Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport

Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Bologna-Guglielmo Marconi) (IATA: BLQ, ICAO: LIPE) is an international airport serving the city of Bologna in Italy. It is approximately 6 km (3.7 mi) northwest of the city centre in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. The airport is named after Bologna native Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian electrical engineer and Nobel laureate.[2]

Bologna
Guglielmo Marconi Airport

Aeroporto di Bologna-Guglielmo Marconi
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorAeroporto di Bologna S.p.A.
ServesBologna, Italy
Hub forRyanair
Elevation AMSL123 ft / 37 m
Coordinates44°32′07.6″N 11°17′19.2″E
Websitewww.bologna-airport.it
Map
BLQ
Location of the airport in Italy
BLQ
BLQ (Italy)
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
12/30 9,196 2,800 Asphalt
Statistics (2021)
Passengers4,103,813
Passenger change 20-21 63.7%
Aircraft movements42,477
Movements change 20-21 40.9%
Cargo (tons)50,121
Cargo change 20-21 15.5%
Source: Assaeroporti[1]

History

In June 2005, Eurofly began flying nonstop from Bologna to New York City using Airbus A330s.[3][4] The route lasted until 2008.[5] Over a decade later, direct service to the United States resumed. American Airlines introduced a seasonal link to Philadelphia in June 2019.[6][7] Given Bologna's proximity to Tuscany, the company anticipated that tourists bound for the region would take the flight. However, in August the airline stated that it would not return the following summer, as the financial performance of the route had not met its expectations.[8]

Facilities
Terminal building
Main apron

Terminal

There is one terminal, which underwent an expansion during 2011–2013. It now covers a total surface 36,100m2, of which 5,500m2 are shopping areas. A new baggage handling system was installed and there are now 24 departure gates.[9]

Runway

Bologna airport has one runway, 12/30, made of asphalt; its dimensions are 2,800 by 45 metres (9,186 by 148 ft).[10]

Airlines and destinations
AirlinesDestinations
Aegean Airlines Athens
Air Albania Tirana
Air Arabia Casablanca
Air Dolomiti Munich
Air France Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Air France Hop Lyon
Air Moldova Chișinău
Air SerbiaBelgrade (begins 6 June 2022)[11]
AlbaStar Seasonal: Lampedusa (begins 5 June 2022)[12]
Albawings Tirana
Austrian Airlines Vienna
British Airways London–Heathrow
Brussels Airlines Brussels
easyJet London–Gatwick
Emirates Dubai–International
Eurowings Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf
Iberia Regional Madrid
ITA Airways Rome–Fiumicino
KLM Amsterdam
Lufthansa Frankfurt
Luxair Luxembourg
Neos Boa Vista, Fuerteventura, Marsa Alam, Sal, Sharm El Sheikh, Tenerife–South
Seasonal: Djerba, Heraklion, Ibiza, Karpathos, Kos, Menorca, Monastir, Mykonos, Rhodes, Zanzibar
Pegasus Airlines Istanbul–Sabiha Gökçen
PLAY Reykjavík–Keflavík (begins 7 June 2022)[13]
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca
Ryanair Alghero, Alicante, Amman–Queen Alia, Athens, Barcelona, Bari, Beauvais, Berlin, Billund, Brindisi, Bucharest, Budapest, Cagliari, Catania, Charleroi, Cologne/Bonn, Copenhagen, Crotone, Dublin, Edinburgh, Eindhoven, Fez, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Katowice, Kraków, Lamezia Terme, Lanzarote, Lisbon, London–Luton, London–Stansted, Madrid, Málaga, Malta, Manchester, Marseille, Nuremberg, Oradea, Palermo, Paphos, Porto, Prague, Santander, Santiago de Compostela, Seville, Sibiu, Sofia, Stockholm–Arlanda, Tel Aviv, Tenerife–South, Thessaloniki, Trapani, Valencia, Vienna, Warsaw–Modlin, Wrocław, Zaragoza
Seasonal: Agadir, Bordeaux, Corfu, Chania, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kos, Menorca, Mykonos, Palma de Mallorca, Podgorica, Preveza/Lefkada, Rhodes, Zadar
Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen
Seasonal: Stockholm–Arlanda
Swiss International Air Lines Zurich
TAP Air Portugal Lisbon
Transavia Eindhoven
TUI fly Belgium Marrakech
Tunisair Tunis
Turkish Airlines Istanbul
Ukraine International Airlines Seasonal: Lviv
Volotea Olbia
Vueling Barcelona, Paris–Orly
Wizz Air Bacau, Bucharest, Budapest, Catania, Chișinău, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, Iași, Palermo, Skopje, Sofia, Suceava, Timișoara, Tirana, Warsaw–Chopin
Seasonal: Olbia

