The sector is held by Ryanair.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BLQ Bologna to CRL Charleroi
Bologna Airport, Italy, to Brussels South Charleroi, Belgium. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 834 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 34m
- Door to door
- 8h 19m
What BLQ to CRL looks like
The BLQ to CRL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bologna BLQ to Charleroi CRL is a short sector of 834 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 834 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 34m.
Bologna BLQ is a large airport in the network held here, 114 scheduled destinations and 142 departures a day. Charleroi CRL has 127 destinations and 115.6 departures a day.
Bologna and Charleroi keep the same clock all year, so the arrival time is the departure time plus the block and nothing else.
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 CRL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLQ to CRL | 1.86 | 13 | Ryanair |
| CRL to BLQ | 1.86 | 13 | Ryanair |
One carrier holds the sector, Ryanair, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 26 departures a week on BLQ to CRL, 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 1h 34m block time on BLQ to CRL. 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 CRL in the air, estimated | 94 min | 6h 04m |
| Formalities at CRL | 90 min | 7h 34m |
| Delivery run in Charleroi | 45 min | 8h 19m |
| Door to door | 499 min | 8h 19m |
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 CRL is 8h 19m.
A courier who leaves Bologna at 09:00 local is on the ground in Charleroi at about 10:34 local and at the door by 12:49 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Charleroi, the last useful departure from Bologna is around 14:11 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. 44 of them join BLQ to CRL.
| Connecting at | BLQ to hub, flights a day | Hub to CRL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marseille MRS | 0.71 | 2.43 | 1,283 | 4h 08m |
| Wroclaw WRO | 0.57 | 1.29 | 1,717 | 4h 11m |
| Prague PRG | 0.71 | 1.29 | 1,355 | 4h 15m |
| Budapest BUD | 0.57 | 2.57 | 1,825 | 4h 43m |
| Krakow KRK | 1.29 | 1.43 | 1,977 | 4h 46m |
| Barcelona BCN | 3.43 | 1.71 | 1,866 | 4h 53m |
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.
44 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Marseille MRS, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through MRS the routing covers 1,283 km against the 834 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 08m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 2h 34m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Wroclaw WRO at 4h 11m and Prague PRG at 4h 15m 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 Charleroi, Brussels BRU is 49 km away by great circle and carries 193 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Bologna to Charleroi 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 CRL 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 CRL airport entry
- Hand carry into Italy
- Hand carry into Belgium
- The written lane, Bologna to Frankfurt
- The route calculator
More pairs through BLQ and CRL: Bologna to Paris, Bologna to Amsterdam, Munich to Bologna, Madrid to Bologna, Barcelona to Bologna, Bologna to Dubai, Vienna to Bologna, Copenhagen to Bologna.