The sector is held by Air Arabia Maroc and Royal Air Maroc.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BLQ Bologna to CMN Casablanca
Bologna Airport, Italy, to Mohammed V International, Morocco. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3.3 times a day
- Great circle
- 2,043 km
- Block, estimated
- 3h 07m
- Door to door
- 9h 52m
What BLQ to CMN looks like
The BLQ to CMN sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bologna BLQ to Casablanca CMN is a medium haul sector of 2,043 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3.3 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 2,043 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 3h 07m.
Bologna BLQ is a large airport in the network held here, 114 scheduled destinations and 142 departures a day. Casablanca CMN has 104 destinations and 130.1 departures a day.
Casablanca runs one hour behind of Bologna in January and 2 hours behind in July, because the two ends do not change their clocks together.
The pair sits between Africa and Europe, a corridor where the site already publishes 8 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 CMN from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLQ to CMN | 3.29 | 23 | Air Arabia Maroc, Royal Air Maroc |
| CMN to BLQ | 3.14 | 22 | Air Arabia Maroc, Royal Air Maroc |
Two carriers hold the sector, Air Arabia Maroc and Royal Air Maroc, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
At 3.3 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 45 departures a week on BLQ to CMN, 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 3h 07m block time on BLQ to CMN. 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 CMN in the air, estimated | 187 min | 7h 37m |
| Formalities at CMN | 90 min | 9h 07m |
| Delivery run in Casablanca | 45 min | 9h 52m |
| Door to door | 592 min | 9h 52m |
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 CMN is 9h 52m.
A courier who leaves Bologna at 09:00 local is on the ground in Casablanca at about 11:07 local and at the door by 13:22 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Casablanca, the last useful departure from Bologna is around 13:38 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. 35 of them join BLQ to CMN.
| Connecting at | BLQ to hub, flights a day | Hub to CMN, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seville SVQ | 0.57 | 0.71 | 2,117 | 4h 48m |
| Alicante ALC | 0.71 | 0.57 | 2,043 | 4h 51m |
| Valencia VLC | 1.57 | 0.86 | 2,052 | 4h 52m |
| Malaga AGP | 1 | 3.29 | 2,053 | 4h 58m |
| Marseille MRS | 0.71 | 2.43 | 2,078 | 5h 00m |
| Barcelona BCN | 3.43 | 3.14 | 2,058 | 5h 08m |
With 3.3 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
35 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Seville SVQ, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through SVQ the routing covers 2,117 km against the 2,043 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 48m 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 41m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Alicante ALC at 4h 51m and Valencia VLC at 4h 52m 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 Casablanca, Rabat RBA is 109 km away by great circle and carries 43 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Bologna to Casablanca 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.
Restrictions
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 CMN 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 CMN airport entry
- Hand carry into Italy
- Hand carry into Morocco
- The written lane, Bologna to Frankfurt
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Casablanca
- The written lane, Casablanca to Toulouse
- The route calculator
More pairs through BLQ and CMN: Bologna to Paris, Bologna to Amsterdam, Munich to Bologna, Madrid to Bologna, Barcelona to Bologna, Bologna to Dubai, Vienna to Bologna, Copenhagen to Bologna.