BLQ - Bologna Aviation NewsToday and Spotting

December closes negative -2,67%

2009-01-10T11:05:00.003+01:00

The international recessions continues and traffic figureas speaks that passengers handled in Bologna continue to go down. -2,67% in December. Freight is in opposite situation with a positive sign +39,7%. Mail is Ok with an enthusiastic +100%. -11,2% is the number of liners handled.
In December 2008 were 278.266 the passengers handled against 285.893 on the same month of 2007. Change is -2.67%.
Freight loaded on cargo liners or in the bulks of passenger flights sums to 2201 tons. Change is +39,7% compared with results matured in 2007 when they were 1576.
Mail is climbed to 178 tons against 89 of 2007. Change is +100%
4000 were the liner managed last month, compared with 4545 in 2007.
Figures are affected by the difficulties of these days. Positive is the relation that negative change had in passengers are lower than rate of decrease in the airliners landed. It means that load factors are so much higher than last year.
Subject to confirm due to figures in the hands lack of some datas. 2008 is closed with 4.222.403 passengers against 4.361.951 matured in 2007. Change is negative for 3,1-3,2% and more or less 138.000 is the difference.

Wizz moves to Forlì

2009-01-10T10:58:00.003+01:00

Recently landed in Bologna and now on the way to move to the closest gateway of Forlì 60 Kms far way from main keypoint town of Emilia Romagna.
They has replaced Centralwings on services to Poland and they launched flights in booking to Romania and than suspended by March 29 2009 due to interesting approaches gets from Forlì airport management again looking to new airlines proposing also interesting landing fees conditions.
Wizz continue to go from Bologna until March 27 2009 and than is predicted to go from Forlì by summer timetable 2009.
Official releases comes only from Forlì airport and not by the airline. But deal is reported defined and they'll operate Poznan, Warsaw, Cluj and Bucuresti due to Katowice and Bucuresti becomes in competition with Windjet flight already open or close to be add.

KLM City Hopper introduces EMB190s on Bologna-Amsterdam

2009-01-10T10:44:00.003+01:00

KLM City Hopper will introduces EMB190s on route Bologna-Amsterdam operated on behalf for KLM by September 29 2009.
The new Brazilian twin-jet is scheduled to go on flights KLM1591/1592 positioned in late afternoon.
KLM have three times a day link to Amsterdam and in summer are wholly flown by Fokker 100s.

Italynews - The aviation bulletin

2009-01-10T10:42:00.002+01:00

EASYJET will add a twice weekly seasonal flight Lyon-Olbia in the period Jul 13 2009 to Aug 28 2009 on monday and friday with A319s.

KLM CITY HOPPER will introduce EMB190s onbehalf for KLM on flight number KL1591/2 by Sept 28 2009. Its one of three daily flights ooperated on Bologna-Amsterdam.

MYAIR will drop by Jan 31 2009 on tu-th-sa the route Venice-Bari. Its part of the route today operated Venice-Bari- Athens that after Feb 1 2009 is scheduled only on Bari-Athens.
They'll give up by Jan 24 2009 the route Bergamo-Casablanca, on that day its the last revenue flight scheduled.
ADP-Aeroporti di Puglia is extremely unsatisfied of deal signed with MyAir. IN a recent article published on local media the top management of public holding that manages all gateways in Apulia have declared that soon they'll push the airline to respect agreements that plans to fly 18 routes and not the 11 today in the network. In case that MyAir will continue to be not in accordance with pacts signe they'll stop the cvontract and of course compensations promised for route development co-marketing.

MERIDIANA have give up these routes in this period: Florence-Berlin TXL/Budapest/ Prague.
By Jan 31 2009 will disappear the route Florence-Palermo when last flight is scheduled.
Rome FCO-Milan Lin have last flight scheduled on March 27 2009, Paris CDG-Milan LIN is off by March 28 2009. Naples-Paris CDG is out by May 31 2009.

WIZZ will not commence on March 2 2009 the route Bologna-Bucuresti planned three times a week on tu-th-sa. The airline is on the way probably to upload new flights from Forlì soon with start up by March 29 2008.

Blue Air becomes twice. New route to Bacau

2009-01-10T10:31:00.002+01:00

Surprisingly with a new liner based in Bacau it will open the new route Bologna-Bacau twice weekly on mondays and thursdays by March 30 2009.
This is the schedule proposed and now already available for bookings on airline website at www.blueair-web.com
Bologna-Bacau
17.20-20.50 JOR218 mo
19.00-22.30 JOR218 th
Bacau-Bologna
14.50-16.20 JOR217 mo
16.40-18.10 JOR217 th
Flights are operated with Boeing B737s flight equipment.
One way starts by 10€ without taxes. Round trip taxes enclosed costs 90€.
Blue Air continues its expansion in Bologna thanks to the good appeal matured in the market and strong relationship with them. They have an office in town where passengers without credit cards can book and buy ticket using cash payment.
Bologna in summer 2009 will have 5 destination listed in Romania. Two are new: Bacau with Blue Air and Costanta with Ryanair.

