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Cheap Flights from John F Kennedy Intl to Bucharest (JFK-OTP)

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for round-trip flights from John F Kennedy Intl to Bucharest that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
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Recent round-trip flight deals from John F Kennedy Intl to Bucharest

Wed, Nov 26 - Wed, Dec 10
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9:00 pm - 3:50 pmJFK-OTP
11h 50m1 stop
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6:40 am - 2:15 pmOTP-JFK
14h 35m1 stop
Wed, Oct 29 - Wed, Nov 12
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7:10 pm - 12:30 pmJFK-OTP
11h 20m1 stop
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6:30 am - 1:05 pmOTP-JFK
13h 35m1 stop
Tue, Oct 28 - Tue, Nov 11
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10:00 pm - 3:45 pmJFK-OTP
11h 45m1 stop
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6:40 am - 2:15 pmOTP-JFK
14h 35m1 stop
Tue, Nov 25 - Tue, Dec 9
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9:00 pm - 3:45 pmJFK-OTP
11h 45m1 stop
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6:40 am - 2:15 pmOTP-JFK
14h 35m1 stop
Sun, Jan 11 - Thu, Jan 29
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5:30 pm - 12:20 pmJFK-OTP
11h 50m1 stop
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1:05 pm - 3:40 pmOTP-JFK
33h 35m1 stop
$401Lufthansa
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Sat, Jan 10 - Fri, Jan 30
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1:00 am - 12:05 pmJFK-OTP
28h 05m1 stop
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6:00 am - 7:20 pmOTP-JFK
20h 20m1 stop
$404Delta
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Mon, Oct 27 - Tue, Nov 11
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12:20 am - 11:00 pmJFK-OTP
16h 40m1 stop
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8:00 am - 2:20 pmOTP-JFK
13h 20m1 stop
$410British Airways
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Mon, Dec 29 - Tue, Jan 13
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1:00 am - 10:50 pmJFK-OTP
14h 50m1 stop
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6:05 am - 6:13 pmOTP-JFK
19h 08m2 stops
$411Delta
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Mon, Jan 5 - Wed, Feb 4
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8:05 pm - 3:30 pmJFK-OTP
12h 25m1 stop
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8:05 am - 4:00 pmOTP-JFK
14h 55m1 stop
$416British Airways
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Thu, Sep 4 - Mon, Sep 15
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5:45 pm - 11:10 pmJFK-OTP
22h 25m1 stop
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6:30 pm - 3:45 pmOTP-JFK
28h 15m1 stop
$424LOT
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KAYAK's insights & trends for John F Kennedy Intl to Bucharest flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from John F Kennedy Intl to Bucharest to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from New York John F Kennedy Airport to Bucharest?

The average price of all round-trip flights from New York John F Kennedy Intl Airport to Bucharest Otopeni Intl Airport clicked on KAYAK for each day over the last 12 months.

If your flying dates are flexible, you should consider flying to Bucharest on a Wednesday, as we generally find the cheapest rates on that day for this route. On the other hand, Monday is the most expensive day to fly from New York John F Kennedy Airport to Bucharest. For your return ticket, we recommend flying on a Tuesday and avoiding Mondays for the best deals.

What is the cheapest month to fly from New York John F Kennedy Intl Airport to Bucharest Otopeni Intl Airport?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from New York John F Kennedy Intl Airport to Bucharest Otopeni Intl Airport, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.

The cheapest month for flights from New York John F Kennedy Intl Airport to Bucharest Otopeni Intl Airport is January, where tickets cost $517 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are June and December, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $743 and $699 respectively.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from New York John F Kennedy Intl Airport to Bucharest Otopeni Intl Airport?

The average round-trip price for all non-stop flights, flights with one layover, and flights with two layovers for the route found by users searching on KAYAK in the last 2 weeks.

No, with an average price for the route of $1,616, prices are generally cheapest when you fly direct.

How far in advance should I book a flight from New York John F Kennedy Intl Airport to Bucharest Otopeni Intl Airport?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from New York John F Kennedy Intl Airport to Bucharest Otopeni Intl Airport, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.

To get a below average price on the flight from New York John F Kennedy Intl Airport to Bucharest Otopeni Intl Airport, you should book around 2 weeks before departure, which saves you about 11% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 19 weeks before departure.

