Route brief · ZRH → OTP
Zurich → Bucharest
$199
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Nov 18 – Nov 22 · 4 nights
Air Serbia1 stop
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 one stop and takes about 3 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip — ticketed under Air Serbia, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $199 for 1,387 km each way, that works out to about $72 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 8 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Bucharest, this fare ranks 8th — 5.1× the $39 we hold from Milan. For context, the middle fare among the 13 routes of similar length we watch out of Zurich is $168. 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.
The one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 26% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $269 then versus $199 now, across 3 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 $199, on Nov 18.
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
- Zurich (ZRH) ↔ Henri Coandă (OTP)
- Flight time
- ~3 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,387 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Air Serbia
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
ZRH → OTP, answered.
How far in advance should I book ZRH → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 Zurich to Bucharest?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air Serbia. 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.
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