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
IATA: BLQ ICAO: LIPE
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Aeroporto di Bologna S.p.A.
Serves	Bologna, Italy
Hub for	Ryanair
Elevation AMSL	123 ft / 37 m
Coordinates	44°32′07.6″N 11°17′19.2″E
Website	www.bologna-airport.it
Map
BLQ Location of the airport in Italy Show map of Emilia-Romagna BLQ BLQ (Italy) Show map of Italy
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 12/30 9,196 2,800 Asphalt
Statistics (2019)
Passengers 9,405,920 Passenger change 18–19 +10.6% Aircraft movements 77,126 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

Airlines	Destinations
Aegean Airlines	Athens
Aer Lingus	Seasonal: 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 Airlines	Tirana Seasonal: Corfu, Heraklion, 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
Iberia Regional	Madrid
Jonika Airlines	Kiev–Zhuliany
KLM	Amsterdam
Lufthansa	Frankfurt
Neos	Boa Vista, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Marsa Alam, Sal, Sharm El Sheikh, Tenerife–South Seasonal: Heraklion, Ibiza, Karpathos, Kos, Marsa Matruh, Menorca, Mykonos, Rhodes, Zanzibar
Pegasus Airlines	Istanbul–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, Kaunas, Kraków, Kutaisi, Lamezia Terme, Lanzarote, Lisbon, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Lviv, Madrid, Malta, Manchester, Marseille, Odessa, Palermo, Podgorica, Prague, Santander, Seville, Stuttgart, Tel Aviv, Tenerife–South, Thessaloniki, Valencia, Vienna, Warsaw–Modlin, Wrocław Seasonal: Bristol, Corfu, Dublin, Gran Canaria, Heraklion, Ibiza, Málaga, Mykonos, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Zakynthos
Scandinavian Airlines	Copenhagen Seasonal: Stockholm–Arlanda
SkyUp	Kiev–Boryspil
TAP Air Portugal	Lisbon
Transavia	Seasonal: Eindhoven
TUI fly Belgium	Marrakech Seasonal: Casablanca
Tunisair	Tunis
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul
Ukraine International Airlines	Seasonal: Lviv
Ural Airlines	Seasonal charter: Kazan,[4] Krasnodar[4] Moscow-Domodedovo,[4] Rostov-on-Don,[5] Samara,[4] Yekaterinbug[5][4]
Volotea	Olbia
Vueling	Barcelona
Wizz Air	Bacău (begins 30 October 2020),[6] Bucharest, Budapest, Chișinău, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, Iași, Kiev–Zhuliany (begins 29 March 2021),[7] Kutaisi, Odessa (begins 30 March 2021),[8] Saint Petersburg (begins 17 December 2020),[9] Sofia, Suceava, Timişoara, Tirana, Warsaw–Chopin Seasonal: Katowice

Statistics

Passenger numbers at Bologna-Borgo Panigale[10]

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)[11]

Position	City	Passengers
1	Catania	395,367
2	Rome	295,627
3	Palermo	285,648
4	Brindisi	177,379
5	Bari	167,098
6	Lamezia Terme	165,553
7	Cagliari	126,093
8	Napoli	105,199
9	Alghero	104,677

International destinations by passenger traffic (2018)

Position	City	Passengers
1	Barcelona, Spain	340,319
2	Frankfurt, Germany	302,331
3	Paris, France	298,522
4	London, United Kingdom (Heathrow)	293,385
5	Madrid, Spain	285,343
6	Amsterdam, Netherlands	226,935
7	London, United Kingdom (Stansted)	221,658
8	Munich, Germany	203,185
9	Bucharest, Romania	188,553
10	Istanbul, Turkey	183,785

Ground transportation

By car

Motorway:

• A1 from Milan
• A13 from Padova
• A14 from Ancona[12]

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.[13]

Once completed, the Marconi Express monorail will connect the airport to Bologna Centrale railway station with a travel time of seven minutes.[14] 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

• List of the busiest airports in Italy
• List of airports in Italy

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 (19 April 2018). "Ural Airlines adds Bologna scheduled charters in S18". Routesonline. Retrieved 19 April 2018.
5. Liu, Jim (22 December 2017). "Ural Airlines filed 3 new scheduled charter routes in S18". Routesonline. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
6. https://boardingpass.ro/wizz-air-anunta-rute-spre-italia-belgia-germania-cipru-uk-si-danemarca/
7. https://www.uvidpustku.com/wizz-air-ukraine-italy/
8. https://www.uvidpustku.com/wizz-air-odesa-italy/
9. https://ru.pirates.travel/bilety/wizzair-otkryvaet-novye-napravleniya-iz-spb-letim-v-bolonju-veneciju-milan-turin-i-kataniju-ot-3600-tuda-obratno/138454
10. "Statistiche - Assaeroporti". assaeroporti.com.
11. "2018 traffic statistics" (PDF). enac.gov.
12. "Driving directions to & from Bologna Airport G. Marconi". Archived from the original on 2 July 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
13. "Linea Aerobus: Aeroporto - Stazione Centrale".
14. "Il tracciato". Archived from the original on 21 December 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2012.

External links

Media related to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Accident history for BLQ at Aviation Safety Network