Italynews - The aviation bulletin

2009-01-10T10:26:00.000+01:00

AIRONE have received from Airbus Industries three more A320/216, with regs EI-DSY (msn 3666), EI-DSZ (msn 3695). They were delivered on Jan 5 2009 with a delivery flight Toulouse-Rome FCO.
EI-DTA (msn 3732) was delivered on Jan 6 2009.

ALITALIA MD11SFs EI-UPE is delayed until this afternoon due to different reasons. Its scheduled as AZA8924 on routing Rome FCO-KJFK-Dothan, Alabama.

ALITALIA-CAI is close the partnership with Air France. 25% of the asset will go in the hands of Air France/KLM for 300 million €.
Rumors reports new flights on Catania-Florence/ Naples.
First day of operations planned on Jan 13 2009 will commence at 6am for Alitalia liners where technical parperwork must be done inn the passage between old and new venture network operations. In the night between 12 and 13, freight flights are granted by Airone liners not affected in this procedure of paperwork company change.

BLUE AIR with a new liner based in Bacau it will open the new route Bologna-Bacau twice weekly on mondays and thursdays by March 30 2009.
Bologna-Bacau

17.20-20.50 JOR218 mo

19.00-22.30 JOR218 th
Bacau-Bologna

14.50-16.20 JOR217 mo
16.40-18.10 JOR217 th

They resumes two times a week Bacau-Bergamo, 2xweek on wednesdays and sundays.
Flights are right now on booking engines with 10€ one way spwecial promo fare available, without taxes.

In the last days it has used VIa A320s on Bologna-Bucaresti in order to cope the highest post Christmas demand.

MYAIR CRJ900s EI-DUM is again on tarmac at Madrid after small damage get some days ago.

RYANAIR have scheduled two special flights on Apr 1 and 2 2009 on Dublin-Bari selling tickets for supporting the soccer game Italy-Ireland. These flights are on airline booking engine.

TNT on Jan 7 have used an A300Fs on Bologna-Liege night small parcel flight.

Hamburg Airlines and OnAir partners on Bologna-Berlin

2009-01-08T10:44:00.002+01:00

Seasonal twice weekly the Bologna-Berlin SXF will open games by July 10 to September 14, 2009. Monday and friday are the days of operations with Airbus A319s. One ways or round trip are in sale by 59€ plus taxes on Hamburg Airlines and OnAir (www.flyonair.it) web sites.
Timetable:
Bologna-Berlino Schoenefeld
4R2177 13.00-14.35 lunedì A319
4R2147 13.25-15.00 venerdì A319
Berlino Schoenefeld-Bologna
4R2176 10.40-12.15 lunedì A319
4R2146 11.05-12.40 venerdì A319

Italynews - The aviation bulletin

2009-01-08T10:43:00.002+01:00

ALITALIA further three MD82s will leave tomoprrow Italy to Malta on the way south to South Africa. They are I-DAWO/G/Q.

ALITALIA CARGO, tomorrow MD11SFs EI-UPE will be ferried back in US with flight number AZA8924 from Rome FCO to Dothan, Alabama via New York JFK.

BLUE PANORAMA, B767/300ER EI-CZH is now in service since last weekend.

They had a technical fault on a B737/300s who have caused 18 hours of delay. They have replaced it with a back up airliner leased in ACMI from another carrier. Route planned was a Roma FCO-Marsa Alam-Rome FCO. Passengers were assisted with meals and night paid by the airline.

DELTA AIR LINES continue to reduce and drop weekly frequencies on Pisa-New York JFK. Suspended by next coming week until the first days of February 2009, with at least 3 weeks of flights wholly dropped. With effect Feb 8 to March 9 2009 the route is operated 3xweek and non as scheduled until some days ago with 4xweek.
Low bookings affects this route in winter and especially when traffic is lowest for leisure demand.

EASYJET will open 4xweek Liverpool-Naples by summer 2009 on mo-we-fr-su.

EUROFLY passengers stranded in Mombasa and Zanzibar after that fault is occured to an A330s were lifted back thanks to an Air Italy B757/200s.

JADE CARGO is now suffering company rebuilding and network is affected from the new asset on the way to be designed by Lufthansa Cargo. Some gateway in Italy can disappear. Brescia is one probably in the list where until now the load factor was not ever excellent.

