Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport

Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport Aeroporto di Bologna-Guglielmo Marconi
IATA: BLQ – ICAO: LIPE BLQ Location of the airport in Italy
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Aeroporto di Bologna S.p.A.
Serves	Bologna, Italy
Elevation AMSL	123 ft / 37 m
Coordinates	44°32′07.60″N 11°17′19.20″E / 44.5354444°N 11.2886667°ECoordinates: 44°32′07.60″N 11°17′19.20″E / 44.5354444°N 11.2886667°E
Website	bologna-airport.it
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 12/30 9,196 2,800 Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Passengers 6,889,742 Passenger change 14–15 +4.7% Aircraft movements 64,571 Movements change 14–15 -0.7%
Source: List of the busiest airports in Europe Statistics from Assaeroporti[1]

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 town center in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, about 200 km (120 mi) south-east of Milan. The airport is named after Bologna native Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian electrical engineer and Nobel laureate. With 6,889,742 passengers handled in 2015, it is now the 7th busiest in Italy.

Facilities

Terminal

For the period 2011–2013, the Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport planned the restyling and expansion of the Terminal. Bologna airport grew in size, from the previous total surface of 3,100 m² (33,000 sq ft) to the current total surface of 3,100 m² (33,000 sq ft). The number of gates increased from 20 to 24. Even the security checkpoints increased from 7 to 10 and 25 additional toilet facilities have been opened throughout the airport. Greater emphasis has been placed on commercial activities (there are now 35 shops instead of the previous 29), and in particular, in airside, after security checks, the "air" commercial areas have doubled (+136%), while in landside increased by 38%. Moreover, a new baggage handling system (BHS) has been installed in the new single check-in area on the ground floor (with 64 Check-in Counters). Now there are 5 piers with 2 air bridges for the direct transfer of passengers from the terminal to the aircraft. The restyling has been completed in the fall of 2013.^[2]

Facts and figures:

	Today
Total Surface (m^2)	36,100
Shopping Area (m^2)	5,500
Number of Gates	24
Number of Security Checkpoints	10
Number of Toilet facilities	145

Runway

Bologna airport has one runway (12/30; Length 2,800x45 m) made of bituminous conglomerate material, with 7.5-meter-wide side bands on both sides.

Runway^[3]

RWY	TORA	ASDA	TODA	LDA
12	2,800	2,920	2,800	2,493
30	2,800	2,860	2,800	2,438

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Aegean Airlines	Seasonal charter: Heraklion, Rhodes
Aer Lingus	Seasonal: Dublin (resumes 4 June 2016)[4]
Aeroflot	Moscow-Sheremetyevo
Air Arabia Maroc	Casablanca
Air Berlin	Düsseldorf[5]
Air Dolomiti	Munich[6]
Air France	Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Air Moldova	Chișinău
AlbaStar	Seasonal charter: Karpathos, Ibiza, Rhodes
Alitalia	Catania,[7] Rome-Fiumicino, Tirana Seasonal: Lamezia Terme (begins 1 August 2016),[8] Reggio Calabria (begins 1 August 2016)[9] Seasonal charter: Heraklion, Ibiza, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes
Alitalia operated by Alitalia CityLiner	Rome-Fiumicino
Arkia Israel Airlines	Seasonal: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion[10]
Austrian Airlines	Vienna
Blue Air	Bacău, Bucharest
Blu-express operated by Blue Panorama Airlines	Tirana Seasonal: Kos, Lampedusa, Mykonos, Rhodes (begins 25 June 2016),[11] Santorini, Skiathos, Zakynthos
British Airways	London-Heathrow
Brussels Airlines	Brussels
Czech Airlines	Prague
EasyJet	London-Gatwick
Emirates	Dubai-International[12]
Germanwings	Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn
HOP!	Lyon
Iberia operated by Air Nostrum	Madrid
Jetairfly	Marrakech Seasonal: Casablanca
KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper	Amsterdam
Lufthansa	Frankfurt
Meridiana	Cagliari, Olbia Seasonal: Santorini Seasonal charter: Marsa Alam
Mistral Air	Charter: Mostar, Lampedusa, Fuerteventura, Mersa Matruh
Neos	Boa Vista, Fuerteventura, Sal, Tenerife-South Seasonal: Ibiza, Kos, Menorca, Mykonos, Zanzibar, Djerba, Heraklion Seasonal charter: Cancùn, Dubai-World Central, Lampedusa, Marsa Alam, Mersa Matruh, Mombasa, Monastir
Nouvelair	Seasonal charter: Djerba, Monastir, Tabarka
Pegasus Airlines	Istanbul-Sabiha Gökçen
Primera Air	Seasonal charter: Aalborg, Reykjavík-Keflavík
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca
Ryanair	Alghero, Athens, Barcelona, Bari, Bucharest, Beauvais, Berlin-Schönefeld, Brindisi, Cagliari, Catania, Copenhagen, Charleroi, Edinburgh, Kraków, Lamezia Terme, Lanzarote, London-Stansted, Madrid, Malta, Palermo, Seville, Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki[13] Trapani, Valencia, Vigo[14] Warsaw-Modlin, Weeze, Wrocław Seasonal: Alicante, Bordeaux, Bristol, Chania, Dublin, Ibiza, Kos, Málaga, Manchester, Palma de Mallorca, Porto, Rhodes
Scandinavian Airlines	Copenhagen Seasonal: Stockholm-Arlanda
TAP Portugal	Lisbon
TAROM	Iași
Transavia	Eindhoven
Tunisair	Tunis Seasonal charter: Djerba
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul-Atatürk
Ukraine International Airlines	Lviv[15]
Vueling	Barcelona, Paris-Orly Seasonal: Menorca[16]
Wizz Air	Bucharest, Budapest, Chișinău,[17] Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, Iași (begins 2 July 2016), Katowice, Sofia, Timişoara