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Low seasonJanuary
Cheapest flight$158
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 19% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 3% increase in price.
Flight from New York John F Kennedy Airport to Bucharest

When to book flights from John F Kennedy Intl to Bucharest

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from John F Kennedy Intl to Bucharest based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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FAQs for booking New York John F Kennedy Airport to Bucharest flights

  • What are the most popular layover cities on flights from New York John F Kennedy Airport (JFK) to Henri Coanda International Airport (OTP)?

    Most airlines on this route offer one-stop flights from JFK to OTP, as there are no direct flights. The most common layover towns are Warsaw for LOT Polish Airlines, Istanbul when flying with Turkish Airlines, and Munich for Lufthansa flights.

  • Which hotels are close to Henri Coanda International Airport (OTP)?

    If you get to Bucharest too late and need somewhere to rest for the night, there are several hotels nearby that you can book a stay. The Hilton Garden Inn Bucharest Airport and Vienna House Easy by Wyndham Bucharest Airport are only 5-7 minutes away from the airport.

  • Is long-term parking available at John F Kennedy Airport?

    Yes, it is. If you are planning to be in Bucharest for a while and need somewhere to park your car, John F Kennedy Airport (JFK) offers long-term parking facilities at a cost. This can be found at Lot 9 found at Lefferts Boulevard. This can also be booked before your date of travel using the airport’s ParkingAccess service.

  • Which eco-friendly airlines fly between New York (JFK) and Bucharest (OTP)?

    Most airlines have made a commitment to play their part in the reduction of carbon emissions by using sustainable products and fuel sources and improving fuel consumption. LOT Polish Airlines, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Turkish Airlines, and SWISS Airlines are some airlines on this route that have put sustainable travel at the forefront of their operations.

  • What is the cheapest flight from New York John F Kennedy Intl Airport to Bucharest Otopeni Intl Airport?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from New York John F Kennedy Intl Airport to Bucharest Otopeni Intl Airport was $158 for a one-way ticket and $353 for a round-trip.

  • Do I need a passport to fly between New York John F Kennedy Airport and Bucharest?

    A passport is required to fly from New York John F Kennedy Airport to Bucharest.

  • Which airlines offer Wi-Fi service onboard planes from New York John F Kennedy Airport to Bucharest?

    EL AL, Virgin Atlantic, Air France, Delta, and KLM offer inflight Wi-Fi service on the New York John F Kennedy Airport to Bucharest flight route.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from New York John F Kennedy Airport to Bucharest?

    The Airbus A330 is the aircraft model that flies most regularly on the New York John F Kennedy Airport to Bucharest flight route.

  • On which days can I fly direct from New York John F Kennedy Airport to Bucharest?

    You can catch a nonstop flight from New York John F Kennedy Airport to Bucharest on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from New York to Bucharest, Delta or LOT?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from New York to Bucharest are Delta and LOT. With an average price for the route of $729 and an overall rating of 8.0, Delta is the most popular choice. LOT is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $617 and an overall rating of 7.6.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from New York John F Kennedy Airport to Bucharest?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from New York John F Kennedy Airport to Bucharest.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from New York John F Kennedy Airport to Bucharest?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Bucharest from New York John F Kennedy Airport is likely to change within 7 days, so travelers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from New York John F Kennedy Airport to Bucharest?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly to Bucharest with an airline and back to New York John F Kennedy Airport with another airline. Booking your flights between New York John F Kennedy Airport and OTP can sometimes prove cheaper using this method.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from New York John F Kennedy Airport to Bucharest?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to Bucharest from New York John F Kennedy Airport up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

KAYAK’s top tips for finding a cheap flight from New York John F Kennedy Intl Airport to Bucharest Otopeni Intl Airport

