The sector is held by Twin Jet.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
LYS Lyon to BLQ Bologna
Lyon Saint-Exupery, France, to Bologna Airport, Italy. Computed from the scheduled network held on 2026-09-07.
- Nonstop
- 2 times a week
- Great circle
- 504 km
- Block, estimated
- 1h 15m
- Door to door
- 8h 00m
What LYS to BLQ looks like
The LYS to BLQ sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Lyon LYS to Bologna BLQ is a short sector of 504 km by great circle, flown nonstop 2 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 504 km, 720 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 1h 15m.
Lyon LYS is a large airport in the network held here, 122 scheduled destinations and 152.8 departures a day. Bologna BLQ has 114 destinations and 142 departures a day.
Lyon 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 LYS to BLQ from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| LYS to BLQ | 0.29 | 2 | Twin Jet |
| BLQ to LYS | 0.29 | 2 | Twin Jet |
One carrier holds the sector, Twin Jet, so a cancellation has no second nonstop behind it and the connections below stop being theoretical.
At 2 times a week the nonstop is thin enough that a consignment which misses it waits days rather than hours, which is the case for reading the routings below before promising anything.
Between them the two directions put about 4.1 departures a week on LYS 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 1h 15m block time on LYS 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 LYS | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At LYS before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| LYS to BLQ in the air, estimated | 75 min | 5h 45m |
| Formalities at BLQ | 90 min | 7h 15m |
| Delivery run in Bologna | 45 min | 8h 00m |
| Door to door | 480 min | 8h 00m |
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 LYS to BLQ is 8h 00m.
A courier who leaves Lyon at 09:00 local is on the ground in Bologna at about 10:15 local and at the door by 12:30 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Bologna, the last useful departure from Lyon is around 14:30 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 LYS to BLQ.
| Connecting at | LYS to hub, flights a day | Hub to BLQ, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venice VCE | 1.14 | 0.57 | 701 | 3h 17m |
| Munich MUC | 3.71 | 4.57 | 1,011 | 4h 00m |
| Rome FCO | 1.29 | 3.29 | 1,035 | 4h 02m |
| Paris CDG | 6.71 | 5.14 | 1,243 | 4h 10m |
| Leipzig LEJ | 0.71 | 0.71 | 1,593 | 4h 11m |
| Brussels BRU | 2 | 1.14 | 1,448 | 4h 13m |
55 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 701 km against the 504 km nonstop track and takes about 3h 17m in the air and on the ground at the hub, allowing 75 minutes to connect at an airport of that size.
That is only 2h 02m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Munich MUC at 4h 00m and Rome FCO at 4h 02m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Lyon, Geneva GVA is 97 km away by great circle and carries 159 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 LYS or BLQ. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- STMicroelectronics, Crolles, GrenobleWafer fabrication and research. The French Alpine cluster, an hour from Lyon. Logistics through Lyon LYS.
Plan Lyon 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 LYS 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 LYS airport entry
- The BLQ airport entry
- Hand carry into France
- Hand carry into Italy
- The written lane, Bologna to Frankfurt
- The route calculator
More pairs through LYS 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.