA base? easyJet is negociating cheaper Pax taxes in GVA and a "simplified service" at the old GVA terminal in exchange for increasing the number of its A/C based there from 5 to 10.
AF reacted strongly, threatening GVA Airport with retaliation if it went on with this "discrimination" and "unfair competition".
In other words, is the easyJet move toward Basel a sign that the GVA plan stalled?