The sector is held by Norwegian Air Shuttle.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BLQ Bologna to OSL Oslo
Bologna Airport, Italy, to Oslo Gardermoen, Norway. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3 times a week
- Great circle
- 1,741 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 43m
- Door to door
- 9h 28m
What BLQ to OSL looks like
The BLQ to OSL sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bologna BLQ to Oslo OSL is a medium haul sector of 1,741 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,741 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 43m.
Bologna BLQ is a large airport in the network held here, 114 scheduled destinations and 142 departures a day. Oslo OSL has 146 destinations and 378.2 departures a day.
Oslo carries about 2.7 times the departures of Bologna, so a courier who has to be rebooked has far more to work with at one end of this pair than at the other.
Bologna and Oslo 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 OSL from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLQ to OSL | 0.43 | 3 | Norwegian Air Shuttle |
| OSL to BLQ | 0.43 | 3 | Norwegian Air Shuttle |
One carrier holds the sector, Norwegian Air Shuttle, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
Between them the two directions put about 6 departures a week on BLQ to OSL, 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 43m block time on BLQ to OSL. 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 OSL in the air, estimated | 163 min | 7h 13m |
| Formalities at OSL | 90 min | 8h 43m |
| Delivery run in Oslo | 45 min | 9h 28m |
| Door to door | 568 min | 9h 28m |
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 OSL is 9h 28m.
A courier who leaves Bologna at 09:00 local is on the ground in Oslo at about 11:43 local and at the door by 13:58 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Oslo, the last useful departure from Bologna is around 13:02 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. 55 of them join BLQ to OSL.
| Connecting at | BLQ to hub, flights a day | Hub to OSL, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leipzig LEJ | 0.57 | 0.86 | 1,747 | 4h 23m |
| Eindhoven EIN | 1.71 | 0.71 | 1,920 | 4h 27m |
| Berlin BER | 0.71 | 3.71 | 1,768 | 4h 31m |
| Copenhagen CPH | 2.29 | 22.29 | 1,753 | 4h 36m |
| Dusseldorf DUS | 0.71 | 1.29 | 1,849 | 4h 37m |
| Prague PRG | 0.71 | 1.71 | 1,798 | 4h 40m |
55 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Leipzig LEJ, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through LEJ the routing covers 1,747 km against the 1,741 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 23m 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 40m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Eindhoven EIN at 4h 27m and Berlin BER at 4h 31m 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.
Plan Bologna to Oslo 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 OSL 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 OSL airport entry
- Hand carry into Italy
- Hand carry into Norway
- The written lane, Bologna to Frankfurt
- The written lane, Dubai to Oslo
- The route calculator
More pairs through BLQ and OSL: Bologna to Paris, Bologna to Amsterdam, Munich to Bologna, Madrid to Bologna, Barcelona to Bologna, Bologna to Dubai, Vienna to Bologna, Copenhagen to Bologna.