MEA will offer in summer 2009 four weekly flights to Milan Mxp and Rome FCo with separate schedules:
Milan MXP-Beyrut is 4xweek on mo-we-fr-su
Rome FCO-Beyrut is 4xweek on tu-th-sa-su
Flight equipment is A320s on all the routes.

MYAIR is currently leasing in ACMI different airliners from a Mistral Air B737/300s, Itali Airlines MD82s and JeTran Air MD82s to cope network necessities.

NORWEGIAN by Apr 2 2009 will open Rome FCO-Stockholm 4xweek on mo-we-fr-su with B737/800s.

WINDJET is now dropped the route Forlì-Olbia. This route announced when new hub in Forlì was released by the press conference is disappeared from many days on the airline booking engine.
Route Forlì-Barcellona and scheduled twice a week by March 29 2009 is now planned to go by June 20. Its almost three months of stop where flights loaded in the past on booking engine now are disappeared.

WIZZ will add the route Treviso-Sofia by March 30 2009 on tu-th-sa. Its operated with a 180 seater A320s and it copes the hole left on the route by MyAir disappeared recently on Venice-Sofia.

Italynews - The aviation bulletin

2009-01-08T10:38:00.000+01:00

AIR ITALY, new summer flights are scheduled and available for sale on booking engines right now.
They are planned from Verona and Olbia to selected domestic destinations:
Olbia to Bari/Catania/Naples/Verona/Turin( from 4xweek to daily in the peak) from Jun 26 2009.
Verona to Lamezia Terme/Reggio Calabria (3xweek)/Brindisi and Olbia-Palermo by July 24 2009.
Schedules and day of operations are variable with rush peak on summer

AIRONE now is CAI. Take over was signed on Dec 31 2008.

BLU EXPRESS have Lamezia Terme in evaluation for new flights to Rome FCO. Venice is also another market where slots request was presented.
They has uploaded a new twice weekly seasonal flight Rome FCO-Ibiza on fridays and sundays in the period June-September 2009. Tickets starts from 69€ one way.

BRITISH AIRWAYS, rumors reports they will operate a seasonal London LCY-Pisa with a variable schedule from 2xweek to 4xweek. There are no confirms due to flights are not actually scheduled on CRSs, rumors appears that comes from Pisa Airport that has also announced this new flight in arecent article appeared on medias.

CIMBER STERLING is the name applied to the new division that will operate low cost operations on routes previously operated by Sterling and went out of business at end of October 2008. Two B737/700s are the flight equipment recently contracted from former fleet in use by old Sterling.

EUROFLY have problems with an A330/200 in AOG at Mombasa and an Air Italy B767/200s is leased from Air Italy in order to cope the schedule.

MYAIR use one or two ACMI MD82s from Itali Airlines on selected days of the week for granting the network.

VOLAREWEB on Jan 12 2009 will fly the last revenue operated flight on Brindis-Milan scheduled on late afternoon.

Aer Lingus/Ryanair on Bologna-Dublin by summer 2009

2008-10-05T20:30:00.002+02:00

Aer Lingus and Ryanair will operate in clash on Bologna-Dublin by summer season 2009.
Uploading the new summer services, Aer Lingus confirms three times a week the seasonal Bologna-Dublin. Ryanair will begin to fly on the leg by Oct 27 twice a week and in summer they'll increase until 4xweek.
Aer Lingus (Ryanair owns 31% of shares) will work on tuesday, thursday and saturday. Ryanair will fly in the remaining days.

MyAir have closed Brindisi and Catania

2008-10-05T20:20:00.002+02:00

MyAir continues to give up services from Bologna. They has recently cutted two domestic routes to Southern Italy: Brindisi (by Sept 26) and Catania (Sept 30).
Operated three times a week flights to Brindisi were commened in June 2005. Catania is a route resumed in last March and operated daily. The decison to drop these services is connected to a network reduction and not by the load factor again positive until now.

Neos owns Cancun service in winter

2008-10-05T20:17:00.002+02:00

Neos will have in the hands the weekly service to Cancun operated on behalf for Alpitour and Francorosso.
Its a weekly service operated on thursdays with B767/300ERs.
Bologna-Cancun 12.00-19.00 via Roma thursday
Cancun-Bologna 20.40-15.30+1 non stop

SAB ends with Forlì airport

2008-10-05T20:05:00.002+02:00

The divorce now is consumed. SAB - Bologna airport managing company have left stake participation in SEAF - Forlì airport company. After eyars where SEAF have lose a lot of money with financial year closed with huge highest losses. SAB have not participate into the support for cover losses matured in FY 2007 for more than 3,7 million €.
The local scene is full of attacks especially coming from Forlì local authorites against Bologna for its refuse to cover losses due to they has owned a 17% batch of shares in the company.
On last friday after that deadline is expired Franco Rusticali Head of SEAF have affirmed the intention to order to a lawyer office about if there are ways to proceede against SAB.
SAB in a press release affirmed to be happy to say that and hopefully they want that a court will clear the situation.

