What are the best websites to purchase onward tickets for travel from Thailand?

@Ni**

Flying trains? Where do I catch one of those? 😁

@Richard *******

Skytrain terminal, you can find them in Bangkok.

@Paul ******

There is only one train a day between Bangkok and Butterworth – No. 35. It leaves Bangkok’s Hua Lamphong station at 14:45 and is due to arrive in Butterworth at 13:30 the next day, so that’s almost a whole days’ travel.

PLUS this one:

Eastern & Oriental Express: Bangkok to Singapore:

The route followed by the Eastern & Oriental Express, or simply the E&O as it is known, starts at Hualamphong railway station in Bangkok’s China Town and terminates at Woodlands Train Checkpoint in Singapore. This fantastic journey takes passengers in 5 star luxury along more than 2,000 km of railway through Thailand, Malaysia and then onto Singapore, with several stops on en-route. The journey takes 2 to 3 nights depending on what direction the train is travelling.

@Richard ********

Doesn't run anymore. Thai trains stop at Padang Besar. Then you switch to a Malaysian train there.

@Justin ****

you need to get educated before you open your mouth. Your very ignorant on this topic.

@Charlie ******

I've only shared my suspicions and personal experience. Neither require education, though ignorance (and denial) are surely on display here.

@Justin ****

considering how many hundreds if not thousands of posts I've seen in the various Thai travel advice groups over the past decade from people who used these tickets successfully and reported they were indeed verifiable by the customer by simply entering the PNR code and their own last name into the "Manage Your Booking" section of the website of the airline on the ticket, I would say there is plenty of proof it is real and works. Why not spend the $10 or so and try it yourself if you are so convinced it's a scam. Have them issue, say a British Airways ticket from Bangkok to London for a specific date, then go to the BA website and enter your ticket confirmation code and last name and see if BA shows it as a valid confirmed ticket. These onward ticketing sites promise the tickets will show as valid for a certain period, say 3 days, so check again right before they expire and see if they still show as valid, and then check after the expiration and I imagine you will see the ticket now shows as cancelled. I believe the way these websites work is that they are a travel agency and book a fully refundable full fare ticket for their "client" which they can then cancel later as if their client cancelled it, before the period that the agency would get billed by the airline for the ticket. That's just a guess of how they are able to do it, by exploiting a payment terms loophole for when travel agencies have to pay airlines for tickets they book for clients.

@Pui ****

yeah people keep recommending then without doing any research. People are sheep's that just keeps repeating what other people say.

A lot of bloggers recommend them too because these onward ticket sites pays them referral commission.

@Pui ****

I have purchased one, and it just didn’t look real enough for me, and the airline website only showed the flight was canceled but didn’t show anything on screen that directly unequivocally linked my name to an actual flight.

I have nothing to prove here, and already have the way I do it that to me is Way more secure.

To each their own, I reserve my risk tolerance for other things. Good luck.

@Justin ****

Have you even looked on the websites for these types of services? They say the ticket is fully valid and can be verified by anyone by typing in the PNR (ticket confirmation code) into any airline website or into Amadeus (the common software all airlines and travel agents use to pull up bookings) and it will show as a completely valid ticket during the time period that the service promises to keep it valid. The whole point is that it is verifiable as a real ticket, not just that it looks real, otherwise anyone can just edit a ticket confirmation email from any old ticket and make a fake one. There have been posts in the past from people who said the airline check-in agent actually typed in the PNR code to check if the ticket is real.