Route brief · AMS → OTP
Amsterdam → Bucharest
$214
−7% vs typical
seasonal median $230 · difference $16
Oct 3 – Oct 16 · 13 nights
TaromNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $224–$230
- Board rank
- Stronger than 11%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefOTPBucharestBelle-époque villas next to communist concrete, and the cheapest capital in the European Union.Best windowMay–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsHenri Coandă (OTP)All routes into BucharestWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Oct is the cheapest for AMS → OTP. Best time to be there: May–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in October around $214 and peak in December near $292 — a $78 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Tarom nonstop and takes about 3 hours outbound, on a 13-night trip. At $214 for 1,777 km each way, that works out to about $60 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 10 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Bucharest, this fare ranks 10th — 3.3× the $64 we hold from London. For context, the middle fare among the 13 routes of similar length we watch out of Amsterdam is $155.
The 6 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 26% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $314 then versus $231 now, across 7 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $179, on Oct 2.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Cheapest in Oct · around $214
7% below the $230 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Amsterdam → Bucharest · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Schiphol (AMS) ↔ Henri Coandă (OTP)
- Flight time
- ~3 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,777 km each way
- Typical price
- $230 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Tarom
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
AMS → OTP, answered.
Is $214 a good price for Amsterdam to Bucharest?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $230 round-trip and this fare is 7% under it, about $16. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Amsterdam to Bucharest?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Bucharest are May–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book AMS → Bucharest?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 4 months of cached fares, Oct comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Amsterdam to Bucharest?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Tarom). The outbound leg runs around 3 hours.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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