  • Looking for a cheap flight? 25% of our users found flights on this route for $359 or less one-way and $675 or less round-trip.
  • Upgrades from Economy seats to First-or Business Class are available on some airlines operating flights between New York John F Kennedy Airport (JFK) and Henri Coanda International Airport (OTP) in Bucharest. LOT Polish Airlines and SWISS Airlines offer this option to their passengers where they can bid for an upgrade up to 48 hours prior to departure, and get a response 24 hours before takeoff.
  • There are no VISA requirements for the journey from New York to Bucharest, as long as your stay doesn’t extend for more than 90 days in any 180 days. However, your U.S. passport should be valid for at least three months after the day you leave.
  • Are you planning on staying at a hotel upon arrival in Bucharest? Consider traveling from JFK with Turkish Airlines or LOT Polish Airlines as they offer the option to bundle your flight ticket with a hotel booking at a discounted price.
  • In the event that you have an unaccompanied minor going to Bucharest (OTP) on their own from New York JFK, look into booking them a flight on Lufthansa Airlines. The airline has a care service that is compulsory for children aged between 5 and 11 years traveling unattended, which ensures that minors are well-taken care of before, during, and after the flight.
  • Getting to downtown Bucharest from OTP is made easy by the availability of buses that offer public transport. The bus stop can be found at the front of the Arrivals terminal. You can also get several taxi services, with the taxi stand situated at Arrivals, close to the exit of the main terminal. Additionally, you can choose to get a car rental from one of the agencies located in the passageway in the middle of the Departures and Arrivals terminal.

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Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from John F Kennedy Intl to Bucharest

 
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DeltaOverall score based on 7980 reviews
7.9Entertainment
8.2Boarding
7.3Food
7.9Comfort
8.5Crew
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Flight was canceled, and no effort was made to help with rebooking, no hotel vouchers, no car transportation and minimal food voucher and most places for food were closed by the time the voucher was given. Waited for 3 hours for bags. Simply the worst travel experience I have ever had

2.0 MediocreDana, Jul 2025JFK - DEN
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Flight was canceled, and no effort was made to help with rebooking, no hotel vouchers, no car transportation and minimal food voucher and most places for food were closed by the time the voucher was given. Waited for 3 hours for bags. Simply the worst travel experience I have ever had

At first, we were on the runway for about an hour, literally. The Captain did explain that the Control Tower just had a change shift (sounds like an unrealistic excuse) and then that we had to change a runway. A regular economy seat is made for 12 yo twiggy. I understand Delta wants to push for an upgrade, but after sitting in a Comfort seat and in First class. I would say First class is not worthy of my money. The landing was delayed because of the weather in NYC, I don't hold that against Delta, of course. The Captain did alert us to that upon takeoff in Vegas and again as we reached NY.

Not a "Delta" issue, but a JFK issue: We booked a connecting flight with 3 1/2 hours between to clearn immigration and customs. Our inbound flight (BCN to JFK) was on the taxiway 45 minutes which ate into our layover time. Immigtration was insanely quick with the CBP MPC app; however, clearing TSA (again, after we were ALREADY cleared in Spain on the inbound international flight) took over 95 minutes. This left us with 10 minutes before boarding the connecting flight (JFK to SAN) to walk to the far end of Terminal 4 and try to find food. We didn't find any food that could promise to serve us in under 10 minutes so we boarded the Delta flight after coming off a plance and an 8-hour flight knowing that we wouldn't be served any food on the next 5 1/2 hour flight. I feel like Delta needs to put pressure on the JFK TSA to open more screening stations (by our count, we saw only 5 scanners open and a line of - as we said - over 90 minutes. The insult is that we WERE ALREADY SCREENED through TSA, but as you come off one flight into the USA, you have to go through the whole process again. It seems like if you have a connecting flight, there should be a way to pass through immigration and customs without needing to return through TSA.

Overall, aside from the baggage issue, it was as good as one expects.

The entertainment and wifi mostly didn't work on this flight.

Terrible entertainment system - kept freezing and audio kept cutting out. Snacks were mediocre at best for a 5 hour flight.

I am still upset that my bag was lost on a recent trip to Rome ; we were inconvenienced and out €150 Euros ; delta has refused to reimburse us

Our bag was lost so that made unnecessary chaos On our trip

Terrible and im avoiding them in the future. My initial flight was delayed causing me to rebook my flight and when speaking with the representative to rebook I explained this is the second time my flights were delayed and they did nothing to help me. I wasn't booked to comfort plus or given a voucher or anything. I was almost late for my meeting that I needed to attend on Monday because of the games delta played delaying my flights even more and putting me in the very back of the plane next to an extremely intoxicated passenger

The dear was very limited in space. I could put my water bottle in seat basket. Also, there was no inflight entertainment in the delta app?

The baggage drop-off in Stuttgart is bad: after online check-in you cannot use the automated baggage drop off as indicated on the website. You can use the terminals but have to cue to 1 of three open and slowly working counters to drop the bags. took about 45 minutes wait time.

Our first flight was delayed so we missed our connecting flight. However it was easy to book a later flight on their app.

