The sector is held by Neos and Ryanair.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BLQ Bologna to HER Heraklion
Bologna Airport, Italy, to Heraklion Airport, Greece. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About once a day
- Great circle
- 1,561 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 30m
- Door to door
- 9h 15m
What BLQ to HER looks like
The BLQ to HER sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bologna BLQ to Heraklion HER is a medium haul sector of 1,561 km by great circle, flown nonstop about once a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,561 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 30m.
Bologna BLQ is a large airport in the network held here, 114 scheduled destinations and 142 departures a day. Heraklion HER has 112 destinations and 149.8 departures a day.
Heraklion 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 HER from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLQ to HER | 1 | 7 | Neos, Ryanair |
| HER to BLQ | 0.86 | 6 | Neos, Ryanair |
Two carriers hold the sector, Neos and Ryanair, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 13 departures a week on BLQ to HER, 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 30m block time on BLQ to HER. 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 HER in the air, estimated | 150 min | 7h 00m |
| Formalities at HER | 90 min | 8h 30m |
| Delivery run in Heraklion | 45 min | 9h 15m |
| Door to door | 555 min | 9h 15m |
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 HER is 9h 15m.
A courier who leaves Bologna at 09:00 local is on the ground in Heraklion at about 12:30 local and at the door by 14:45 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Heraklion, the last useful departure from Bologna is around 12:15 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. 52 of them join BLQ to HER.
| Connecting at | BLQ to hub, flights a day | Hub to HER, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athens ATH | 2 | 14.57 | 1,594 | 4h 20m |
| Bari BRI | 1.86 | 0.57 | 1,561 | 4h 22m |
| Tirana TIA | 4.43 | 0.71 | 1,594 | 4h 26m |
| Thessaloniki SKG | 0.57 | 3.43 | 1,663 | 4h 30m |
| Rome FCO | 3.43 | 1.86 | 1,646 | 4h 40m |
| Belgrade BEG | 0.71 | 0.86 | 1,846 | 4h 45m |
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.
52 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Athens ATH, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about twice a day.
Through ATH the routing covers 1,594 km against the 1,561 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 20m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 1h 50m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Bari BRI at 4h 22m and Tirana TIA at 4h 26m 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 Heraklion, Kos KGS is 236 km away by great circle and carries 72 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Bologna to Heraklion 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 HER 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 HER airport entry
- Hand carry into Italy
- Hand carry into Greece
- The written lane, Bologna to Frankfurt
- The route calculator
More pairs through BLQ and HER: Bologna to Paris, Bologna to Amsterdam, Munich to Bologna, Madrid to Bologna, Barcelona to Bologna, Bologna to Dubai, Vienna to Bologna, Copenhagen to Bologna.