Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport

Bologna Airport Guglielmo Marconi Airport
IATA: BLQ – ICAO: LIPE BLQ Location of the airport in Italy
Summary
Airport type		Public
Location		Bologna
Elevation AMSL		123 ft / 37 m
Coordinates		44°32′07.60″N 11°17′19.20″E / 44.535444°N 11.288667°E / 44.535444; 11.288667Coordinates: 44°32′07.60″N 11°17′19.20″E / 44.535444°N 11.288667°E / 44.535444; 11.288667
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
12/30	9,186	2,800	Asphalt
Statistics (2010)
Passengers			5,511,669
Source: List of the busiest airports in Europe

Bologna Airport

Bologna Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Bologna) or Guglielmo Marconi Airport (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 5,511,669 passengers handled in 2010, the airport is now the 8th busiest in Italy.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Aer Lingus	Seasonal: Dublin
Aeroflot	Moscow-Sheremetyevo [begins 1 June 2012]
Air France	Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Air France operated by Régional	Lyon
Air Malta	Seasonal: Malta
Alitalia	Catania, Lamezia Terme, Naples, Palermo, Rome-Fiumicino
Alitalia operated by Air One	Alghero, Bari, Naples, Palermo
Austrian Airlines operated by Tyrolean Airways	Vienna
Belle Air	Pristina, Tirana
B&H Airlines	Mostar
Blue Air	Bacău
British Airways	London-Gatwick, London Heathrow [begins 29 April 2012]
Brussels Airlines	Brussels
Carpatair	Timişoara
Czech Airlines	Prague
EasyJet	London-Gatwick, Paris-Charles de Gaulle [begins 16 December]
Germanwings	Cologne/Bonn
Iberia operated by Air Nostrum	Barcelona, Madrid
Iceland Express	Seasonal: Reykjavík-Keflavík
Jet4you	Casablanca
KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper	Amsterdam
Lufthansa	Frankfurt, Berlin-Brandenburg [begins 3 June 2012]
Lufthansa Regional operated by Air Dolomiti and Lufthansa Cityline	Munich
Meridiana Fly	Cagliari, Catania, Fuerteventura, Malé, Mombasa, Moscow-Domodedovo, Olbia, Palermo, Tenerife-South, Zanzibar
Neos	Marsa Alam, Sharm el-Sheikh
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca
Ryanair	Alicante, Bari, Beauvais-Tillé, Brindisi, Brussels South-Charleroi, Dublin, Girona, Granada, Krakow, Lamezia Terme, Larnaca, London-Stansted, Madrid, Malaga, Malta, Marrakech, Palermo, Seville, Tenerife-South, Trapani, Valencia, Weeze, Zaragoza Seasonal: Bordeaux, Hahn, Ibiza, Kos, Porto, Rhodes, Wroclaw
Scandinavian Airlines	Copenhagen, Stockholm
Scandinavian Airlines operated by Cimber Sterling	Copenhagen
TAP Portugal	Lisbon, Zagreb
Turkish Airlines	Istanbul-Atatürk
Wind Jet	Catania

Charter services

Airlines	Destinations
Air Europe	Las Palmas
Blue Panorama Airlines	Hurghada, Marsa Alam, Sharm el-Sheikh
Meridiana Fly	Marsa Alam, Sharm el-Sheikh
Neos	Amman-Queen Alia, Cancún, Tenerife
Nesma Airlines	Cairo
Nouvelair	Djerba, Monastir
Tunisair	Djerba, Monastir
Ukraine International Airlines	Lviv

References

External links

• Bologna Airport (official site, in English)
• Bologna Airport Information
• Airport information for LIPE at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.