The sector is held by Eurowings, Ryanair and AirAsia Japan.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BLQ Bologna to CGN Cologne
Bologna Airport, Italy, to Cologne Bonn Airport, Germany. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 769 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 38m
- Door to door
- 8h 23m
What BLQ to CGN looks like
The BLQ to CGN sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bologna BLQ to Cologne CGN is a short sector of 769 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 769 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 38m.
Bologna BLQ is a large airport in the network held here, 114 scheduled destinations and 142 departures a day. Cologne CGN has 154 destinations and 168.6 departures a day.
Bologna and Cologne 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 CGN from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLQ to CGN | 1.57 | 11 | Eurowings, Ryanair, AirAsia Japan |
| CGN to BLQ | 0.86 | 6 | Eurowings, Ryanair |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
The two directions are not level: BLQ to CGN runs about once a day, the return runs 6 times a week, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
Between them the two directions put about 17 departures a week on BLQ to CGN, 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 38m block time on BLQ to CGN. 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 CGN in the air, estimated | 98 min | 6h 08m |
| Formalities at CGN | 90 min | 7h 38m |
| Delivery run in Cologne | 45 min | 8h 23m |
| Door to door | 503 min | 8h 23m |
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 CGN is 8h 23m.
A courier who leaves Bologna at 09:00 local is on the ground in Cologne at about 10:38 local and at the door by 12:53 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Cologne, the last useful departure from Bologna is around 14:07 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. 60 of them join BLQ to CGN.
| Connecting at | BLQ to hub, flights a day | Hub to CGN, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zurich ZRH | 2 | 2.14 | 780 | 3h 39m |
| Brussels BRU | 1.86 | 0.71 | 1,058 | 3h 39m |
| Leipzig LEJ | 0.57 | 1.29 | 1,131 | 3h 40m |
| Milan MXP | 0.71 | 1 | 829 | 3h 43m |
| Munich MUC | 4.57 | 6.29 | 862 | 3h 47m |
| Prague PRG | 0.71 | 0.57 | 1,168 | 3h 58m |
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.
60 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Zurich ZRH, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through ZRH the routing covers 780 km against the 769 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 39m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 90 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 01m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Brussels BRU at 3h 39m and Leipzig LEJ at 3h 40m 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 Cologne, Dusseldorf DUS is 54 km away by great circle and carries 176 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through BLQ or CGN. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Ford, Dearborn and CologneAssembly on both sides of the Atlantic. A single engineering organisation split across two continents. Logistics through Cologne CGN.
- Bayer, Leverkusen and WuppertalPharmaceutical research and production. The Rhineland cluster, two airports, one region. Logistics through Cologne CGN.
Plan Bologna to Cologne 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 CGN 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 CGN airport entry
- Hand carry into Italy
- Hand carry into Germany
- The written lane, Bologna to Frankfurt
- The route calculator
More pairs through BLQ and CGN: Bologna to Paris, Bologna to Amsterdam, Munich to Bologna, Madrid to Bologna, Barcelona to Bologna, Bologna to Dubai, Vienna to Bologna, Copenhagen to Bologna.