The sector is held by Ryanair and Wizz Air Malta.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BLQ Bologna to OTP Bucharest
Bologna Airport, Italy, to Henri Coanda Otopeni, Romania. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 1,172 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 00m
- Door to door
- 8h 45m
What BLQ to OTP looks like
The BLQ to OTP sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bologna BLQ to Bucharest OTP is a short sector of 1,172 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,172 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 00m.
Bologna BLQ is a large airport in the network held here, 114 scheduled destinations and 142 departures a day. Bucharest OTP has 153 destinations and 247.4 departures a day.
Bucharest is one hour ahead of Bologna all year.
The pair sits inside Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 14 written lanes that go into customs and ground detail this page does not.
Who flies the sector, and how often
Average daily frequencies on BLQ to OTP from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLQ to OTP | 2.86 | 20 | Ryanair, Wizz Air Malta |
| OTP to BLQ | 2.86 | 20 | Ryanair, Wizz Air Malta |
Two carriers hold the sector, Ryanair and Wizz Air Malta, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 40 departures a week on BLQ to OTP, which is the number that decides whether a seat can be found today or on Thursday.
The clock from collection to signature
The same ground timings the route calculator starts from, applied to the 2h 00m block time on BLQ to OTP. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to BLQ | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At BLQ before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| BLQ to OTP in the air, estimated | 120 min | 6h 30m |
| Formalities at OTP | 90 min | 8h 00m |
| Delivery run in Bucharest | 45 min | 8h 45m |
| Door to door | 525 min | 8h 45m |
On the desk standard ground timings, ninety minutes to collect and reach the airport, three hours at the airport before departure, ninety minutes of arrival formalities and a forty five minute delivery run, the door to door figure for BLQ to OTP is 8h 45m.
A courier who leaves Bologna at 09:00 local is on the ground in Bucharest at about 12:00 local and at the door by 14:15 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Bucharest, the last useful departure from Bologna is around 12:45 local.
When the nonstop does not work
Every airport that joins the two ends, ranked by when they land, among the ones whose weaker leg is dependable enough to plan on. Connection time is allowed for the size of the hub. 66 of them join BLQ to OTP.
| Connecting at | BLQ to hub, flights a day | Hub to OTP, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cluj CLJ | 1.14 | 8.14 | 1,303 | 3h 43m |
| Belgrade BEG | 0.71 | 2.29 | 1,173 | 3h 59m |
| Vienna VIE | 2.43 | 5 | 1,398 | 4h 09m |
| Budapest BUD | 0.57 | 1.57 | 1,312 | 4h 11m |
| Bari BRI | 1.86 | 1.71 | 1,435 | 4h 12m |
| Tirana TIA | 4.43 | 0.57 | 1,394 | 4h 18m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at BLQ in the afternoon actually flies on.
66 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Cluj CLJ, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through CLJ the routing covers 1,303 km against the 1,172 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 43m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 60 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 43m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Belgrade BEG at 3h 59m and Vienna VIE at 4h 09m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Bologna, Florence FLR is 81 km away by great circle and carries 35 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
If nothing suitable leaves Bucharest, Varna VAR is 203 km away by great circle and carries 45 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Bologna to Bucharest yourself
The same tool the dispatchers use, open to anybody and free. It is loaded with this pair already. Change either end, add a stopover or a preferred airline, and it works out the connection, the transit and the door to door clock, with the real departures underneath. Put it on your own site if it is useful to you.
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Where this came from, and where to look next
- Carriers and frequencies: AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics, retrieved 2026-09-07. Average daily flights, not a timetable.
- Distances: great circle from published coordinates. They read short against a flown track, which is why the block time above applies a factor to them.
- Block and connection times: the same model the route calculator lower down this page runs, at the same rounding.
- Restrictions: the airport notes file, checked 2026-09-07.
- Industrial sites: public company information. Nothing here says or implies that any company named is a customer of any courier operator.
Who publishes this. OnBoard Courier is a placement desk in Dubai. An assignment is carried out by a vetted partner operator, with the desk as the single point of contact from the quote to the signature. This page exists because our own dispatchers need the answer for BLQ to OTP in the twenty minutes before a promise is made, and a reference only one operator can read is not a reference. Free to read, quote and cite. Found an error? Tell us and we will correct it.
If you need something moved rather than looked up, the desk prices a hand carry in fifteen minutes.
- The BLQ airport entry
- The OTP airport entry
- Hand carry into Italy
- Hand carry into Romania
- The written lane, Bologna to Frankfurt
- The route calculator
More pairs through BLQ and OTP: Bologna to Paris, Bologna to Amsterdam, Munich to Bologna, Madrid to Bologna, Barcelona to Bologna, Bologna to Dubai, Vienna to Bologna, Copenhagen to Bologna.