Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport

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. The airport is named after Bologna native Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian electrical engineer and Nobel laureate.

Bologna
Guglielmo Marconi Airport

Aeroporto di Bologna-Guglielmo Marconi
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorAeroporto di Bologna S.p.A.
ServesBologna, Italy
Hub for
Elevation AMSL123 ft / 37 m
Coordinates44°32′07.6″N 11°17′19.2″E
Websitewww.bologna-airport.it
Map
BLQ
Location of the airport in Italy
BLQ
BLQ (Italy)
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
12/30 9,196 2,800 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers9,405,920
Passenger change 18–19 +10.6%
Aircraft movements77,126
Movements change 18–19 7.7%
Cargo (tons)48,832
Source: Vola Bologna [1]

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. [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
Aer LingusSeasonal: Dublin
Aeroflot Moscow–Sheremetyevo
Air Albania Tirana
Air Arabia Maroc Casablanca
Air Dolomiti Munich
Air France Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Air France Hop Lyon
Air Moldova Chișinău
Air Serbia Niš
Alitalia Catania, Rome–Fiumicino
Seasonal: Olbia
Austrian Airlines Vienna
Blue Air Bacău, Bucharest
Blue Panorama AirlinesTirana
Seasonal: Corfu, Heraklion,[4] Karpathos, Kefalonia, Kos, Lampedusa, Mykonos, Preveza, Rhodes, Samos, Santorini, Skiathos, Zakynthos
British Airways London–Heathrow
Brussels Airlines Brussels
Czech Airlines Prague
easyJet London–Gatwick
Emirates Dubai–International
Eurowings Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf
Finnair Seasonal: Helsinki
Georgian Airways Seasonal: Tbilisi
HiSky Chișinău (begins 2 July 2020)[5]
Iberia RegionalMadrid
Jonika AirlinesKiev–Zhuliany[6]
KLMAmsterdam
Lufthansa Frankfurt
Neos Boa Vista, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Marsa Alam, Sal, Sharm El Sheikh, Tenerife–South
Seasonal: El Alamein (begins 7 July 2020),[7] Heraklion, Ibiza, Karpathos, Kos, Marsa Matruh, Menorca, Mykonos, Rhodes, Zanzibar
Pegasus AirlinesIstanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca
Ryanair Alghero, Alicante, Amman–Queen Alia, Athens, Barcelona, Bari, Beauvais, Berlin–Schönefeld, Bordeaux, Bratislava, Brindisi, Bucharest, Cagliari, Catania, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Crotone, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Fuerteventura, Katowice, Kiev–Boryspil (begins 7 July 2020), Kaunas, Kraków, Kutaisi, Lamezia Terme, Lanzarote, Lisbon, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Lviv (begins 6 July 2020), Madrid, Malta, Manchester, Marseille, Odessa (begins 7 July 2020), Palermo, Podgorica, Prague, Santander, Seville, Stuttgart, Tel Aviv, Tenerife–South, Thessaloniki, Valencia, Vienna,[8] Warsaw–Modlin, Wrocław
Seasonal: Bristol, Corfu, Dublin, Gran Canaria, Heraklion, Ibiza, Málaga, Mykonos, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Zakynthos (begins 6 July 2020)[9]
Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen
Seasonal: Stockholm–Arlanda
SkyUpKiev–Boryspil
TAP Air PortugalLisbon
Transavia Seasonal: Eindhoven
TUI fly Belgium Marrakech
Seasonal: Casablanca
Tunisair Tunis
Turkish AirlinesIstanbul
Ukraine International AirlinesSeasonal: Lviv
Ural AirlinesSeasonal charter: Kazan,[10] Krasnodar[10] Moscow-Domodedovo,[10] Rostov-on-Don,[11] Samara,[10] Yekaterinbug[11][10]
Volotea Olbia (begins 3 July 2020)[12]
Vueling Barcelona
Wizz Air Bacău (begins 30 October 2020),[13] Bucharest, Budapest, Chișinău, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, Iași, Kutaisi, Sofia, Suceava, Timişoara, Tirana, Warsaw–Chopin
Seasonal: Katowice

