✈ JFK → OTP
9H 50M FLIGHT. TWO MOVIES, NO SLEEP, ONE EXISTENTIAL CRISIS.
Flight from New York to Bucharest
From JFK (JFK), USA North America → Henri Coandă (OTP), Romania Europe
↔ Flying the other way? Bucharest → New York
How long is the flight from New York to Bucharest?
A nonstop flight from New York (JFK) to Bucharest (OTP) takes about 9 hours 50 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 4,742 miles (7,631 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
9h 50m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
4,742 mi
7,631 km · great-circle
Avg speed
776 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
New York timezone
UTC-4
America/New_York
Bucharest timezone
UTC+3
Europe/Bucharest
Time difference
+7h
7 hours ahead
Jet lag (rough)
~7d
Eastward — worse
CO₂ footprint per passenger
Economy class, single passenger. Source: DEFRA 2024 averages.
This flight emits roughly 3.6× the CO₂ of an equivalent train trip and 0.9× a car driven alone over the same distance.
Flights from New York
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- New York → Las Vegas
- New York → Seattle
Long-haul from New York
- New York → Melbourne
- New York → Bali (Denpasar)
- New York → Sydney
- New York → Singapore
- New York → Kuala Lumpur
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- New York → Bangkok
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Flights to Bucharest
Nearest origins
- Istanbul → Bucharest
- Budapest → Bucharest
- Athens → Bucharest
- Vienna → Bucharest
- Warsaw → Bucharest
- Prague → Bucharest
- Rome → Bucharest
- Munich → Bucharest
- Berlin → Bucharest
- Milan → Bucharest
Long-haul to Bucharest
- Auckland → Bucharest
- Sydney → Bucharest
- Melbourne → Bucharest
- Santiago → Bucharest
- Buenos Aires → Bucharest
- Mexico City → Bucharest
- Bali (Denpasar) → Bucharest
- Los Angeles → Bucharest
- São Paulo → Bucharest
- San Francisco → Bucharest