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Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)

Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ, LIPE) serves Bologna, Italy. Flights leaving BLQ left an average of 14.3 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 38th least delayed of 88 busy European airports. 11.4 million passengers used it in the twelve months to May 2026, most often flying to or from Catania.

Delays at BLQ

Average departure delay per flight: 14.3 min over the twelve months to July 2026. Delays were worst in July (22.6 min) and lightest in March (7.9 min).

Average departure delay per flight from BLQ, all causes, by month. Green is the least delayed month, orange the most.
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MonthAverage departure delayDepartures
August 202518.9 min3,767
September 202516.4 min3,561
October 202513.8 min3,673
November 20259.8 min2,760
December 202513.1 min2,889
January 202616.0 min2,576
February 202610.1 min2,480
March 20267.9 min3,076
April 20269.8 min3,707
May 202611.1 min3,886
June 202618.6 min3,820
July 202622.6 min3,923

Air traffic flow restrictions held 0.6% of arrivals at BLQ for more than 15 minutes in the twelve months to August 2026, most often because of other causes (69% of those delay minutes).

Departure delay counts every cause, from the airline to air traffic control, and is measured against the scheduled time. Source: EUROCONTROL Aviation Intelligence Portal, summarised by TripStow. EUROCONTROL does not endorse TripStow.

Passengers at BLQ

11,371,922 passengers used BLQ in the twelve months to May 2026, on 77,391 commercial flights.

Passengers by month at BLQ, arrivals and departures together.
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MonthPassengersFlights
June 20251,077,5057,332
July 20251,110,4777,374
August 20251,117,6837,347
September 20251,030,3926,925
October 20251,046,1287,132
November 2025780,3515,341
December 2025787,6355,498
January 2026708,1654,921
February 2026685,1074,746
March 2026861,5455,931
April 20261,058,3197,226
May 20261,108,6157,618

Eurostat publishes airport figures a few months behind. Source: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0), summarised by TripStow.

Busiest routes from BLQ

  1. Catania-Fontanarossa (CTA)618,424 passengers
  2. Tirana (TIA)475,845 passengers
  3. Barcelona (BCN)462,133 passengers
  4. Palermo (PMO)338,234 passengers
  5. Istanbul (IST)326,193 passengers
  6. Madrid (MAD)292,483 passengers
  7. Paris (CDG)291,312 passengers
  8. London Heathrow (LHR)270,369 passengers
  9. Bucharest (OTP)269,255 passengers
  10. Frankfurt am Main (FRA)245,364 passengers

Passengers in 2024, both directions together. Source: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0), summarised by TripStow.

Questions and answers

How delayed are flights at Bologna (BLQ)?
Flights leaving BLQ left an average of 14.3 min late in the twelve months to July 2026, the 38th least delayed of 88 busy European airports.
Which month has the most delays at BLQ?
July 2026, when flights left an average of 22.6 minutes late; the lightest month was March 2026 (7.9 minutes).
Why are flights delayed at BLQ?
EUROCONTROL records why air traffic flow restrictions delay arrivals. At BLQ in the last year the biggest cause was other causes (69% of those minutes), then air traffic control (14%).

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