The sector is held by Ryanair.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BLQ Bologna to OPO Porto
Bologna Airport, Italy, to Francisco Sa Carneiro, Portugal. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 4 times a week
- Great circle
- 1,663 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 37m
- Door to door
- 9h 22m
What BLQ to OPO looks like
The BLQ to OPO sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bologna BLQ to Porto OPO is a medium haul sector of 1,663 km by great circle, flown nonstop 4 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,663 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 37m.
Bologna BLQ is a large airport in the network held here, 114 scheduled destinations and 142 departures a day. Porto OPO has 138 destinations and 208.4 departures a day.
Porto 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 OPO from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLQ to OPO | 0.57 | 4 | Ryanair |
| OPO to BLQ | 0.43 | 3 | 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 7 departures a week on BLQ to OPO, 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 37m block time on BLQ to OPO. 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 OPO in the air, estimated | 157 min | 7h 07m |
| Formalities at OPO | 90 min | 8h 37m |
| Delivery run in Porto | 45 min | 9h 22m |
| Door to door | 562 min | 9h 22m |
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 OPO is 9h 22m.
A courier who leaves Bologna at 09:00 local is on the ground in Porto at about 10:37 local and at the door by 12:52 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Porto, the last useful departure from Bologna is around 14:08 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. 58 of them join BLQ to OPO.
| Connecting at | BLQ to hub, flights a day | Hub to OPO, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ibiza IBZ | 1.86 | 1 | 1,930 | 4h 28m |
| Marseille MRS | 0.71 | 1.43 | 1,667 | 4h 28m |
| Palma PMI | 1.29 | 3 | 1,881 | 4h 39m |
| Barcelona BCN | 3.43 | 8.14 | 1,730 | 4h 43m |
| Valencia VLC | 1.57 | 1.71 | 1,842 | 4h 45m |
| Milan MXP | 0.71 | 1.57 | 1,719 | 4h 45m |
58 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Ibiza IBZ, where the weaker of the two legs still runs about once a day.
Through IBZ the routing covers 1,930 km against the 1,663 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 28m 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 51m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Marseille MRS at 4h 28m and Palma PMI at 4h 39m 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 Porto 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 OPO 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 OPO airport entry
- Hand carry into Italy
- Hand carry into Portugal
- The written lane, Bologna to Frankfurt
- The route calculator
More pairs through BLQ and OPO: Bologna to Paris, Bologna to Amsterdam, Munich to Bologna, Madrid to Bologna, Barcelona to Bologna, Bologna to Dubai, Vienna to Bologna, Copenhagen to Bologna.