one way ticket

[carpediem 0]

i will be buying a one-way ticket, and later get returns from thailand. (this suits my specific situation vis a vis los stay, travel out, etc). qatari is offering 340 euros from paris (about 238 pounds). i reckon that's pretty good. am i wrong?

 

presumably i won't have a problem at check in or immigration given that i have a non immigrant o visa valid to next april.

 

cd

[Dave 21]

click on this link and you will find out its not recomended

 

http://www.thaiconsul-uk.com/pdfs/Aj%20%20...ht%20Ticket.pdf

[Chivas 0]

You are perfectly okay holding the visa that you have.

 

Chivas

[Eneukman 1]

You are perfectly okay holding the visa that you have.

 

Chivas

 

Agreed. When I was returning to Thailand from Vietnam, I was asked at Check In whether I had an onward ticket from Thaland. I just pointed to the visa in my passport and had no problems after that.

 

Alan

[whitespider 1]

Yes if you have a non-imm O you will be OK with a one way ticket. Even the link Dave gave says its OK.

 

Where you might have a problem is at check-in. I once had a terrible problem with Air France trying to convince them that I could fly so it might be worth checking with the carrier before you purchase.

 

The price you have been quoted seems excellent. By comparison one way direct tickets are around £315 (EVA) at the moment although that is from London.

[carpediem 0]

thanks for the reassurance on the visa situation - multiple entry non immigrant o visa - and potential problem. the bad experience with air france troubles me a bit - i'm going to take qatar, but it is from paris (french counter staff). on verra. but it seems unreasonable that the airline should sell the ticket & then make a problem at the desk. but on overall response here i don't anticipate a problem.

 

thanks for recommending the ticket price. i'm going to get it today.

 

on a different if predictable topic, can anyone recommend an easy and competitive online way of buying international airtickets in thailand? or a phone no of such an agent? thanks.

 

cd

[Bullfrog 2,224]

Hi Carpe Diem.

 

1. I always purchace my return tickets in Thailand so when I return it is effevtevely on a one way ticket. I have been doing this for years no problem EXCEPT once for a Kiwi mate who does the same thing and was marched off once at arrivals immigration and made to pay for a single back to NZ, despite pointing at his NON O. Yes it is unusual, but it was a time when NZ and Thailand were doing tit for tat changes to the visa agreements ( 7 or 8 years ago).and the current situation with visas is rather dynamic isn't it!!!

 

2. I can fully recommend buying tickets from Suteera Yampeng, leetour@hotmail.com, I do this over the internet , arrive in Pattaya and collect my next return e ticket from her one hour after paying. She is also the cheapest I have found.

[carpediem 0]

hi bullfrog

 

thanks for the reassurance about the one way ticket - just before the sting in the tail - about the nz friend frogmarched and the visa situation being 'dynamic' these days! in my case the die is cast - i've just bought my one way ticket.

 

thanks very much also for the agent's email. i trust she's competitive with tktsw in all directions with all airlines - europe and asia.

 

cd

[Bullfrog 2,224]

I use her to/fm West Africa on Emerates or Etheopian. She was recommended to me by a very longtime Pattaya expat who has used her to Europe aswell.