Route brief · SHA → OTP
Shanghai → Bucharest
$885
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 6 – Sep 19 · 13 nights
China Eastern3 stops
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 3 stops and takes about 15.5 hours outbound, on a 13-night trip — ticketed under China Eastern, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $885 for 8,022 km each way, that works out to about $55 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 12 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Bucharest, this fare ranks 9th — 54% above the $573 from Seoul. For context, the middle fare among the 36 routes of similar length we watch out of Shanghai is $759. We have 1 month 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.
Route facts
- Airports
- Pudong (PVG) · Hongqiao (SHA) ↔ Henri Coandă (OTP)
- Flight time
- ~15.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,022 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- China Eastern
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Shanghai to Bucharest?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under China Eastern. 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.
Next step
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