Route brief · BRU → OTP
Brussels → Bucharest
$87
−8% vs typical
seasonal median $95 · difference $8
Sep 8 – Sep 15 · 7 nights
RyanairNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $87–$96
- Board rank
- Stronger than 14%
- 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, Sep is the cheapest for BRU → OTP. Best time to be there: May–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in September around $72 and peak in December near $182 — a $110 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Ryanair nonstop and takes about 3 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip. At $87 for 1,761 km each way, that works out to about $25 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $41 that short-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 11 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Bucharest, this fare ranks 3rd — 2.2× the $39 we hold from Milan. It is also the 2nd cheapest of the 11 routes of similar length we watch out of Brussels.
The 4 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 18% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $121 then versus $143 now, across 4 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 $43, on Oct 7.
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 Sep · around $72
24% below the $95 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Brussels → Bucharest · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Zaventem (BRU) · Charleroi (CRL) ↔ Henri Coandă (OTP)
- Flight time
- ~3 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,761 km each way
- Typical price
- $95 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Ryanair
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
BRU → OTP, answered.
Is $87 a good price for Brussels to Bucharest?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $95 round-trip and this fare is 8% under it, about $8. 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 Brussels to Bucharest?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Sep 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 BRU → 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, Sep comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Brussels to Bucharest?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Ryanair). 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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