Statistics
Passenger numbers at Bologna-Borgo Panigale[14]
Year Passengers Handled Change % Aircraft Movements Change % Cargo (tonnes) Change %
2000 3,524,789 6.1% 61,909 2.0% 25,034 2.3%
2001 3,440,051 −2.2% 56,746 −0.8% 26,197 4.7%
2002 3,414,475 −0.7% 54,956 −3.2% 24,959 −4.7%
2003 3,562,010 4.3% 56,738 3.2% 28,211 13.0%
2004 2,908,271 −18.4% 44,804 −21.0% 21,106 −25.2%
2005 3,690,953 26.9% 54,157 20.9% 25,469 20.7%
2006 4,001,436 8.4% 63,585 17.4% 32,465 27.5%
2007 4,361,951 9.0% 66,698 4.9% 18,700 −42.4%
2008 4,225,446 −3.1% 62,042 −7.0% 26,497 41.7%
2009 4,782,284 13.2% 64,925 4.7% 27,329 3.1%
2010 5,511,669 15.3% 70,269 8.2% 37,800 38.3%
2011 5,885,884 6.8% 69,153 −1.6% 43,788 15.8%
2012 5,958,648 1.2% 67,529 −2.4% 40,645 −7.2%
2013 6,193,783 4.0% 65,392 −3.2% 44,150 8.6%
2014 6,580,481 6.2% 65,058 −0.5% 41,789 −5.4%
2015 6,889,742 4.7% 64,571 −0.7% 40,999 −1.9%
2016 7,680,992 11.5% 69,697 7.9% 47,709 16.4%
2017 8,198,156 6.7% 71,878 3.1% 56,132 11.8%
2018 8,506,658 3.8% 71,503 0.2% 52,681 6.1%
Domestic destinations by passenger traffic (2018)[15]
PositionCityPassengers
1Catania395,367
2Rome295,627
3Palermo285,648
4Brindisi177,379
5Bari167,098
6Lamezia Terme165,553
7Cagliari126,093
8Napoli105,199
9Alghero104,677
International destinations by passenger traffic (2018)
PositionCityPassengers
1 Barcelona, Spain340,319
2 Frankfurt, Germany302,331
3 Paris, France298,522
4 London, United Kingdom (Heathrow)293,385
5 Madrid, Spain285,343
6 Amsterdam, Netherlands226,935
7 London, United Kingdom (Stansted)221,658
8 Munich, Germany203,185
9 Bucharest, Romania188,553
10 Istanbul, Turkey183,785

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, route BLQ, runs between the station and the airport. In case of events at the Bologna Fiere trade fair venue, BLQ operates a direct connection between the Airport and the bus terminus Fiera Viale Aldo Moro.[17]

Once completed, the Marconi Express monorail will connect the airport to Bologna Centrale railway station with a travel time of seven minutes.[18] At the moment, the nearest railway station is Calderara-Bargellino railway station, about 4 km from the airport. However, there is no public transport connection between the airport and that railway station, and limited train services stop at Calderara Bargellino.

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

See also

References
  1. "2018: BLQ chiude a 8.5 milioni!". volabologna.it.
  2. Terminal restyling and expansion Archived 28 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Telepass - Car Parks - Bologna Airport G. Marconi". Archived from the original on 29 July 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  4. Liu, Jim. "Blu Express expands Greek network in S20". Routesonline. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  5. Liu, Jim. "HiSky further delays service launch to June 2020". Routesonline. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  6. https://www.advtraining.it/news/70921-jonika-airlines-apre-la-kiev-bologna
  7. "El Alamein". neosair.it/en.
  8. Liu, Jim. "Ryanair / Laudamotion S20 network consolidation as of 18JUN20". Routesonline. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  9. https://corporate.ryanair.com/news/ryanair-launches-new-zakynthos-route-to-bologna/
  10. Liu, Jim (19 April 2018). "Ural Airlines adds Bologna scheduled charters in S18". Routesonline. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
  11. Liu, Jim (22 December 2017). "Ural Airlines filed 3 new scheduled charter routes in S18". Routesonline. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
  12. https://www.cagliaripad.it/454860/trasporti-collegamento-aereo-bologna-olbia-dal-3-luglio-con-volotea/
  13. https://boardingpass.ro/wizz-air-anunta-rute-spre-italia-belgia-germania-cipru-uk-si-danemarca/
  14. "Statistiche - Assaeroporti". assaeroporti.com.
  15. "2018 traffic statistics" (PDF). enac.gov.
  16. "Driving directions to & from Bologna Airport G. Marconi". Archived from the original on 2 July 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  17. "Linea Aerobus: Aeroporto - Stazione Centrale".
  18. "Il tracciato".

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