Route brief · ROM → OTP
Rome → Bucharest
$64
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Nov 6 – Nov 9 · 3 nights
Wizz Air MaltaNonstop
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 flies Wizz Air Malta nonstop and takes about 2.5 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip. At $64 for 1,139 km each way, that works out to about $28 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $41 that short-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 5 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Bucharest, this fare ranks 3rd — 1.6× the $39 we hold from Milan. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 16 routes of similar length we watch out of Rome, where the middle fare is $67. We have 3 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 6 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 51% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $187 then versus $92 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 $69, on Sep 9.
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
- Fiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA) ↔ Henri Coandă (OTP)
- Flight time
- ~2.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,139 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Wizz Air Malta
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
ROM → OTP, answered.
How far in advance should I book ROM → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Rome to Bucharest?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Wizz Air Malta). The outbound leg runs around 2.5 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.
Next step
Sleeping in Bucharest?
Lock the flight first — then compare stays for Nov 6 – Nov 9 · 3 nights.
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