Bologna Airport: 675 thousand passengers in March

MARCONI AIRPORT, 675 THOUSAND PASSENGERS IN MARCH

Gradual recovery compared to the volumes of 2019,

while there is a increase in passengers on 2022

Another month of gradual recovery for Bologna Airport. In March 2023 Marconi recorded 675,925 passengers, which show a significant increase on the same month of 2022 (+21.2%), but which also represent a negative gap of 7.5% compared to March 2019, in the pre-Covid period.

In detail, passengers on domestic flights were 156,343 (-5.7% on 2022 and -3.1% on 2019), while passengers on international flights were 519,582, up sharply on 2022 (+32.5%), but down (-8.7%) on 2019.

Aircraft movements in March 2023 were 5,132, up by 12.3% on 2022, but still down by 11.1% compared to 2019. The volumes of freight increased - to 4,021.6 tonnes - growing by 3.8% on 2022 and by 12.2% on 2019.

The most popular destinations in March 2023 were: Catania, Barcelona, London Heathrow, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Palermo, Madrid, Tirana, Istanbul, Frankfurt and Bucharest.

In the first quarter of 2023, Bologna Airport recorded 1,801,409 passengers (up by 42.0% on 2022 and down by 8.1% on 2019). There were 14,014 total movements (+20.7% on 2022 and -13.2% on 2019), while the freight were 10,678 tonnes (+1.7% on 2022 and +5.9% on 2019).

Bologna, 5th April 2023

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Aeroporto Guglielmo Marconi di Bologna, classified as a "strategic airport" in the centre-north area of the National Airports Plan prepared by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, recorded in 2022 8.5 million passengers, ranking as the seventh biggest Italian airport by number of passengers (Source: Assaeroporti - Aeroporti2030). Located in the heart of the Emilian food valley and the automotive and packaging industrial districts, the airport has a catchment area of about 11 million inhabitants and around 47,000 companies, with a strong propensity to exports and internationalisation and with commercial expansion policies to Eastern Europe and Asia.

As for airport infrastructure, the airport has among its strategic objectives in the next few years an important development plan that mainly concerns the expansion of the terminal, particularly in the parts of security checks and gate area. The company's aim is to make Bologna Airport one of the most modern and functional in Italy, an important gateway to the city and region.

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