What airlines offer flights to Phuket from the USA, and can I bring my service dog?

@Linda ********

non stop from Seattle to bkk? what airline? no airline flies non-stop from US to bkk or anywhere in Thailand. lots of flights with stops, and from short to long layovers, or at least, pre-covid this was the case.

many tears ago, thai airlines flew non stops from LA and JFK to bkk -- lost a gon of money flying gas guzzlers Airbus 340-500's I think-- stopped the flights for a while, tried to sell the planes, no one wanted them, so for a while they flew again the LA-BKK non- stop flight. flight, but soon stopped it.

I flew it many times back and forth to see friends in the US. I flew business class and hardly worth it, no lie flat seats, but non- stop was nice.

@Linda ********

That's what non stop means! No stopping.

@Linda ********

so let me ask you. How would you fly to those cities indirectly?

@Linda ********

"Direct Flight" means non stop I thought?

@Kathy **********************

ok point taken. Just a play on the word “direct”.

Ben Miller, 8,259 miles from BKK to LAX. The Boeing 777-200LR is the world's longest range airliner with a range of 17,395km (9,395 miles). Too long now?

@Linda ********

well as far as I understand / as things stand right now - if you were to leave the airport in Bangkok you would have to go into an official ASQ hotel in Bangkok in quarantine for 14 days and your dog would have to go into a dog hotel.

If you don’t plan on leaving the airport you will have a hard time - there are no dog relief areas that I know of and no pet friendly sleeping boxes in the airport that I know of.

The other problem depends on the airline - I don’t know of any domestic flights within Thailand that will transport a dog (even a service dog) - I know Thai airways won’t for example.

That’s why I’m planning on leaving bangkok by car after I arrive. It’s sadly very difficult 😕

However, I did a quick search and it looks like there are flights from New York to Phuket with a stopover in Singapore with Singapore airlines. Singapore airlines does seem to support service dogs so honestly I would find a potential flight that works for you, then contact them and ask them for more information (double check that the service dog would be allowed on both flights - to the US to Singapore and from Singapore to Phuket - double check if there any entry restrictions for Singapore and find out if there are dog relief areas at the airport in Singapore).

Then hopefully if your vaccinated you don’t need to quarantine in Phuket after July 1st