international airport
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serving Grenoble which is situated 2.5 km north-northwest of
Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs
Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs (; literally 'Saint-Étienne of Saint-Geoirs') is a Communes of France, commune in the Isère departments of France, department in southeastern France. It is the hometown of Rose Valland, who saved thousands of work ...
and 40 km west-northwest of Grenoble, both '' communes'' in the
'' of France. The airport handled 307,979 passengers in 2019 and mostly features winter seasonal leisure traffic.
Formerly known as ''Grenoble–Saint-Geoirs Airport'' since the
1968 Winter Olympics
The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games (french: Les Xes Jeux olympiques d'hiver), were a winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 18 February 1968 in Grenoble, France. Thirty-seven countries participated. Frenchm ...
, its appellation of Isere, refers to the
department
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* Departmentalization, division of a larger organization into parts with specific responsibility
Government and military
*Department (administrative division), a geographical and administrative division within a country, ...
of
Isère
Isère ( , ; frp, Isera; oc, Isèra, ) is a landlocked department in the southeastern French region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Named after the river Isère, it had a population of 1,271,166 in 2019.École nationale de l'aviation civile is also located at the airport.