OTP Bucharest

How deep the OTP board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from OTP. This reads the same 153 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 81of the 153 destinations are flown by one airline
• 80destinations run less than once a day
• 16destinations have four or more departures a day
• 45.1%of the destinations name Wizz Air Malta, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at OTP

48 airlines appear on the OTP board and they do not hold it evenly. Wizz Air Malta is on 69 of the 153 destinations, 45.1 per cent of them, and on 30 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 121.4 of the 247.4 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Ryanair on 42 destinations. 27 of the 48 airlines at OTP appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

An airport held this tightly is quick to book and slow to recover: with 69 of the 153 destinations on one airline, the second aircraft on an OTP sector is usually another Wizz Air Malta aircraft, and when there is not one the desk is looking at another airport rather than another airline. That is why the alternate airports listed above matter more at OTP than the destination count does.

How much of the OTP board is daily

Of the 153 destinations, 73 are flown at least once a day and 80 are not, 13 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the OTP board is flown 6 times a week.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: OTP to Wrocław (WRO) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 39.3 of the 247.4 departures a day, 15.9 per cent of the whole board. With 52.3 per cent of the 153 destinations running less than daily, this is a board that rewards booking the outbound before the collection is confirmed rather than after.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Aqaba AQJ	Jordan	Animawings	1	1,839	plan this
Funchal FNC	Portugal	HiSky	1	3,900	plan this
Girona GRO	Spain	Ryanair	1	1,907	plan this
Jebel Ali DWC	the United Arab Emirates	HiSky	1	3,408	plan this
Kos Island KGS	Greece	TAROM	1	869	plan this
Maastricht MST	the Netherlands	TAROM	1	1,669	plan this
Marsa Alam RMF	Egypt	HiSky	1	2,248	plan this
Mytilene MJT	Greece	TAROM	1	615	plan this
Pátrai GPA	Greece	HiSky	1	813	plan this
Preveza/Lefkada PVK	Greece	HiSky	1	768	plan this

The ten destinations out of OTP where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 52 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from OTP

The desk holds the return direction for 100 of the 153 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On 14 of them the return into OTP runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Beijing (PEK) at 0.57 out a day against 0.14 back, Podgorica (TGD) at 0.29 out a day against 0.14 back and Heraklion (HER) at 3.1 out a day against 1.7 back.

It runs the other way as well: London (LGW) files 1.9 a day back into OTP against 1 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at OTP

OTP keeps Europe/Bucharest time, an hour behind Dubai in summer and two hours behind in winter, because the clock here moves and the Gulf clock does not.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 08:00 at OTP, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for eight hours. That is wide enough to settle a customs question at OTP and still make a departure the same day.

The night at OTP

16 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into Vienna (VIE) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from OTP that lands inside it leaves around 22:56, on a modelled block of 1h 34m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from OTP that lands inside it leaves around 22:08, on a modelled block of 2h 52m. Into Munich (MUC) the door shuts at 22:00 local, so the last departure from OTP that lands inside it leaves around 21:00, on a modelled block of 2h 00m. Those three departure times out of OTP are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where OTP turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the Romania country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

The site publishes 21 airport pair pages that start or end at OTP, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Bucharest to Tel Aviv Yafo (TLV), Bucharest to London (LTN) and Bucharest to London (STN).

Twelve courier postings name OTP as the airport a courier here flies from: Bucharest, Ploieşti and Piteşti.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with OTP already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 153 destinations above.