AirOne to Naples is now three times a day

2008-10-05T20:02:00.001+02:00

By Oct 2008, regular flights to Naples are back to three times a day.
They have resumed the evening rotation operated with 90 seater CRJ900s.
Naples-Bologna 19.00-20.05
Bologna-Naples 20.40-21.50

AirOne publish winter timetable

2008-10-05T19:55:00.003+02:00

No updates or new additions in AirOne winter timetable effective by Oct 26 2008.
They has published the timetable despite AirOne will merge into CAI-Compagnia Aerea Italiana when process to obtain AOC is terminated.
AirOne will offer direct services to:
Alghero, daily with 90 seater CRJ900s,
Bari, daily with 90 seater CRJ900s,
Lamezia Terme, daily with 159 seater A320s,
Naples, 19 flight a week with 90 seater CRJ900s.
Services to Athens are via Naples and available from Bologna to Athens on monday, wednesday, friday only. Northward from Athens to Bologna are available on monday, wednesday, friday and sunday.

Two more routes for Wizzair

2008-10-05T19:48:00.002+02:00

Wizzair have look very well to the market with origin from this Northern East gateway with catchment area that overlook Tuscany and Marche. They'll add in 2009 two more routes servicing Bucuresti Baneasa and Cluj Napoca.
March 3 2009:
tuesday/thursday/saturday
Bologna-Bucarest Baneasa 08:10 - 11:05 W6 738 A320
Bucarest Baneasa-Bologna 06:10 - 07:25 W6 737 A320
May 2 2009:
Bologna-Cluj Napoca 08:05 - 10:45 W6 798 A320
Cluj Napoca-Bologna 06:20 - 07:20 W6 797 A320
180 seaterAirbus A320s will fly the routes.
From a long time ago was rumored the landing of Wizzair in that part of Italy.
Centralwings game over have expedite this process and they as first have took place on Katowice (Krakow area) and Warsaw. Now they'll have open Bucuresti and Cluj.

Alitalia drops flight at 9am to Rome

2008-10-05T19:44:00.002+02:00

On the way of current company policy to reduce and cut services, reduce frequencies or change flight equipments. Alitalia with effect Oct 6 2008 it will drops the daily service to Rome scheduled at 9am from monday to saturdays and operated by EMB170s.
They continue to fly Rome with four daily flights operated by Boeing MD82s.

Blue Panorama resumes flights to Cayo Largo

2008-09-18T20:07:00.012+02:00

Blue Panorama will resume charter services by Dec 23 2008 from Bologna to Cayo Largo.
Its a weekly flight with intermedisate stop in Havana. This charter chain begins before Christmas and is available until late spring 2009.
This pearl in the Caribbean was previously served two years ago and not restarted last year.
274 seater B767/300ERs is on the route to lift holidayers every tuSchedule is:
Tuesdays 23DEC08-28APR09
Bologna-Havana 10:50-17:15
Havana-Cayo Largo 18:50-19:30
Cayo Largo-Bologna 20:30-13:15
esdays.

OnAir Bologna-L'viv flight is now annual

2008-09-18T20:07:00.011+02:00

Thanks to success matured in these three months of operations, OnAir that manages charter route Bologna-L'viv have decided to operate in on all year round basis.
Flight commenced on June 16 and planned to stop on Sept 22 are now scheduled until end of March 2009.
With effect Oct 6 2008 flights are every two weeks, and weekly on Christmas holidays peak times. Ukraine International is the chartered carrier and it use 164 seater B737/400s, yet every mondays.
These are the days of operations:
Year 2008

Oct 6 and 20, Nov 3 and 17, Dec 1-15-22-29.

Year 2009

Jan 5-12-19, Feb 2 and 16, Mar 2 and 16.

Timetable with effect Oct 6 2008:

Bologna-L'viv 13:25-16:45

L'viv-Bologna 11:30-12:35

OnAir is a tour operator that manages flights from Pescara and Bologna to the East Europe. Company website is at www.flyonair.com

August 2008:passengers +1%, cargo +53,2%

2008-09-18T20:07:00.008+02:00

August 2008 was positive at Bologna airport. Considering the general worldwide situation and checking our figures we get +1% increase in passengers traffic and can be accepted such as positive. We have seen 473844 passengers in transit against 469396 of same month in 2007, 4448 is the difference.
Freight is growing again with 1339 tons handled in August 2008 comparing with 874 of 2007, +53,2% change.
Traffic numbers are negative, -5,36% change. 5421 planes landed this year and 5728 in 2007.
Mail is huge positive with 82 tons handled againt 24 of 2007, +241,7% change.
If passenger market have suffered the disappear of Alpi Eagles and reductions made by AirOne, Alitalia and MyAir.
Freight id positive due to the recent agreements had with DHL and expansion of TNT and the new entry FEMAR (in the past in operations from Brescia). The positive figures matured by cargo traffic is the best surprise found in 2008.

