Fastest€155.90
- Wizz Air WA826406:532h 19m09:12Basel BSLBucharest BBU
Door to door 5h 29mCO2 372.2 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
Basel to Bucharest flight
Flights from Basel to Bucharest start at €125.81 and take 5h 29m at their fastest.
The Flights from Basel to Bucharest starts at €125.81 and takes 5h 29m door to door, run by 2 operators over 1,513 km, with around 14 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 14 days before departure.
- 5h 29mDoor to door
- 2h 19mMoving
- €125.81From
- 372.2 kgCO2
The cheapest and the fastest on September 22, 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Lowest CO2€175.96
- Wizz Air Malta WA725107:301h 58m09:28Basel BSLTimişoara TSR
- cfr S-359111:053h 16m14:21Timișoara Est railway stationBucuresti Nord
Changes at Timişoara, with 97 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 8h 48mCO2 281.9 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Airlines
Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From |
|---|---|
| Wizz Air Malta | €125.81 |
 Wizz Air | €128.76 |
The trip ends at Bucuresti Nord. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.
A room in Bucharest for the night the flight gets in
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When to book Basel to Bucharest
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €126.4090 days
- €120.5060 days
- €122.8645 days
- €116.2330 days
- €128.7621 days
- €111.2814 days
- €133.287 days
- €239.683 days
- €233.781 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 14 days ahead, at €111.28.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 115 percent. The most expensive point is €239.68, 3 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 14 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
- €142.63Sun
- €148.13Mon
- €128.76Tue
- €137.13Wed
- €173.43Thu
- €162.43Fri
- €160.23Sat
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Basel
Air
- BSL
Bucharest
Air
- OTP
- BBU
What the journey actually looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
- Direct or connecting
- 75% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 25% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 1,513 km against 1,469 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
- Where the change is
- Connections are made at Zürich, Velika Gorica, Timişoara, Salzburg. The gap between arriving and leaving is 74 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 13 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
- First and last departure
- The first service of the day leaves Basel at 06:37 and the last at 19:58, across 14 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Questions about Basel to Bucharest
The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.
How long does the Flight from Basel to Bucharest take?
The Flight from Basel to Bucharest takes 5h 29m door to door, of which 2h 19m is spent moving. The route runs 1,513 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.
How much does the Flight from Basel to Bucharest cost?
The Flight from Basel to Bucharest starts at €125.81 for one passenger, checked on September 22, 2026. A typical fare is €152.95. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
Who runs the Flight from Basel to Bucharest?
2 operators run the Flight from Basel to Bucharest: Wizz Air Malta, Wizz Air. Between them they file around 14 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.
Which terminal does the Flight from Basel to Bucharest use?
The Flight from Basel to Bucharest leaves from Basel BSL and arrives at Bucharest BBU. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.
When should I book the Flight from Basel to Bucharest?
Fares for the Flight from Basel to Bucharest bottom out around 14 days ahead, at €111.28. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 115 percent, measured on September 22, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
How much CO2 does the Flight from Basel to Bucharest produce?
The Flight from Basel to Bucharest produces about 372.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 1513 km, which works out at roughly 246 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.
Where these numbers come from
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon
- On this page
- Every figure above was computed for Basel to Bucharest on September 8, 2026: 1513 km of route against 1469 km in a straight line, 14 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €125.81, and 5h 29m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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OTP is not in Bucharest, and the drive in from it is the part of the trip nobody plans. We sell the flight and stop at the terminal door.
Getting from OTP into Bucharest
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