Sion Airport Sion Airport Sion Airport (Military: LSMS) is the airport of the city of Sion, Switzerland and is located 2.5 km southwest of Sion city in the Rhone Valley. The airport opened in 1935. The following airlines offer seasonal and charter flights at Sion Airport: The nearest larger international airport is Geneva Airport, approx. to the west, while the smaller Bern Airport is equidistant to the north. The Swiss Air Force uses Sion as one of their four jetfighter air bases, the others being Payerne, Meiringen and Emmen. It is known as "Flugplatzkommando 14 Sion". In addition to the prop-types Pilatus
Maurice Sion Maurice Sion Maurice Sion (17 October 1927, Skopje – 17 April 2018, Vancouver) was an American and Canadian mathematician, specializing in measure theory and game theory. He is known for Sion's minimax theorem. Sion received from New York University his B.A. in 1947 and his M.A. in 1948. He received from the University of California, Berkeley in 1951 his Ph.D. under the supervision of Anthony Morse with thesis "On the existence of functions having given partial derivatives on Whitney's curve". Sion was a member of the mathematics faculty at U.C. Berkeley until 1960, when he immigrated to Canada with his