BLQ Bologna

How deep the BLQ board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from BLQ. This reads the same 114 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 78of the 114 destinations are flown by one airline
• 70destinations run less than once a day
• 8destinations have four or more departures a day
• 52.6%of the destinations name Ryanair, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at BLQ

62 airlines appear on the BLQ board and they do not hold it evenly. Ryanair is on 60 of the 114 destinations, 52.6 per cent of them, and on 38 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 84.9 of the 142 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Neos on 11 destinations. 47 of the 62 airlines at BLQ appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 60 of the 114 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on a BLQ sector is usually another Ryanair aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. That is why the alternate airports listed above matter more at BLQ than the destination count does.

How much of the BLQ board is daily

Of the 114 destinations, 44 are flown at least once a day and 70 are not, 14 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the BLQ board is flown 5 times a week.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: BLQ to Trieste (TRS) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 25.3 of the 142 departures a day, 17.8 per cent of the whole board. With 61.4 per cent of the 114 destinations running less than daily, this is a board that rewards booking the outbound before the collection is confirmed rather than after.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Bâle/Mulhouse BSL	France	Alpine Flightservice	1	447	the pair page
Belfast BHD	the United Kingdom	British Airways	1	1,662	plan this
Bergamo BGY	Italy	Enter Air	1	177	plan this
Forlì FRL	Italy	FJO	1	73	plan this
Karpathos Island AOK	Greece	Neos	1	1,684	plan this
London LTN	the United Kingdom	JTY	1	1,186	the pair page
Monastir MIR	Tunisia	Neos	1	977	plan this
Nottingham EMA	the United Kingdom	EAT Leipzig	1	1,304	the pair page
Roma CIA	Italy	JSD	1	322	plan this
St Helier JER	Jersey	NJU	1	1,147	plan this

The ten destinations out of BLQ where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 50 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from BLQ

The desk holds the return direction for 73 of the 114 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On four of them the return into BLQ runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Milan (MXP) at 0.71 out a day against 0.14 back, Cologne (CGN) at 1.6 out a day against 0.86 back and Istanbul (IST) at 3.3 out a day against 1.9 back.

It runs the other way as well: London (LTN) files 0.86 a day back into BLQ against 0.14 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at BLQ

BLQ keeps Europe/Rome time, two hours behind Dubai in summer and three hours behind in winter, because the clock here moves and the Gulf clock does not.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 07:00 at BLQ, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for seven hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at BLQ and still make a departure the same day.

The night at BLQ

12 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from BLQ that lands inside it leaves around 22:26, on a modelled block of 1h 34m. Into Frankfurt-am-Main (FRA) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from BLQ that lands inside it leaves around 21:33, on a modelled block of 1h 27m. Into Munich (MUC) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from BLQ that lands inside it leaves around 20:52, on a modelled block of 1h 08m. Those three departure times out of BLQ are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where BLQ turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Italy country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

The site publishes 52 airport pair pages that start or end at BLQ, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Bologna to Paris (CDG), Bologna to Palermo (PMO) and Bologna to Catania (CTA).

One of the 346 published hand carry lanes runs through this airport: Bologna to Frankfurt. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at BLQ written out.

15 courier postings name BLQ as the airport a courier here flies from: Bologna, Florence and Parma.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with BLQ already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 114 destinations above.