The sector is held by Ryanair and Ryanair UK.
Airport pair · hand carry reference
MAN Manchester to BLQ Bologna
Manchester 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
- 1,389 km
- Block, estimated
- 2h 16m
- Door to door
- 9h 01m
What MAN to BLQ looks like
The MAN to BLQ sector, the carriers on it and the flying time, before anything is promised to anybody.
Manchester MAN to Bologna BLQ is a medium haul sector of 1,389 km by great circle, flown nonstop 6 times a week.
At the cruise speed this site models for 1,389 km, 830 km an hour, and thirty minutes of taxi at the two ends, the flight blocks at about 2h 16m.
Manchester MAN is a major hub in the network held here, 203 scheduled destinations and 374.8 departures a day. Bologna BLQ has 114 destinations and 142 departures a day.
Manchester carries about 2.6 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 is one hour ahead of Manchester 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 MAN to BLQ from the scheduled route statistics, both directions, with the operating carriers named.
| Direction | Flights a day | Flights a week | Operated by |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAN to BLQ | 0.86 | 6 | Ryanair, Ryanair UK |
| BLQ to MAN | 0.86 | 6 | Ryanair, Ryanair UK |
Two carriers hold the sector, Ryanair and Ryanair UK, which gives a missed departure somewhere to go without leaving the nonstop.
Between them the two directions put about 12 departures a week on MAN 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 16m block time on MAN 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 MAN | 90 min | 1h 30m |
| At MAN before departure | 180 min | 4h 30m |
| MAN to BLQ in the air, estimated | 136 min | 6h 46m |
| Formalities at BLQ | 90 min | 8h 16m |
| Delivery run in Bologna | 45 min | 9h 01m |
| Door to door | 541 min | 9h 01m |
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 MAN to BLQ is 9h 01m.
A courier who leaves Manchester at 09:00 local is on the ground in Bologna at about 12:16 local and at the door by 14:31 the same day.
Working backwards from a six in the evening handover in Bologna, the last useful departure from Manchester is around 12:29 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. 68 of them join MAN to BLQ.
| Connecting at | MAN to hub, flights a day | Hub to BLQ, flights a day | Track, km | Estimated, gate to gate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bergamo BGY | 2 | 0.57 | 1,390 | 4h 04m |
| Charleroi CRL | 3.29 | 1.86 | 1,396 | 4h 09m |
| Brussels BRU | 1.86 | 1.14 | 1,407 | 4h 09m |
| Venice VCE | 2.57 | 0.57 | 1,503 | 4h 12m |
| Dusseldorf DUS | 1.71 | 0.71 | 1,478 | 4h 16m |
| Luxembourg City LUX | 0.57 | 0.57 | 1,402 | 4h 18m |
68 airports connect the two ends on the scheduled network held here. The quickest of the dependable ones is Bergamo BGY, where the weaker of the two legs still runs 4 times a week.
Through BGY the routing covers 1,390 km against the 1,389 km nonstop track and takes about 4h 04m 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 48m more than the nonstop, which is close enough that a connection is worth taking when the nonstop is full or badly timed.
Behind it, Charleroi CRL at 4h 09m and Brussels BRU at 4h 09m hold the same connection, so a booking has three hubs to try before it has to wait for the nonstop.
If nothing suitable leaves Manchester, Liverpool LPL is 38 km away by great circle and carries 88 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 MAN or BLQ. Listed as industrial geography, not as customers of anyone.
- Airbus, Broughton, FlintshireWing manufacture for the entire commercial range. Wing components are large, scheduled and unforgiving, and the small parts that hold them up move by hand. Logistics through Manchester MAN.
- Nissan, SunderlandThe largest car plant in the United Kingdom. An island line supplied from the continent and from Japan. Logistics through Manchester MAN.
- AstraZeneca, Cambridge and MacclesfieldResearch head office and manufacturing. British research, global trial sites. Logistics through Manchester MAN.
Plan Manchester 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 MAN 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 MAN airport entry
- The BLQ airport entry
- Hand carry into the United Kingdom
- Hand carry into Italy
- The written lane, Abu Dhabi to Manchester
- The written lane, Dubai to Manchester
- The written lane, Bologna to Frankfurt
- The route calculator
More pairs through MAN 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.