Charter flights list

2008-09-18T20:07:00.005+02:00

Today one charter only is listed and it is going to the hit top European religious destination:
LOURDES 8I4900 10.30

34 flights off today

2008-09-17T20:00:00.005+02:00

Strike from handling workers and some airlines in other airports forced to stop 34 flight in arrival and departures from Bologna mainly between 10 and 18.
Three flights was been operated from nearest gateways: AirOne have operated two flights from Forlì and one by Germanwings from Verona.

Iceland Express non stop to Keflavik

2008-09-17T20:00:00.003+02:00

Weekly by June 1 2009 every mondays is the new flight Bologna-Keflavik. Iceland Express today have started bookings on its web site where a round trip cost 318€.
Astraeus with B757/200s is the carrier that grants flight operations on behalf for the Icelandic low fare carrier.
Timetable:
Bologna-Keflavik 23.30-01.55 AEU252 monday
Keflavik-Bologna 16.15-22.40 AEU251 monday
www.icelandexpress.com is the web site.

Charter flights list

2008-09-17T20:00:00.000+02:00

One charter flight only today to the holiday destinations:
ZANZIBAR BV3224 01:05

Go new Bologna Airport FBOs

2008-09-16T23:51:00.011+02:00

Simple in shaping, futuristic and with finest details cared at the top. That's TAG, the new FBOs with terminal for general and business aviation. Today it was presented to the local authorithies, entrapreneurs and press. Its not replace nothing, ver existed before and market needed at asked it. From some months (1st day was on April 21 2008) Bologna have something of appealing in Italy and especially in this market.

Its a 1100sqm two storey terminal, a 2400sqm FBO facility and an apron that house 5 Gulfstream V jets and a fuel farm.

Inside the passengers station various services are available to the clientele: fast track access to the planes with on-site security channel, meeting room, crew briefing room and single room for day use.

The hangar facility was shaped for FBO use and line maintenance. It can house 6 small biz planes or 2 Gulfstream GV parallel parked. Partially one B737s, or A319s. Tail must stay outside.

Since opening over 2300 movements was been handled. Bologna annually serves 5500 planes, the target of TAG managers is 8000.

In this FBOs works two ground handling operators: Sirio Private Aviation and Aloa that supply all services that customers need.

TAG is a company where 51% is in the hands of SAB and two private investors (Sirio and B.Group) have the minority part (24,5% each).

Target for TAG is to be a key point in the territory in that market, in incoming and outgoing. And why not, an excellent visiting card for whom lands in Bologna for its first time.

Great the availability of planes in static demonstration: the newest Falcon 7Xs, one Canadair Challenger 605 demonstrator, a Sirio Falcon 2000s and several helos A109 Power Elite (The Ferrari Motor Co.). Photos Marco Finelli with copyright.

Meridiana reduces Bologna-Catania

2008-09-16T22:20:00.005+02:00

The winter season 2008/9 by Meridiana is probably seen negative and they'll reduces from 19xweek to 15xweek on segment Bologna-Catania. Its three times a day only on friday and they delete the rotation positioned in the middle of day. Its a decision made thanks to the oil raising price and the uncertairn economic situation. Many other routes in Meridiana network will suffers the same intention to reduce schedules for temptimg to improve average yield revenue. Photo Marco Finelli with copyright.

Charter flights list

2008-09-16T22:04:00.002+02:00

Today are listed 2 charter flights to the holiday destinations
BERGAMO-RHODES A3 4501 11.15
ROME-CHANIA NO2724 15:40

Blue Air B737/800 1st time here

2008-09-16T21:59:00.003+02:00

This morning Blue Air B737/800s YR-BIA kissed Bologna's runway for his first time.
They modified the rotation with a new one Bucarest BBU-Bologna-Bergamo-Bucarest BBU and we get this highlight. Photo Lucio Alfieri with copyright.

Heading to The Maldives for Air Italy

2008-09-15T20:15:00.005+02:00

The Maldives is one of top leading destination preferred by Italians and especially from peoples who lives in Emilia Romagna and North Eastern Italy. Air Italy will open its first long haul flight from Bologna and choose that idylliac archipelago while destination. Weekly charter from Christmas until to the later spring, its a Milan Malpensa-Bologna-Male thanks to a 255 seater Boeing B767/200ERs (12 in Privilege Class and 243 in Economy Class). Carrier marketing manager Aurora Bignardi some days ago have announced to the press that highlight. Photo by Marco Finelli with copyright.

