The sector is held by Norwegian Air Shuttle, Ryanair and SAS.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
CPH Copenhagen to BLQ Bologna
Copenhagen Airport, Denmark, to Bologna Airport, Italy. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- About twice a day
- Great circle
- 1,236 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 05m
- Door to door
- 8h 50m
What CPH to BLQ looks like
The CPH to BLQ sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Copenhagen CPH to Bologna BLQ is a medium haul sector of 1,236 km by great circle, flown nonstop about twice a day.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,236 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 05m.
Copenhagen CPH is a major hub in the network held here, 190 scheduled destinations and 470.6 departures a day. Bologna BLQ has 114 destinations and 142 departures a day.
Copenhagen carries about 3.3 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.
Copenhagen and Bologna 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 CPH to BLQ from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CPH to BLQ | 2.29 | 16 | Norwegian Air Shuttle, Ryanair, SAS |
| BLQ to CPH | 2.29 | 16 | Norwegian Air Shuttle, Ryanair, SAS |
3 carriers are recorded on the sector, so a missed departure is normally a rebooking rather than a lost day.
Between them the two directions put about 32.1 departures a week on CPH to BLQ, 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 05m block time on CPH to BLQ. Change any of them in the tool further down and the total moves with them.
| Stage | Allowed | Elapsed |
|---|---|---|
| Collection and the run to CPH | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At CPH before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| CPH to BLQ in the air, estimated | 125 min | 6h 35m |
| Formalities at BLQ | 90 min | 8h 05m |
| Delivery run in Bologna | 45 min | 8h 50m |
| Door to door | 530 min | 8h 50m |
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 CPH to BLQ is 8h 50m.
A courier who leaves Copenhagen at 09:00 local is on the ground in Bologna at about 11:05 local and at the door by 13:20 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Bologna, the last useful departure from Copenhagen is around 13:40 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. 66 of them join CPH to BLQ.
| Connecting at | CPH to hub, flights a day | Hub to BLQ, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leipzig LEJ | 1.14 | 0.71 | 1,236 | 3h 49m |
| Venice VCE | 2.14 | 0.57 | 1,261 | 3h 53m |
| Berlin BER | 6.71 | 0.71 | 1,251 | 3h 55m |
| Bergamo BGY | 3.14 | 0.57 | 1,303 | 3h 57m |
| Eindhoven EIN | 0.57 | 1.71 | 1,552 | 4h 07m |
| Prague PRG | 6 | 0.71 | 1,281 | 4h 08m |
One nonstop a day means one chance a day, so the connections below are what a consignment that arrives at CPH in the afternoon actually flies on.
66 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 5 times a week.
Through LEJ the routing covers 1,236 km against the 1,236 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 49m 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 44m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Venice VCE at 3h 53m and Berlin BER at 3h 55m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Copenhagen, Billund BLL is 220 km away by great circle and carries 69 scheduled destinations of its own, which is usually a shorter road transfer than a lost day.
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.
Industry within reach of the two ends
Public manufacturing and research sites whose logistics run through CPH or BLQ. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Volvo Cars, Gothenburg TorslandaAssembly, engineering and the group head office. Copenhagen carries the long haul when Gothenburg does not. Logistics through Copenhagen CPH.
- Novo Nordisk, Bagsvaerd and KalundborgDiabetes and obesity treatment manufacturing. Denmark's largest company by value, and a clinical supply chain that spans continents. Logistics through Copenhagen CPH.
Plan Copenhagen to Bologna 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 CPH to BLQ 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 CPH airport entry
- The BLQ airport entry
- Hand carry into Denmark
- Hand carry into Italy
- The written lane, Copenhagen to Boston
- The written lane, Copenhagen to Shanghai
- The written lane, Dubai to Copenhagen
- The route calculator
More pairs through CPH and BLQ: Bologna to Paris, Bologna to Amsterdam, Munich to Bologna, Madrid to Bologna, Barcelona to Bologna, Bologna to Dubai, Vienna to Bologna, Zurich to Bologna.