Business and Financial Review • Aug 4, 2025
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Another month above the "one million" mark for Bologna Airport. In July, following April, May and June, Marconi passengers once again reached a seven-digit figure, totalling 1,103,012, with a 1.1% decrease compared to the same month in 2024. This result is in line (-1.0%) with the drop in monthly movements essentially due to the status of "airport coordinated" with works in progress inside the terminal for the Summer season 2025.
In detail, international flight passengers totaled 811,678 (-1.7% versus July 2024), while domestic flight passengers reached 291,334 (+0.5% versus the same month in 2024). Movements totaled 7,601 (-1.0%), while freight amounted to 4,018 tons, down 7.4%.
The most popular destinations in July 2025 were, in order: Catania, Tirana, Barcelona, Palermo, Cagliari, Olbia, Istanbul, Brindisi, Madrid and Bucharest Otopeni, with the Sardinian capital recording a 20.7% increase in passengers compared to July 2024. The busiest day of the month was Sunday the 13th, with 39,845 passengers arriving and departing.
In the first seven months of the year, total passengers at Marconi reached 6,399,533, up 4.0% compared to the same period in 2024, while movements totaled 45,620, with an increase of 2.2% over the corresponding period in 2024.
Freight in the first seven months of 2025 amounted to 26,326 tons, with a slight decrease (-2.2%) compared to the same period in 2024.
Bologna, 4th August 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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