Charter flights list

2008-09-15T20:13:00.000+02:00

14 Charter flights are scheduled today on Sept 15

RHODES BV120 08:05
BERGAMO BJ6253 09:25
LWOW PS3076 09:55
MILANO MXP-DJERBA BJ6389 10:10
SKIATHOS TE4533 11:40
CAIRO NO1630 13:25
MILANO MXP-TENERIFE LTE651 13:45
MILANO MXP-MONASTIR BJ6261 14:50
MONASTIR BJ6555 15:05
DJERBA TU8005 16:05
HERAKLION BIE3759 16:55
TENERIFE NO1460 17:10
DJERBA KAJ1237 21:20
LUXOR MHS481 24:00

Rail stop with vista now opening at Bologna airport

2008-09-14T11:53:00.009+02:00

By Sept 15 2008 Ferrovie Italiane - Italian Railways opens a new railway station at Calderara-Bargellino just so close from Bologna Airport runway 12 end. From her platforms landing can be seen due to its exactly nearest to the landing pattern and approaching lights. Leaving the station walking to the left at 400 meters spot point on taxiway to runway 12 is there.
Trains leaves from Bologna main railway station with direction Poggio Rusco-Verona and journey time is about 8 minutes. Several trains stops there and more with new timetable with effect Dec 14 2008.

Neos will fly Zanzibar

2008-09-14T11:42:00.005+02:00

NEOS will fly with B767/300ERs one weekly charter rotation on Bologna-Zanzibar-Mombasa-Rome FCO-Bologna every Tuesdays from Dec 23 2008 to March 17 2009.
Alpitour and Francorosso are the leisure organizationa that manage these flights.
Schedule reported by the tour operator:
Bologna-Zanzibar 23:50-10:00
Zanzibar-Mombasa-Rome-Bologna 11:10-22:25
Two years ago Neos have operated weekly in winter leisure season 2006/7 a weekly rotation from Milan Mxp to Mombasa via Bologna. Photo by Marco Finelli with copyright.

Some delays at BLQ

2008-09-14T11:27:00.004+02:00

Delays affect some flights today:
Blue Panorama flight BV722 to Marsa Alam scheduled at 7:00 is planned to leave at 13:00 due to late incoming flight BV863 from Kos scheduled at 11:05 instead of 00:35
Eurofly flight GJ7817 to Sharm el Sheikh have amassed about 12 hours of delay, its scheduled to go Sharm el Sheikh at 9:00 and not at 21:40 of yesterday. Photo by Marco Finelli with copyright.

Charter flights list

2008-09-14T11:25:00.000+02:00

26 Charter flights are scheduled today on Sept 14
RHODES DBK244 05:35
SHARM EL SHEIKH NO7664 06:40
SHARM EL SHEIKH BV738 06:45
SHARM EL SHEIKH BV714 07:05
MARSA ALAM BV722 07:35
VENEZIA-IBIZA JKK4743 08:55
MENORCA JKK4748 09:00
DJERBA TU8029 09:40
MILANO MXP-HERAKLION A34521 10:15
MILANO MXP-HURGHADA KBR7234 10:50
MALAGA JKK4714 11:25
PALMA AP8602 12:10
PALMA JKK4746 13:45
RHODES LM497 14:10
MONASTIR BV770 14:25
IBIZA JKK4752 16:30
MENORCA BV852 17:05
HURGHADA BV716 17:25
VERONA JKK4547 18:00
IBIZA IWD9764 18:10
MENORCA JKK4711 18:15
IBIZA DO9424 18:25
MENORCA DBK248 19:30
HERAKLION BV732 20:00
MILANO MXP-HURGHADA MHS461 20:15
IBIZA AP8432 21:35

MyAir fly today to Las Palmas

2008-09-13T16:40:00.006+02:00

MyAir flight number MYW/8I 4920 today operates a charter flight to Las Palmas. 180 seater A320/200s operates the flight. Photo by Marco Finelli with copyright.

