The sector is held by EAT Leipzig.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BLQ Bologna to EMA Derby and Nottingham
Bologna Airport, Italy, to East Midlands Airport, the United Kingdom. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a week
- Great circle
- 1,304 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 10m
- Door to door
- 8h 55m
What BLQ to EMA looks like
The BLQ to EMA sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bologna BLQ to Derby and Nottingham EMA is a medium haul sector of 1,304 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,304 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 10m.
Bologna BLQ is a large airport in the network held here, 114 scheduled destinations and 142 departures a day. Derby and Nottingham EMA has 91 destinations and 74.6 departures a day.
Derby and Nottingham is one hour behind 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 EMA from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLQ to EMA | 0.14 | 1 | EAT Leipzig |
| EMA to BLQ | 0 | 0 | none held |
One carrier holds the sector, EAT Leipzig, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The return leg EMA to BLQ carries no scheduled nonstop at all, so a courier coming back does it with a connection.
At about once a week the nonstop is thin enough that a consignment which misses it waits days rather than hours, which is the case for reading the routings below before promising anything.
Between them the two directions put about 1 departure a week on BLQ to EMA, 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 10m block time on BLQ to EMA. 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 EMA in the air, estimated | 130 min | 6h 40m |
| Formalities at EMA | 90 min | 8h 10m |
| Delivery run in Derby and Nottingham | 45 min | 8h 55m |
| Door to door | 535 min | 8h 55m |
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 EMA is 8h 55m.
A courier who leaves Bologna at 09:00 local is on the ground in Derby and Nottingham at about 10:10 local and at the door by 12:25 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Derby and Nottingham, the last useful departure from Bologna is around 14:35 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. 32 of them join BLQ to EMA.
| Connecting at | BLQ to hub, flights a day | Hub to EMA, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| London STN | 1.86 | 0.57 | 1,304 | 4h 12m |
| Cologne CGN | 1.57 | 1.86 | 1,390 | 4h 18m |
| Paris CDG | 5.57 | 1.29 | 1,334 | 4h 19m |
| Wroclaw WRO | 0.57 | 1 | 2,100 | 4h 40m |
| Dublin DUB | 0.71 | 2.57 | 1,947 | 4h 48m |
| Edinburgh EDI | 0.57 | 1.57 | 2,007 | 4h 53m |
32 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is London STN, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through STN the routing covers 1,304 km against the 1,304 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 12m 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 02m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Cologne CGN at 4h 18m and Paris CDG at 4h 19m 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 Derby and Nottingham, Birmingham BHX is 51 km away by great circle and carries 139 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 EMA. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Rolls-Royce, DerbyCivil large engine assembly and test. An engine on wing that is grounded is an aircraft grounded. Logistics through Derby and Nottingham EMA.
Plan Bologna to Derby and Nottingham 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 EMA 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 EMA airport entry
- Hand carry into Italy
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- The written lane, Bologna to Frankfurt
- The written lane, London to Derby
- The route calculator
More pairs through BLQ and EMA: Bologna to Paris, Bologna to Amsterdam, Munich to Bologna, Madrid to Bologna, Barcelona to Bologna, Bologna to Dubai, Vienna to Bologna, Copenhagen to Bologna.