ExceptionalNonstop · 2.5h
SHA to CANChina
Guangzhou
$120
usually $270
−56%
Most monthly lows $163–$394. Cheaper than every other month on record (10).
Flights · SHA → OTP
Shanghai to Bucharest
Best fare, round trip
$802
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Tue 10 Nov
- Return
- Mon 30 Nov
- Stay
- 20 nights
- Flight
- 2 stops · 18.5h
- Airline
Xiamen Airlines
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
RomaniaBucharestBelle-époque villas next to communist concrete, and the cheapest capital in the European Union.Best windowMay–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsHenri Coandă (OTP)Every route into BucharestFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 18.5 hours outbound, on a 20-night trip — ticketed under Xiamen Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $802 for 8,022 km each way, that works out to about $50 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 14 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Bucharest, this fare ranks 6th — 40% above the $573 from Seoul. For context, the middle fare among the 37 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai is $771. 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. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Bucharest: May–Jun · Sep–Oct.
The 4 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 6% lower than when tracking began on 3 Sep — $885 then versus $836 now, across 5 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 $781, on 31 Oct.
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.
Cached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 2 months of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Henri Coandă (OTP)
- Flight time
- ≈18.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈8,022 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Xiamen Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
Good to know
SHA → OTP, answered.
How far in advance should I book SHA → 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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Shanghai to Bucharest?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Xiamen Airlines. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). 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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