Charter flights list

2008-09-13T16:39:00.001+02:00

17 charter flights are scheduled today Sept 13 2008
KOS NO6746 05:50
MARSA ALAM BV616 07.05
SHARM EL SHEIKH BV618 07:40
MARSA ALAM BV646 08:00
RIMINI-IBIZA JK4565 09:05
RHODES EEZ1390 10:40
RHODES VIK568 11:15
VERONA-TUNIS TU8054 11:35
KOS LM437 13:10
HERAKLION AP8292 13:45
LAMPEDUSA 8I6932 14:25
LAS PALMAS 8I4920 15:30
TABARKA KAJ6281 15:40
MARSA ALAM NO6652 17:10
MARSA ALAM BV640 17:40
HERAKLION A34519 19:00
SHARM EL SHEIKH EEZ1894 19:10
SHARM EL SHEIKH EEZ7817 21:40

Centralwings last flights to Poland

2008-09-13T16:33:00.002+02:00

Today Centralwings operates last flights to Poland from Bologna. They give up legs Bologna-Krakow (commenced in 2006) and Bologna-Warsaw (began in 2005). Poor financial performances registered until now forced the airline to cease flight in coming October 2008 and demising routes from Sept 1. Centralwings continues to go ahead with leisure charter flights only.
Wizzair will begins to fly twice weekly Warsaw and Krakow to Bologna helping stranded passengers by next Oct 27 2008.

Neos opens leisure route to Aqaba

2008-09-13T16:30:00.001+02:00

NEOS will add a new winter destination ever served until now. Its Aqaba in Jordan. Weekly on Saturdays from Feb 14 to April 25 2009 with 184 seater B737/800 with blended winglets.

Proposed schedule is:

BOLOGNA-AQABA 07:00-11:55

AQABA-SHARM EL SHEIKH 12:45-13:35

SHARM EL SHEIKH-BOLOGNA 14:25-17:45

This flight is operated on behalf for Alpitour/Francorosso travel organitizations. Photo by Marco Finelli with copyright.

Punj Lloyd corporate jet visits Bologna

2008-09-13T16:23:00.002+02:00

Last thurdsay Punj Lloyd Gulfstream IV VT-PLM is landed to Bologna.

Charters to Gothemburg

2008-09-13T16:17:00.002+02:00

This week Volvo Italia contracted some charters with OpenSky Service for flying Gothemburg car company dealers from Bologna for a short incentive break in the Swedish town.
On last tuesday Europe Air Post have operated a Bologna-Gothemburg Landvetter with B737/300QCs. They comes back on wednesdays evening from Landvetter at 10.05pm with Neos B737/800s.
On thursday morning second batch of dealers were lifted by another Eurpe AirPost B737/300QCs. Yesterday evening FlyHello MD90-30s is come back with them from Gothemburg Saeve an it is landed at 9.10pm.

9/9/2008 Charter flights list

2008-09-09T11:15:00.001+02:00

Charter flights scheduled on Sept 9
IZMIR PGT962 03:15
THIRA NO2744 07:00
SHARM EL SHEIKH EEZ1936 08:25
GOTHENBURG FPO1374 11:55
RHODES A34501 14:15
ROMA-CHANIA NO2724 15.40
SHARM EL SHEIKH GJ1806 23:15

MyAir today last flight to Bordeaux

2008-09-09T11:13:00.000+02:00

MYAIR today operates its last rotation to Bordeaux. Thrice weekly scheduled this flight commenced last year and during the last months operated with a 50 seater Darwin Airline Saab2000

Europe AirPost today charter to Gothemburg for Volvo Italia

2008-09-09T11:03:00.002+02:00

This morning at 11:55 Europe AirPost flight number FPO1374 have destination Gothemburg Landvetter operated with B737/300s. The liner is arrived empty from Berlin SXF and flight was contracted from OpenSky Service (www.opensky-service.it) on behalf for Volvo Italy.

9/8/2008 Leisure charter list

2008-09-08T09:43:00.003+02:00

This is the today leisure charter flight list scheduled in departure on Sept 8:
MIKONOS NO1742 08:00
LAS PALMAS BV124 08:00
RHODES BV120 08:05
ANTALYA CAI164 08:50
LWOW PS3076 09:55
TORINO-DJERBA KAJ1244 10:30
MONASTIR TU4545 10:35
ROMA-LA ROMANA BV1104 10:40
MILANO MXP BJ6389 10:40
HERAKLION BIE3043 11:30
SKIATHOS TE4533 11:40
HERAKLION BIE3758 13:40
MILANO-TENERIFE MXP LTE651 13:45
ISTANBUL NO1470 14:15
MONASTIR BJ6555 15:05
CAIRO TAS7020 16.00
DJERBA TU8005 17.10
TENERIFE BV130 20.30
DJERBA KAJ1237 21.20
MONASTIR TU6751 22.35
DJERBA BJ6261 23.55
LUXOR MHS481 23.59

Livingston A330s back to Bologna

2008-09-08T09:41:00.003+02:00

Italian charter airline Livingston was back yesterday to Bologna with flight number LM2716 operated with an heavy. 298 seater A330/200s have operated this flight with destination Menorca, Spain.

Formula One Team Ferrari back from Liege

2008-09-08T09:38:00.002+02:00

Formula One Team Ferrari yesterday was lifted back from Liege with Eurofly.
Flight number 1901 is landed at around midnight with a 180 seater A320s.
Yesterday Ferrari driver Felipe Massa won the Grand Prix of Belgium.
It was an happy back flight to home for everybody worked in the Team.

