Rare1 stop · 10.5h
WAS to LIMPeru
Lima
$347
usually $630
−45%
Most monthly lows $409–$630. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · WAS → OTP
Washington to Bucharest
Best fare, round trip
$749
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Wed 5 May
- Return
- Fri 28 May
- Stay
- 23 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 11h
- Airline
British Airways
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 one stop and takes about 11 hours outbound, on a 23-night trip — ticketed under British Airways, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $749 for 7,967 km each way, that works out to about $47 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 4th — 31% above the $573 from Seoul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 30 routes of similar length we watch out of Washington, where the middle fare is $749. 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. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Bucharest: May–Jun · Sep–Oct.
We are still collecting this route's months — 1 month of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Dulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI) ↔ Henri Coandă (OTP)
- Flight time
- ≈11 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈7,967 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- British Airways
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
Good to know
WAS → OTP, answered.
How far in advance should I book WAS → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Washington to Bucharest?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under British Airways. 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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