Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport

Bologna
Guglielmo Marconi Airport
Aeroporto di Bologna-Guglielmo Marconi
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Aeroporto di Bologna S.p.A.
Serves Bologna, Italy
Hub for
Elevation AMSL 123 ft / 37 m
Coordinates 44°32′07.6″N 11°17′19.2″E / 44.535444°N 11.288667°E / 44.535444; 11.288667Coordinates: 44°32′07.6″N 11°17′19.2″E / 44.535444°N 11.288667°E / 44.535444; 11.288667
Website www.bologna-airport.it
Map
BLQ
Location of the airport in Italy
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
12/30 9,196 2,800 Asphalt
Statistics (2017)
Passengers 8,198,156
Passenger change 16–17 Increase +3.1%
Aircraft movements 71,878
Movements change 16–17 Increase +6.7%
Source: Assaeroporti [1]

Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Bologna-Guglielmo Marconi) (IATA: BLQ, ICAO: LIPE) is an international airport serving the city of Bologna in Italy. It is approximately 6 km (3.7 mi) northwest of the city center in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, about 200 km (124 mi) south-east of Milan. The airport is named after Bologna native Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian electrical engineer and Nobel laureate. With 7,680,992 passengers handled in 2016, it was the seventh-busiest airport in Italy that year.

Facilities

Terminal building
Main apron

Terminal

There is one terminal, which underwent an expansion during 2011-2013. It now covers a total surface 36,100m2, of which 5,500m2 are shopping areas. A new baggage handling system was installed and there are now 24 departure gates, of which five are piers with two aerobridges.[2]

Runway

Bologna airport has one runway, 12/30, made of asphalt; its dimensions are 2,800 by 45 metres (9,186 by 148 ft).[3]

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Athens
Seasonal charter: Heraklion, Rhodes
Aer LingusSeasonal: Dublin
Aeroflot Moscow-Sheremetyevo
Air Arabia Maroc Casablanca
Air Cairo Sharm el Sheikh (begins 28 October 2018)[4]
Air Dolomiti Munich
Seasonal charter: Heraklion
Air France Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Air Italy Olbia
Air Moldova Chișinău
AlbaStarSeasonal charter: Karpathos, Ibiza, Rhodes
Alitalia Catania, Rome–Fiumicino
Seasonal: Ibiza,[5] Lamezia Terme, Olbia,[6] Palermo[7]
Seasonal charter: Heraklion, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes
American Airlines Seasonal: Philadelphia (begins 6 June 2019)[8]
ArkiaSeasonal: Tel Aviv–Ben Gurion
Austrian Airlines Vienna
Blu-expressTirana
Seasonal: Corfu, Kefallonia,[9] Kos, Lampedusa, Mykonos, Preveza,[9] Rhodes, Samos, Santorini, Skiathos, Zakynthos
Blue Air Bacău, Bucharest
British Airways London–Heathrow
Brussels Airlines Brussels
Czech Airlines Prague
easyJet London–Gatwick
Emirates Dubai–International
Ernest Airlines Kiev-Zhuliany, Tirana
Eurowings Cologne/Bonn
Georgian Airways Tbilisi[10]
HOP! Lyon
Iberia RegionalMadrid
KLMAmsterdam
Laudamotion Vienna (begins 28 October 2018)
Lufthansa Frankfurt
Neos Boa Vista, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Sal, Tenerife–South
Seasonal: Ibiza, Kos, Marsa Alam, Mersa Matruh, Menorca, Mykonos, Zanzibar, Djerba, Heraklion
Seasonal charter: Cancùn, Lampedusa, Mombasa
NouvelairSeasonal charter: Djerba, Monastir, Tabarka
Pegasus AirlinesIstanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Primera AirSeasonal charter: Aalborg, Reykjavík-Keflavík
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca
Ryanair Alghero, Alicante, Amman–Queen Alia (begins 29 October 2018), Athens, Barcelona, Bari, Beauvais, Berlin–Schönefeld, Bratislava, Brindisi, Bucharest, Cagliari, Catania, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Gran Canaria, Kaunas (begins 28 October 2018), Kraków, Lamezia Terme, Lanzarote, Lisbon, London-Luton (begins 28 October 2018),[11] London-Stansted, Madrid, Malta, Manchester, Naples, Palermo, Porto, Prague, Seville, Tenerife–South, Thessaloniki, Valencia, Vigo, Warsaw-Modlin, Wrocław
Seasonal: Bordeaux, Bristol, Chania, Dublin, Ibiza, Málaga, Mykonos, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes
Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen
Seasonal: Stockholm-Arlanda
TAP Air PortugalLisbon
Transavia Eindhoven
TUI fly Belgium Marrakech
Seasonal: Casablanca
Tunisair Tunis
Seasonal charter: Djerba
Turkish AirlinesIstanbul–Atatürk
Ukraine International Airlines Lviv
Ural AirlinesSeasonal charter: Kazan,[12] Krasnodar[12] Moscow-Domodedovo,[12] Rostov-on-Don,[13] Samara,[12] Yekaterinbug[13][12]
Vueling Barcelona
Wizz Air Bucharest, Budapest, Chișinău, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, Iași, Sofia, Suceava, Timişoara
Seasonal: Katowice