My flight was delayed by 6 hours then I missed BOTH of my connecting flights, I then had to stay in the AIRPORT at JFK because soooooo many people also suffered from missing flights and there was no hotels available. I would like to be compensated for this experience! I had to stay in the airport for over 16 hours!

Klm start boarding while somw air issue in the plan

The service was great. However the lounge only gets passing grade

I appreciate that KLM was proactive in informing me of the 2 hour delay which enabled me to replan my travel. It was a bit stressful not knowing whether my connection from Montreal to Ottawa was happening. But the ground and air crew did a good job at comforting and assuring me.

Cabin crew were excellent, very proffesional, polite and friendly, in flight snack was underwhelming, a packet of cheese biscuits, im sure KLM could run to a sandwich!

Transfer at Amsterdam airport is very convenient and the airport is easy to navigate. Boarding was also quick and easy. Cabin crew were excellent and the meals were good, although lacking in options.

Overall very positive. Boarding was quick and organized. Cabin was clean and seats were reasonably comfortable. Cabin crew was excellent and the meals provided were also of good quality

This fight left ahead of time which meant it arrived early which was great. Staff were very professional, but as with all these Short hop Flights the food was a disappointing snack There was no entertainment on this flight, but I did not expect any

The food was great and the service and attitude was amazing!!

It was a great experience. The only thing I would have changed was that the bathrooms were never cleaned and they got very dirty.

Old airplanes small seats expensive tickets, not as expected overall and not comfortable according to the price

It was an OK flight with below mediocre service by their flight attendants

Wasted a lot of time trying to find the CDG lounge - it was not next to the connecting flight gate like the Air France staff said.

My experience was good overall, the quality of the food really decreased! There used to be a choice between meat and fish now it’s between chicken and pasta! In the choices of entertainment meditation has been added which is very good. Soft chair workout to improve blood circulation and avoid phlebitis should be added.

The only reason the overall rating wasn't "excellent" was due to problems in claiming luggage. The bags are delivered to the main area (Cinta 35) for domestic passengers, but to a DIFFERENT ROOM for international arrivees. After waiting 30 minutes, someone (who didn't appear to be from Air France or the airport) told us to go to another area. There we found our bags, which appeared to have been awaiting us for a while. We had to go through a bag check before leaving the airport. If we had been alerted to this possibility, or better yet, been to go directly to Cinta 34, we could have eliminated quite a bit of waiting.

Much better than the major US Carriers especially in Biz Class.

I wish that the meal included a vegetable or even a salad instead of couscous! Why serve chicken with rice AND couscous? Service was good overall though a bit lacking in friendliness. Usually on air france I've been offered a glass of champagne before dinner, wine with dinner, and a digestif after dinner. We were only offered wine this time!

My wife and I had a row to ourselves after moving seats. There were no TVs and you had to buy food. So we did nothing but had a quick nap. Flight was fine.

My experience with British Airways is excellent, thanks for all 🫶🏻✈️

Old tired plane, Uncomfortable business class seat. Breakfast dreadful and meagre. At least flight was on time!

Safe arrival. Improvement on Time efficiency Effective Communication will be great.

The crew is very friendly and helpful. The food is good for airplane food. The flight is long and hard to sleep. The leg space is great. The plane arrived in plenty of time.

A good flight back to Tampa and thankfully although we had a 90 minute delay because of thunder storms from Charlotte to bottom iof Florida, it was a prudent to avoid these for a comfortable flight as opposed to being tossed around with turbulence.

They removed our booking without telling us. Cost us thousands to book last minute

They’ve lost my bag and I have no way of really getting in touch with anyone and have received no updates.

The entertainment selection was ok, but overall not bad! The crew was great.

The payment system was not working so was unable to connect wifi the entire flight

The screen didn’t work and I didn’t get the seat upgrade I paid $300 for. They were no help with that,

This airline cancelled 3 of my tickets and did not even notify me of the cancellation therefoe my advice is to stay awaway!!

The flights that i booked with them were totally unreliable as they cancelled and/or switched itinereis left and right so I definitely could not recommend them. It was as also imppossible to contact them for anything-hence my poor rating

It was an hour late, but these days, that's not a big deal All went well, can't complain

Just fine. Flight was full, so that's not easy, but in general, it was a fine experience, no problems

No real business class on this plane, I had to ask for the food 1.5hrs after take off, super warm beer, very very poor service

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