Statistics

Bologna Airport apron

Passenger numbers at Bologna-Borgo Panigale^[18]

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%	44,149.6	8.6%
2014	6,580,481	6.24%	65,058	−0.51%	41,789.34	−5.35%
2015	6,889,742	4.7%	64,571	−0.7%	40,998.5	−1.9%
2016 (January)	510,162	13.9%	4,893	8.8%	3,207.5	11.7%

Domestic destinations by passengers traffic (2013)^[19]

Position	City	Passengers
1	Catania	155.558
2	Palermo	117.836
3	Roma Fiumicino	105.763
4	Brindisi	77.571
5	Bari	74.666
6	Lamezia Terme	70.315
7	Cagliari	68.002
8	Trapani	66.850

European destinations by passengers traffic (2013)^[19]

Position	City	Passengers
1	Paris Charles de Gaulle	333.129
2	Frankfurt am Main	249.428
3	Madrid	235.783
4	London Heathrow	226.353
5	Munich	191.818
6	Amsterdam	171.557
7	Barcelona	163.519
8	Beauvais Tillé	140.251
9	London Stansted	120.523
10	Brussels Charleroi	107.691

Ground transportation

By car

Motorway:

• A1, (coming from Milan), Exit Bologna Borgo Panigale, take the by-pass.
• A13, (coming from Padova), Exit Bologna Arcoveggio, take the by-pass.
• A14, (coming from Ancona), Exit Bologna San Lazzaro, take the by-pass.

By-pass (Tangenziale): Exit No.4 bis.

The airport has 5,100 parking spaces, with different rates for short, or long stay. At the ground floor there are 10 car hire companies: Autovia; Avis; Budget Autonoleggio; Europcar; Goldcar Rental; Hertz; Locauto Rent; Maggiore; Sicily By Car – Autoeuropa e Sixt Rent a Car. Outside the terminal a taxi service is available.^[20]

By bus and train

The Airport is about 6 kilometres (4 mi) from Bologna Centrale railway station, one of the most important railway stations in Italy. When you arrive at the station, you can reach the Airport by Aerobus – BLQ shuttle service (Travel time: about 20 minutes),^[21] or by Taxi.

Once completed, the Marconi Express monorail will connect the airport to Bologna Centrale railway station in 7 minutes.^[22]

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

References

1. Associazione Italiana Gestori Aeroportuali
2. Terminal restyling and expansion
3. "Telepass - Car Parks - Bologna Airport G. Marconi".
4. "Aer Lingus".
5. "airberlin is off to a flying start: new destinations and more flights in Europe as of summer 2016". Air Berlin. Retrieved 15 December 2015.
6. "Air Dolomiti Adds Munich – Bologna Service from Dec 2014".
7. "HP Alitalia".
8. https://www.alitalia.com/it_it/
9. https://www.alitalia.com/it_it/
10. http://www.tnet.org.il/sitefiles/1/2444/90080.asp
11. http://airlineroute.net/2016/04/13/bv-greece-s16/
12. "Emirates to Commence Bologna Service from Nov 2015". Airlineroute.net. 27 May 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2015.
13. "Ryanair Resumes Bologna – Thessaloniki Route from April 2016".
14. https://www.ryanair.com/gb/en/
15. "Update as of 27NOV14: Ukraine International Airlines Adds New Routes in S15".
16. http://airlineroute.net/2015/09/21/vy-mah-s16/
17. "WizzAir Expands Chisinau Network from Oct 2015".
18. Traffic data
19. http://www.enac.gov.it/repository/ContentManagement/information/N853051579/Dati_di_traffico_2013.pdf
20. "Driving directions to & from Bologna Airport G. Marconi".
21. "Linea Aerobus: Aeroporto - Stazione Centrale".
22. "Il tracciato".

External links

Media related to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website
• Accident history for BLQ at Aviation Safety Network