Statistics

Passenger numbers at Bologna-Borgo Panigale[1]
Year Passengers Handled Change % Aircraft Movements Change % Cargo (tonnes) Change %
2000 3,524,789 Increase 6.1% 61,909 Increase 2.0% 25,034 Increase 2.3%
2001 3,440,051 Decrease −2.2% 56,746 Decrease −0.8% 26,197 Increase 4.7%
2002 3,414,475 Decrease −0.7% 54,956 Decrease −3.2% 24,959 Decrease −4.7%
2003 3,562,010 Increase 4.3% 56,738 Increase 3.2% 28,211 Increase 13.0%
2004 2,908,271 Decrease −18.4% 44,804 Decrease −21.0% 21,106 Decrease −25.2%
2005 3,690,953 Increase 26.9% 54,157 Increase 20.9% 25,469 Increase 20.7%
2006 4,001,436 Increase 8.4% 63,585 Increase 17.4% 32,465 Increase 27.5%
2007 4,361,951 Increase 9.0% 66,698 Increase 4.9% 18,700 Decrease −42.4%
2008 4,225,446 Decrease −3.1% 62,042 Decrease −7.0% 26,497 Increase 41.7%
2009 4,782,284 Increase 13.2% 64,925 Increase 4.7% 27,329 Increase 3.1%
2010 5,511,669 Increase 15.3% 70,269 Increase 8.2% 37,800 Increase 38.3%
2011 5,885,884 Increase 6.8% 69,153 Decrease −1.6% 43,788 Increase 15.8%
2012 5,958,648 Increase 1.2% 67,529 Decrease −2.4% 40,645 Decrease −7.2%
2013 6,193,783 Increase 4.0% 65,392 Decrease −3.2% 44,150 Increase 8.6%
2014 6,580,481 Increase 6.24% 65,058 Decrease −0.51% 41,789 Decrease −5.35%
2015 6,889,742 Increase 4.7% 64,571 Decrease −0.7% 40,999 Decrease −1.9%
2016 7,680,992 Increase 11.5% 69,697 Increase 7.9% 47,709 Increase 16.4%
Domestic destinations by passenger traffic (2017)[14]
PositionCityPassengers
1Catania179,683
2Palermo134,413
3Rome117,504
4Brindisi87,998
5Bari86,117
6Lamezia Terme84,655
7Cagliari84,650
8Trapani72,483
8Alghero54,702
International destinations by passenger traffic (2017)
PositionCityPassengers
1Germany Frankfurt, Germany308,324
2Spain Barcelona, Spain293,617
3France Paris, France287,581
4Spain Madrid, Spain286,895
5United Kingdom London, United Kingdom (Heathrow)271,425
6United Kingdom London, United Kingdom (Stansted)224,195
7Romania Bucharest, Romania220,120
8Germany Munich, Germany203,565
9Netherlands Amsterdam, Netherlands200,341
10Turkey Istanbul, Turkey178,804

Ground transportation

By car

Motorway:

By bus and train

The airport is about 6 kilometres (4 mi) from Bologna Centrale railway station. A shuttle bus service runs between the station and the airport.[16]

Once completed, the Marconi Express monorail will connect the airport to Bologna Centrale railway station with a travel time of seven minutes.[17]

The airport has daily direct bus connections with Ferrara, Florence, Modena, Cervia and Ravenna; and three times a week with Ascoli Piceno.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Statistiche - Assaeroporti". www.assaeroporti.com.
  2. ↑ Terminal restyling and expansion Archived 28 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ "Telepass - Car Parks - Bologna Airport G. Marconi".
  4. ↑ "Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt". bologna-airport.it. 18 August 2018. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  5. ↑ "Alitalia S17 Short-Haul routes additions as of 01JAN17". Routesonline. Retrieved 2018-08-31.
  6. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 5 February 2017. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  7. ↑ 2018, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Alitalia schedules additional Palermo routes in S18".
  8. ↑ "American Airlines Expands European Footprint and Modifies Asia Service". American Airlines. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
  9. 1 2 2018, UBM (UK) Ltd. "Blu Express adds new seasonal routes in S17".
  10. ↑ "Data".
  11. ↑ "Ryanair Announces $200m Investment in London Luton with 2 New Based Aircraft - Ryanair's Corporate Website". corporate.ryanair.com.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 Liu, Jim (19 April 2018). "Ural Airlines adds Bologna scheduled charters in S18". Routesonline. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  13. 1 2 Liu, Jim (22 December 2017). "Ural Airlines filed 3 new scheduled charter routes in S18". Routesonline. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  14. ↑ "2017 traffic statistics" (PDF). enac.gov.
  15. ↑ "Driving directions to & from Bologna Airport G. Marconi".
  16. ↑ "Linea Aerobus: Aeroporto - Stazione Centrale".
  17. ↑ "Il tracciato".

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