Futura suspend operations

2008-09-08T09:30:00.003+02:00

Spanish leisure charter airline Futura today have suspended operations and flight number FUA5266 scheduled from Bologna to Tenerife South at 1.55pm is cancelled.
Leisure operators who has contracted the weekly charter rotation have rebooked travellers with another airline.
Passengers today will fly Blue Panorama BV130 scheduled to go to Canary Island destination at 8.30pm.

Germanwings confirms Bologna in summer 2009

2008-09-08T09:21:00.002+02:00

Budget German airline Germanwings by last Sept 4 at 6pm have opened booking for coming summer season 2009.
The route Bologna-Cologne is confirmed daily and timetable is:
Bologna-Cologne 4U839 16.40-18.15 Daily ex SA
Bologna-Cologne 4U839 16.50-18.25 SA
Cologne-Bologna 4U838 14.35-16.05 Daily ex SA
Cologne-Bologna 4u838 14.45-16.15 SA
156 seater A319/100s are used on the route.
for bookings and informations.

9/7/2008 Leisure charter list

2008-09-07T14:02:00.002+02:00

This is the today leisure charter flight list scheduled in departure on Sept 7
SHARM EL SHEIKH NO7664 06:40
SHARM EL SHEIKH BV738 06:45
SHARM EL SHEIKH BV714 07:05
MARSA ALAM BV722 07:35
VENEZIA-IBIZA JKK4743 08:50
MENORCA JKK4748 09:00
DJERBA TU8029 09:40
RHODES DBK244 09:45
MILANO MXP-HURGHADA KBR7234 10:50
IBIZA FUA5208 11:10
MALAGA JKK4714 11:25
HERAKLION A34521 11:45
MENORCA MDJ8112 11:55
PALMA AP8602 12:10
PALMA JKK4746 13:45
VERONA FUA5220 13:45
RHODES LM497 14:10
MONASTIR BV770 14:15
IBIZA IWD4810 15:35
FUERTEVENTURA NO7472 16:15
IBIZA FUA5255 16:25
IBIZA JKK4752 16:30
IBIZA BV772 17:05
MENORCA LM2712 17:45
MENORCA DBK246 18:00
HURGHADA BV716 18:05
MENORCA JKK4720 18:10
MALAGA JKK4548 19:45
PALMA IWD4804 21:10
IBIZA AP8432 21:35
SHARM EL SHEIKH DO9402 21:55
HERAKLION BV732 22:10
HURGHADA MHS461 22:15
Source is 24/7 real time flight informations at: http://www.bologna-airport.it/template/listOrarioVoliRealtime.asp?IDFolder=280&LN=IT

FlyHello from Djerba

2008-09-07T13:59:00.001+02:00

Today FlyHello flight number FHE686 have operated a charter flight from Djerba, Tunisia with MD90-30.

Flight diversions from Florence

2008-09-07T13:50:00.003+02:00

Yesterday Sept 6 2008 some flights were diverted from Florence Airport (FLR/LIRQ) to Bologna due to strong crosswinds that usually limits the regular operations.
AIR FRANCE regular flight from Paris (AFR5042) operated by Avro RJ85s. The liner operating back flight AFR5043 have left Bologna after 7pm (3hrs late than usually scheduled) with huge large delay due to forced to wait passengers in incoming from Florence and lifted here by bus.
BRUSSELS AIRLINES, the regular flight from Brussels operated with Avro RJ85s is diverted to Bologna. The liner have wait on the ground in Bologna passengers for following flight (SN3140). They have left Bologna with huge large delay due to be bussed here from Florence. About 4 hours is the delay matured.
MERIDIANA flight Barcelona-Florence operated by A319s asked to land in Bologna for the same wetaher reasons.

AIR VALLEE with AMSTERDAM AIRLINES

2008-09-07T13:41:00.003+02:00

AIR VALLEE/AMSTERDAM AIRLINES is scheduled today where flight number RVL9401/2 will fly from and to Sharm el Sheikh (21:10-21:55 at BLQ) with A320s PH-AAX.

Go BLQ - Bologna Aviation NewsToday and Spotting

2008-09-07T13:31:00.003+02:00

Hi friends,
Marco Finelli and Lucio Alfieri have created this new BLog.
We would like to inform yours, possibly everyday about everything runs here.
News, logs, highlights will have space here.
Spotters interested to come in Bologna for spotting and photography can write us and we will reply hopefully to satisfy any need or questions sent ASAP.
Stay tuned everyday on this BLog and you'll be not disappointed.
Thanks guys!
Marco and Lucio