Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport
Bucharest, Romania — flight times and distances to airports around the world, computed from published coordinates.
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
How this is worked out
- Both airports' coordinates come from OurAirports, a public-domain dataset — nothing is scraped from another flight site.
- Distance is a great-circle (haversine) figure on a mean earth radius of 6,371.0088 km, so it is the shortest path over the surface, not a road distance.
- Airborne time is that distance divided by 805 km/h, a representative jet cruise speed.
- A flat 25 minutes is added for pushback, taxi, climb, descent and taxi-in, which is why no hop is ever half an hour gate to gate.
- Winds, aircraft type and airline schedule padding are not modelled, and every route page shows the same distance at four cruise speeds so you can see what that assumption is worth.
gate-to-gate hours = 0.42 + distance km / 805
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Flight times from BBU to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Bucharest.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Otopeni, Romania | OTP | 8 km | 26m |
| Sofia, Bulgaria | SOF | 295 km | 47m |
| Istanbul, Turkey | IST | 418 km | 56m |
| Belgrade, Serbia | BEG | 459 km | 59m |
| Pendik, Istanbul, Turkey | SAW | 479 km | 1h 01m |
| Budapest, Hungary | BUD | 621 km | 1h 11m |
| Spata-Artemida, Greece | ATH | 752 km | 1h 21m |
| Balice, Poland | KRK | 781 km | 1h 23m |
| Velika Gorica, Croatia | ZAG | 799 km | 1h 25m |
| Vienna, Austria | VIE | 834 km | 1h 27m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about BBU
What is the airport code for Bucharest?
Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport uses the IATA code BBU and the ICAO code LRBS. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Bucharest Băneasa Aurel Vlaicu International Airport?
It sits at 44.5031° N, 26.1029° E, serving Bucharest in Romania, at an elevation of 297 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