Statistics
Annual passenger traffic at BLQ airport. See source Wikidata query.
Passenger numbers at Bologna-Borgo Panigale[14]
Year Passengers Handled Change % Aircraft Movements Change % Cargo (tonnes) Change %
2000 3,524,789 6.1% 61,909 2.0% 25,034 2.3%
2001 3,440,051 −2.2% 56,746 −0.8% 26,197 4.7%
2002 3,414,475 −0.7% 54,956 −3.2% 24,959 −4.7%
2003 3,562,010 4.3% 56,738 3.2% 28,211 13.0%
2004 2,908,271 −18.4% 44,804 −21.0% 21,106 −25.2%
2005 3,690,953 26.9% 54,157 20.9% 25,469 20.7%
2006 4,001,436 8.4% 63,585 17.4% 32,465 27.5%
2007 4,361,951 9.0% 66,698 4.9% 18,700 −42.4%
2008 4,225,446 −3.1% 62,042 −7.0% 26,497 41.7%
2009 4,782,284 13.2% 64,925 4.7% 27,329 3.1%
2010 5,511,669 15.3% 70,269 8.2% 37,800 38.3%
2011 5,885,884 6.8% 69,153 −1.6% 43,788 15.8%
2012 5,958,648 1.2% 67,529 −2.4% 40,645 −7.2%
2013 6,193,783 4.0% 65,392 −3.2% 44,150 8.6%
2014 6,580,481 6.2% 65,058 −0.5% 41,789 −5.4%
2015 6,889,742 4.7% 64,571 −0.7% 40,999 −1.9%
2016 7,680,992 11.5% 69,697 7.9% 47,709 16.4%
2017 8,198,156 6.7% 71,878 3.1% 56,132 11.8%
2018 8,506,658 3.8% 71,503 0.2% 52,681 6.1%
Domestic destinations by passenger traffic (2018)[15]
PositionCityPassengers
1Catania395,367
2Rome295,627
3Palermo285,648
4Brindisi177,379
5Bari167,098
6Lamezia Terme165,553
7Cagliari126,093
8Napoli105,199
9Alghero104,677
International destinations by passenger traffic (2018)
PositionCityPassengers
1 Barcelona, Spain340,319
2 Frankfurt, Germany302,331
3 Paris, France298,522
4 London, United Kingdom (Heathrow)293,385
5 Madrid, Spain285,343
6 Amsterdam, Netherlands226,935
7 London, United Kingdom (Stansted)221,658
8 Munich, Germany203,185
9 Bucharest, Romania188,553
10 Istanbul, Turkey183,785

Ground transportation

By monorail
Marconi Express monorail

The airport is about 5 kilometres (3 mi) from Bologna Centrale railway station. From 2020, the Marconi Express monorail connects the airport to Bologna Centrale railway station with a travel time of approximately 7.5 minutes.[16]

Soon after its inauguration, the service started suffering significant disruptions, culminating with its suspension between November 2021 and February 2022, with surreptitious substitution via normal buses, despite oblivious customers paying the full fare for a service they never received.[17][18] As of February 2022, the issues persists, and normal buses are still integrating the service.[19]

