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Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (LIPE/BLQ) is a major international airport serving the city of Bologna in Emilia-Romagna, situated a few kilometres northwest of the city centre. It offers a single long, ILS-equipped runway and full air traffic control, making it a straightforward if busy destination for instrument-rated visitors flying into northern Italy.
Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport lies on the northwestern edge of the city of Bologna in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, and is named after the Bologna-born Nobel laureate and radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi. It functions as a busy international airport and hub for Ryanair and Neos, handling scheduled and charter traffic across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. For a simulator pilot it is of interest chiefly as a well-equipped commercial field with a single long instrument runway, offering realistic airline-style approach and departure procedures into a controlled, high-density airspace environment.
The airport sits in controlled airspace associated with a large international airport, roughly 6 km northwest of Bologna city centre. Approach service is split into East and West sectors, reflecting the volume and geographic spread of arriving and departing traffic in the area.
Bologna has a single physical runway, 12/30, of asphalt construction with a length of approximately 8,150 ft (2,484 m). The runway is lit and equipped with an ILS, supporting instrument approaches to both ends.
Radio services at Bologna include Approach East on 118.15 MHz and Approach West on 133.775 MHz, with a discretional Approach West frequency on 120.1 MHz. Tower operates on 120.8 MHz, with a discretional Tower frequency also on 120.1 MHz, and Ground on 121.925 MHz. ATIS broadcasts are available on 134.875 MHz. The field's single runway, 12/30, is served by an ILS.
The original Bologna airport opened in 1933 some 500 metres west of the present terminal site. That earlier airfield remained in use until the 1970s, by which time growing passenger numbers had made it impractically small, prompting its replacement by the current airport on an adjacent site. The airport takes its name from Guglielmo Marconi, the Bologna-born electrical engineer and Nobel Prize-winning pioneer of radio.
Today Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport is a major international airport and a hub for Ryanair and Neos, with a wide network of scheduled and charter routes across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. It operates as a large commercial airport with full air traffic control services and a single runway equipped with an ILS, making it a capable destination for instrument approaches in a busy controlled airspace environment. Given its status as a major commercial hub, general aviation and visiting light aircraft should expect to operate within scheduled airline traffic flows.
