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Description
EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg (D: Flughafen Basel-Mülhausen-Freiburg; F: Aéroport de Bâle-Mulhouse Fribourg), also known as EuroAirport or simply Basel-Mulhouse is the international airport that servers the city of Basel (CH), Mulhouse (F) and Freiburg (D). It's 6Km (3.7mi) North-west of Basel, 30Km (18Mi) South-east of Mulhouse and 77Km (47mi) South-west of Freiburg.
Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg is the only developed airport in FlightGear that is operated by 3 countries (Switzerland, France and Germany), hence the name "EuroAirport". The Airport lies completely in French soil (with public transport connections from Switzerland operated by SBB [Swiss Federal Railworks] and a local Bus line from Basel), but the airport is categorized as a Swiss airport. The reason why is because it used to be the former Swissair's Hub until 2001, after it's bankruptcy . Currently, the only Real airline with a Hub in Basel-Mulhouse is EasyJet Switzerland.
Because of the EuroAirport being binationality, it has 3 IATA's: BSL (The Swiss code for Basel), MLH (The French code for Mulhouse) and EAP (international code for EuroAirport). This airport has a similar state to Geneva's Airport, excluding the multiple IATAs. Its ICAO code is LFSB.