By car

Motorways:

By bus

A shuttle bus service, route Aerobus (BLQ), used to run between the station and the airport before the advent of Marconi Express. In case of events at the Bologna Fiere trade fair venue, BLQ operated a direct connection between the Airport and the bus terminus Fiera Viale Aldo Moro.[21] Route BLQ has been withdrawn as of 18 November 2020, with the introduction of the Marconi Express[22]

The only TPER bus connections available to and from the airport are routes 54, between the Airport and Borgo Panigale; and 944, between the Airport and the Maggiore Hospital, calling at Via della Birra, Via del Triumvirato, Pontelungo, and Santa Viola. Route 944 is extended to Bologna Centrale railway station in its last two departures at 00.15 and 00.45, while its first two departures from the railway station are at 5.20 and 5.30; due to the people mover being yet to begin service.[23]

From the nearby Via della Birra and Via del Triumvirato, it is possible to board suburban routes (also operated by TPER), 81, 81A, 91 and 91A to Longara,Padulle, Bagno di Piano and Calderara di Reno.

The airport has daily direct bus connections with Ferrara, Florence, Modena, Cervia, Ravenna, and Rimini, and three times a week with Ascoli Piceno.

By train

The nearest railway station is Calderara-Bargellino railway station, about 4 km from the airport. However, there is no public transport connection between the two. Passengers coming by rail are expected to change for the Monorail at Bologna Central Station.

See also

References
  1. "Statistiche" (PDF). assaeroporti.com.
  2. "Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)". Laenderdaten.info (in German). Retrieved 2 March 2022.
  3. Stefanato, Paolo (14 June 2005). "Eurofly lancia nuovi voli per New York e aspetta il 2006 per quotarsi in Borsa". Il Giornale (in Italian). Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  4. "INAUGURATO IL VOLO DI LINEA BOLOGNA-NEW YORK. Da oggi attivi tre collegamenti settimanali diretti". Bologna Airport (in Italian). 13 June 2005. Archived from the original on 3 June 2006. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  5. Testa, Alessandra (10 August 2019). "Addio Philadelphia, American Airlines ferma il volo dal 2020". Corriere di Bologna (in Italian). Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  6. "American Airlines launches six new connections from hubs". Anna.aero. 10 June 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  7. "American Airlines is Sending You on Your Way". American Airlines. 5 June 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  8. Gilbertson, Dawn (8 August 2019). "American Airlines adding first flights to Africa, Poland, returning to Tel Aviv". USA Today. Retrieved 22 January 2022.
  9. Terminal restyling and expansion Archived 28 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  10. "Telepass - Car Parks - Bologna Airport G. Marconi". Archived from the original on 29 July 2013. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  11. "Air Serbia to launch Trieste and Bologna flights".
  12. "Aperte le vendite dei voli Albastar per Lanpedusa". AlbaStar. 21 February 2022.
  13. "Four New Destinations for PLAY's Summer Schedule" (Press release). Play. 10 November 2021. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
  14. "Statistiche - Assaeroporti". assaeroporti.com.
  15. "2018 traffic statistics" (PDF). enac.gov.
  16. "Il tracciato". Archived from the original on 21 December 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2012.
  17. "Giostra People Mover, il comitato contrario: «Tutto previsto, si completi l'Sfm»".
  18. "People Mover, le ragioni del flop e la contesa tra Comune e Marconi Express".
  19. "People mover, ripartite due navette".
  20. "Driving directions to & from Bologna Airport G. Marconi". Archived from the original on 2 July 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  21. "Linea Aerobus: Aeroporto - Stazione Centrale".
  22. "Il giorno del People Mover: oggi la prima corsa Stazione-Aeroporto".
  23. https://www.tper.it/sites/tper.it/files/ORARI/tper_Bo944_5.pdf

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