The sector is held by Ryanair.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LTN London to BLQ Bologna
Luton Airport, the United Kingdom, to Bologna Airport, Italy. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 6 times a week
- Great circle
- 1,186 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 01m
- Door to door
- 8h 46m
What LTN to BLQ looks like
The LTN to BLQ sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
London LTN to Bologna BLQ is a short sector of 1,186 km by great circle, flown nonstop 6 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,186 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 01m.
London LTN is a major hub in the network held here, 169 scheduled destinations and 228.8 departures a day. Bologna BLQ has 114 destinations and 142 departures a day.
Bologna is one hour ahead of London 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 LTN to BLQ from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LTN to BLQ | 0.86 | 6 | Ryanair |
| BLQ to LTN | 0.14 | 1 | none held |
One carrier holds the sector, Ryanair, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
The two directions are not level: LTN to BLQ runs 6 times a week, the return runs about once a week, and a round trip has to be planned around the thinner of the two.
Between them the two directions put about 7 departures a week on LTN 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 01m block time on LTN 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 LTN | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At LTN before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| LTN to BLQ in the air, estimated | 121 min | 6h 31m |
| Formalities at BLQ | 90 min | 8h 01m |
| Delivery run in Bologna | 45 min | 8h 46m |
| Door to door | 526 min | 8h 46m |
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 LTN to BLQ is 8h 46m.
A courier who leaves London at 09:00 local is on the ground in Bologna at about 12:01 local and at the door by 14:16 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Bologna, the last useful departure from London is around 12:44 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 LTN to BLQ.
| Connecting at | LTN to hub, flights a day | Hub to BLQ, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venice VCE | 1.43 | 0.57 | 1,305 | 3h 57m |
| London STN | 0.86 | 1.57 | 1,196 | 4h 03m |
| Zurich ZRH | 0.86 | 2 | 1,195 | 4h 06m |
| Paris CDG | 4.57 | 5.14 | 1,209 | 4h 07m |
| Amsterdam AMS | 6.14 | 3.86 | 1,343 | 4h 17m |
| Frankfurt FRA | 0.57 | 4.86 | 1,302 | 4h 25m |
58 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Venice VCE, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through VCE the routing covers 1,305 km against the 1,186 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 57m 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 56m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, London STN at 4h 03m and Zurich ZRH at 4h 06m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves London, London STN is 41 km away by great circle and carries 218 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.
Plan London 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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Restrictions
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 LTN 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 LTN airport entry
- The BLQ airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- Hand carry into Italy
- The written lane, Bologna to Frankfurt
- The route calculator
More pairs through LTN and BLQ: Bologna to Paris, Bologna to Amsterdam, Munich to Bologna, Madrid to Bologna, Barcelona to Bologna, Bologna to Dubai, Vienna to Bologna, Copenhagen to Bologna.