Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport

Bologna
Guglielmo Marconi Airport

Aeroporto di Bologna-Guglielmo Marconi
IATA: BLQICAO: LIPE
Summary
Airport type Public
Operator Aeroporto di Bologna S.p.A.
Serves Bologna, Italy
Elevation AMSL 123 ft / 37 m
Coordinates 44°32′07.6″N 11°17′19.2″E / 44.535444°N 11.288667°E / 44.535444; 11.288667Coordinates: 44°32′07.6″N 11°17′19.2″E / 44.535444°N 11.288667°E / 44.535444; 11.288667
Website www.bologna-airport.it/it/?LN=IT
Map
BLQ

Location of the airport in Italy

Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
12/30 9,196 2,800 Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Passengers 6,889,742
Passenger change 14–15 Increase +4.7%
Aircraft movements 64,571
Movements change 14–15 Decrease -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 building
Main apron

Terminal

For the period 2011–2013, the Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport planned the restyling and expansion of the Terminal. The passenger terminal covers a total surface 36,100 m2, of which 5,500 m2 are shopping areas. It features 10 security checkpoints and 24 departure gates. Bologna airport grew in size, from the previous total surface of 3,100 m2 (33,000 sq ft) to the current total surface of 3,600 m2 (39,000 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]

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
122,8002,9202,8002,493
302,8002,8602,8002,438

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Aegean AirlinesSeasonal charter: Heraklion, Rhodes
Aer LingusSeasonal: Dublin
AeroflotMoscow-Sheremetyevo
Air Arabia MarocCasablanca
Air BerlinDüsseldorf
Air DolomitiMunich
Air FranceParis-Charles de Gaulle
Air MoldovaChișinău
AlbaStarSeasonal charter: Karpathos, Ibiza, Rhodes
AlitaliaCatania, Rome-Fiumicino
Seasonal: Lamezia Terme, Reggio Calabria
Seasonal charter: Heraklion, Ibiza, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes
Alitalia
operated by Alitalia CityLiner
Rome-Fiumicino
ArkiaSeasonal: Tel Aviv-Ben Gurion
Austrian AirlinesVienna
Blue AirBacău, Bucharest
Blu-express
operated by Blue Panorama Airlines
Tirana
Seasonal: Kos, Lampedusa, Mykonos, Rhodes, Santorini, Skiathos, Zakynthos
British AirwaysLondon-Heathrow
Brussels AirlinesBrussels
Czech AirlinesPrague
EasyJetLondon-Gatwick
EmiratesDubai-International
GermanwingsBerlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn
HOP!Lyon
Iberia
operated by Air Nostrum
Madrid
KLM
operated by KLM Cityhopper
Amsterdam
LufthansaFrankfurt
Meridiana Olbia
Seasonal: Santorini
Seasonal charter: Marsa Alam
Mistral Air Tirana (begins 14 December 2016)
Charter: Mostar, Lampedusa, Fuerteventura, Mersa Matruh
NeosBoa 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
NouvelairSeasonal charter: Djerba, Monastir, Tabarka
Pegasus AirlinesIstanbul-Sabiha Gökçen
Primera AirSeasonal charter: Aalborg, Reykjavík-Keflavík
Royal Air MarocCasablanca
RyanairAlghero, Athens, Barcelona, Bari, Bucharest, Beauvais, Berlin-Schönefeld, Brindisi, Cagliari, Catania, Copenhagen, Charleroi, Edinburgh, Eindhoven (begins 28 March 2017), Gran Canaria, Kraków, Lamezia Terme, Lanzarote, Lisbon (begins 28 March 2017), London-Stansted, Madrid, Malta, Palermo, Seville, Tenerife-South, Trapani, Valencia, Vigo, Warsaw-Modlin, Weeze, Wrocław
Seasonal: Alicante, Bordeaux, Bristol, Chania, Dublin, Ibiza, Kos, Málaga, Manchester, Palma de Mallorca, Porto, Rhodes, Thessaloniki
Scandinavian AirlinesCopenhagen
Seasonal: Stockholm-Arlanda
TAP PortugalLisbon
TAROMIași
TransaviaEindhoven
TUIfly BelgiumMarrakech
Seasonal: Casablanca
TunisairTunis
Seasonal charter: Djerba
Turkish AirlinesIstanbul-Atatürk
Ukraine International Airlines Lviv
VuelingBarcelona
Wizz AirBucharest, Budapest, Chișinău, Cluj-Napoca, Craiova, Iași, Katowice, Sofia, Suceava (begins 26 March 2017), Timişoara

