The sector is held by ITA Airways.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
BLQ Bologna to FCO Rome
Bologna Airport, Italy, to Leonardo da Vinci Fiumicino, Italy. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 3.4 times a day
- Great circle
- 314 km
- Block, estimated
- 58 min
- Door to door
- 7h 43m
What BLQ to FCO looks like
The BLQ to FCO sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Bologna BLQ to Rome FCO is a short sector of 314 km by great circle, flown nonstop 3.4 times a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 314 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 58 min.
Bologna BLQ is a large airport in the network held here, 114 scheduled destinations and 142 departures a day. Rome FCO has 232 destinations and 618.2 departures a day.
Rome carries about 4.4 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 Rome 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 FCO from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLQ to FCO | 3.43 | 24 | ITA Airways |
| FCO to BLQ | 3.29 | 23 | ITA Airways |
One carrier holds the sector, ITA Airways, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 3.4 times a day there is usually another departure within a few hours, which is what makes a same day booking on this pair realistic.
Between them the two directions put about 47 departures a week on BLQ to FCO, 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 58 min block time on BLQ to FCO. 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 FCO in the air, estimated | 58 min | 5h 28m |
| Formalities at FCO | 90 min | 6h 58m |
| Delivery run in Rome | 45 min | 7h 43m |
| Door to door | 463 min | 7h 43m |
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 FCO is 7h 43m.
A courier who leaves Bologna at 09:00 local is on the ground in Rome at about 09:58 local and at the door by 12:13 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Rome, the last useful departure from Bologna is around 14:47 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. 71 of them join BLQ to FCO.
| Connecting at | BLQ to hub, flights a day | Hub to FCO, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milan MXP | 0.71 | 1 | 746 | 3h 36m |
| Bari BRI | 1.86 | 8 | 967 | 3h 41m |
| Marseille MRS | 0.71 | 2.43 | 1,103 | 3h 52m |
| Catania CTA | 5.14 | 22 | 1,386 | 3h 53m |
| Palermo PMO | 5.43 | 21.57 | 1,133 | 3h 55m |
| Tunis TUN | 1.43 | 4.43 | 1,437 | 3h 57m |
With 3.4 times a day on the nonstop, a connection here is a disruption plan rather than a routing, and it is listed because a closed runway or a cancellation wave is exactly when nobody has time to work it out.
71 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Milan MXP, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 5 times a week.
Through MXP the routing covers 746 km against the 314 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 36m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 90 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is 2h 38m more than the nonstop, which is the price of a missed departure on this pair.
Behind it, Bari BRI at 3h 41m and Marseille MRS at 3h 52m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
The two ends are only 314 km apart in a straight line. Allowing a road track a quarter longer than that and eighty kilometres an hour, a car covers it in about 4h 54m, so a courier who misses the flight drives rather than connects, and on a short deadline the road is often the plan from the start.
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 Rome, Rome CIA is 29 km away by great circle and carries 47 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
Plan Bologna to Rome 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 FCO 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 FCO airport entry
- Hand carry into Italy
- The written lane, Bologna to Frankfurt
- The written lane, Dubai to Rome
- The written lane, Munich to Rome
- The route calculator
More pairs through BLQ and FCO: Bologna to Paris, Bologna to Amsterdam, Munich to Bologna, Madrid to Bologna, Barcelona to Bologna, Bologna to Dubai, Vienna to Bologna, Copenhagen to Bologna.