Business and Financial Review • Jun 4, 2025
Business and Financial Review
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Another month of growth for Bologna Airport: after April, also in May passengers exceeded one million (to be precise: 1,070,007), with an increase of 2.8% on the same month of 2024.
In detail, both passengers on international flights (803,689, +3.2% on May 2024) and passengers on domestic flights (266,318, +1.6% on the same month of 2024) are growing. Movements, at 7,529, are practically unchanged compared to 2024 (+0.5%), while freight, equal to 4,008 tons, show a decrease of 5.5%.
The favorite destinations for May 2025 were, in order: Catania, Tirana, Barcelona, Palermo, Paris Charles De Gaulle, Istanbul, Cagliari, Brindisi, Madrid and Bucharest Otopeni. The busiest day of the month was Sunday 4, with 39,299 passengers between arrivals and departures.
In the first five months of the year, Marconi's total passengers were 4,227,770, up 6.5% on the same period in 2024, while movements were 30,545, up 3.9% on the corresponding period in 2024.
Freight in the first five months of the year were 18,551 tons, slightly down (-1.0%) on the same period in 2024.
Bologna, 4th June 2025

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 2024 10.8 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 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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