Bologna Airport (BLQ)

Routes details the latest new route announcements, as well as the services returning to carriers’ networks.

The agreement seeks to improve connectivity between Italy and Latvia.

France’s flag-carrier becomes the third European airline to operate the aircraft type alongside airBaltic and Swiss.

Eighteen new routes are being launched from the city as low-cost operators continue to fight for market share on Italian routes.

Starting June 2, Italy will waive its mandatory 10-day COVID-19 quarantine rule

Three new bases will open in Greece alongside the expansion of existing bases in Italy and France.

The three airlines are adding capacity and routes to the Sardinian airport this summer.

Wizz Air’s plans to open a new base in Palermo come as the Sicilian airport’s largest operator Ryanair prepares to increase its presence.

Two services to popular vacation destinations are joining the LCC’s network from the Italian city.

The ULCC has postponed the launch of its first base in Russia, blaming ongoing COVID-19 travel restrictions in Europe.

The Portuguese airline plans to offer six new routes during the summer 2021 season.

Routes analyzes some of the services returning as well as new routes being launched. This week we look at Qatar Airways resuming Lagos; Wizz Air’s first Italian domestic routes; and American Airline adding Daytona Beach flights.

The carrier will launch five new routes from the airport in October.

Routes analyzes some of the services returning as well as new routes being launched. This week we look at Turkish Airlines’ delayed plans to serve Vancouver; Forli in northern Italy securing its first route in more than seven years; and S7 adding a leisure destination from Novosibirsk.

Romanian carrier Blue Air will grow its network at home and in Italy later this year.

Hungarian carrier Wizz Air is already planning to expand its first Russian base before it even opens.

KLM plans to further expand its European and intercontinental flying in the coming months, restoring connectivity to 78% of the destinations it originally intended to serve this summer.

Ryanair is set to enter the Jordanian market from next month as the Irish low-cost carrier further expands its operations in the Middle East.

The new flight, operated by a three-class Boeing 777-300ER, will add 5,040 international seats per week to and from the city, enabling customers in Bologna and the surrounding region to conveniently access key Emirates destinations in the Far East, Middle East, Africa and West Asia.

The airline will introduce a twice weekly connection between Budapest and Bologna from June 5, 2015 and a twice weekly link between Budapest and Glasgow from June 13, 2015. The latter service has been partly driven by recent surveys in which Hungarian consumers listed Scotland on top of their wish list for future routes from the carrier.

With five based aircraft, Berlin will become the airlines’ 73rd base, and will see the launch of sixteen new routes, bringing the total number of destinations to 22.

The addition of the routes from Liège will expand the VLM network to nine destinations in six countries and will continue a recent growth in passenger operations at Liège Bierset Airport, which is better known as a major European freight hub.

CSA Czech Airlines is introducing five additional European destinations for its 2015 summer schedule, in addition to another five which were announced last autumn.

The Alitalia network will be one of the main pillars of the new strategy alongside Cooperation, Fleet, Guest Service and Brand with a new three-hub strategy in Italy being introduced.

A recent social media report by ACI Europe shows the ways in which European airports are using social media to communicate with their customers. We’ve broken the report down to analyse each social media platform separately, and add some of our own insights.