Statistics

Passenger numbers at Bologna-Borgo Panigale[4]
Year Passengers Handled Change % Aircraft Movements Change % Cargo (tonnes) Change %
2000 3,524,789 Increase 6.1% 61,909 Increase 2.0% 25,034 Increase 2.3%
2001 3,440,051 Decrease −2.2% 56,746 Decrease −0.8% 26,197 Increase 4.7%
2002 3,414,475 Decrease −0.7% 54,956 Decrease −3.2% 24,959 Decrease −4.7%
2003 3,562,010 Increase 4.3% 56,738 Increase 3.2% 28,211 Increase 13.0%
2004 2,908,271 Decrease −18.4% 44,804 Decrease −21.0% 21,106 Decrease −25.2%
2005 3,690,953 Increase 26.9% 54,157 Increase 20.9% 25,469 Increase 20.7%
2006 4,001,436 Increase 8.4% 63,585 Increase 17.4% 32,465 Increase 27.5%
2007 4,361,951 Increase 9.0% 66,698 Increase 4.9% 18,700 Decrease −42.4%
2008 4,225,446 Decrease −3.1% 62,042 Decrease −7.0% 26,497 Increase 41.7%
2009 4,782,284 Increase 13.2% 64,925 Increase 4.7% 27,329 Increase 3.1%
2010 5,511,669 Increase 15.3% 70,269 Increase 8.2% 37,800 Increase 38.3%
2011 5,885,884 Increase 6.8% 69,153 Decrease −1.6% 43,788 Increase 15.8%
2012 5,958,648 Increase 1.2% 67,529 Decrease −2.4% 40,645 Decrease −7.2%
2013 6,193,783 Increase 4.0% 65,392 Decrease −3.2% 44,149.6 Increase 8.6%
2014 6,580,481 Increase 6.24% 65,058 Decrease −0.51% 41,789.34 Decrease −5.35%
2015 6,889,742 Increase 4.7% 64,571 Decrease −0.7% 40,998.5 Decrease −1.9%
2016
(January-October)
6.578.209 Increase 12.4% 56,925 Increase 8.5% 34,670.5 Increase 19.3%
Domestic destinations by passengers traffic (2013)[5]
PositionCityPassengers
1 Italy Catania 155.558
2 Italy Palermo 117.836
3 Italy Roma Fiumicino 105.763
4 Italy Brindisi 77.571
5 Italy Bari 74.666
6 Italy Lamezia Terme 70.315
7 Italy Cagliari 68.002
8 Italy Trapani 66.850
European destinations by passengers traffic (2013)[5]
PositionCityPassengers
1 France Paris Charles de Gaulle 333.129
2 Germany Frankfurt am Main 249.428
3 Spain Madrid 235.783
4 United Kingdom London Heathrow 226.353
5 Germany Munich 191.818
6 Netherlands Amsterdam 171.557
7 Spain Barcelona 163.519
8 France Beauvais Tillé 140.251
9 United Kingdom London Stansted 120.523
10 Belgium Brussels Charleroi 107.691

Ground transportation

By car

Motorway:

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.[6]

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),[7] or by Taxi.

Once completed, the Marconi Express monorail will connect the airport to Bologna Centrale railway station in 7 minutes.[8]

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

See also

References

External links

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