Route brief · NYC → OTP
New York → Bucharest
$711
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 16 – Oct 14 · 28 nights
French Bee1 stop
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.
Best time to be in Bucharest: May–Jun · Sep–Oct. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 10 hours outbound, on a 28-night trip — ticketed under French Bee, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $711 for 7,639 km each way, that works out to about $47 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 10 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Bucharest, this fare ranks 4th — 24% above the $573 from Seoul. For context, the middle fare among the 37 routes of similar length we watch out of New York is $584. We have 2 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
The 8 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 7% lower than when tracking began on Aug 17 — $826 then versus $765 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 $416, on Oct 9.
- Sun, Sep 6$781
- Mon, Sep 7$781
- Tue, Sep 8$1,001
- Wed, Sep 9$878
- Sat, Sep 12$721
- Tue, Sep 15$715
- Wed, Sep 16$711
- Fri, Oct 9$749
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.
Route facts
- Airports
- JFK · Newark (EWR) · LaGuardia (LGA) ↔ Henri Coandă (OTP)
- Flight time
- ~10 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~7,639 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- French Bee
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
NYC → OTP, answered.
How far in advance should I book NYC → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from New York to Bucharest?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under French Bee. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
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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