Route brief · VIE → OTP
Vienna → Bucharest
$90
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 26 – Oct 30 · 4 nights
RyanairNonstop
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 Ryanair nonstop and takes about 1.5 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip. At $90 for 846 km each way, that works out to about $53 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 8 routes of similar length we watch out of Vienna, where the middle fare is $144. 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.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 11% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $146 then versus $162 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 $60, on Sep 8.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 9 of 101 days priced, from 20 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Route facts
- Airports
- Schwechat (VIE) ↔ Henri Coandă (OTP)
- Flight time
- ~1.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~846 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Ryanair
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
VIE → OTP, answered.
How far in advance should I book VIE → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Vienna to Bucharest?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Ryanair). The outbound leg runs around 1.5 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.
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