Chisinau - Post Report Question and Answers
What is your home city/country? How long is the trip to post from there, with what connections? How easy/difficult is it to travel to this city/country?
Portland, OR. 25-35 hours, a few options often with an overnight layover. - Sep 2023
Home base is Germany. It's about two and a half hours by plane, or a 22 hour drive (two and a half days in a car). Air travel to Germany is very easy, with direct flights eight times a week. US expats typically travel to the US by flying to Frankfurt (2.5 hours) and then catching a direct flight to a US destination (eight to nine hours to the US East Coast). In general Chisinau is very well connected by air. Air Moldova, the national airline, is no-frills but competent, and it has flights to destinations all over Europe. It's not hard to slip away for a weekend to Vienna or Florence. By land Moldova is more isolated, but you can still catch a train to Odessa, Ukraine (4 hours away) or to Bucharest, Romania (overnight train). - Apr 2019
DC area. Transiting through Munich (2-hour flight from Chisinau), it takes about 12-13 hours from Chisinau home. - Feb 2014
Washington, DC. About 15 hours including connecting flight in Frankfurt. - Aug 2011
Our home base is basically the DC area. You typically fly through either Vienna or Frankfurt to get home. Connections in both cities are fairly quick, so we can easily get home in a day. - May 2010
14 or so hours from DC through Frankfurt or Vienna. - Mar 2010
