Which airlines from the UK allow one-way tickets for Non-O retirement visa holders to Thailand without requiring onward travel proof?

@George ******

Oh. So you’ve never been asked and therefore infer that no one else on the planet will be asked either.

Well heads up buddy. Shit happens. Some people are asked and some are flatly denied boarding unless they provide an onward ticket.

@Stuart ********

You know what I don't recognise the word buddy, it's a mongrel Yank word. Have I said no one else would be asked, NO I didn't. How many times have you, flown in & out of Thailand, I suspect your one of the people that has no experience of multiple trips in and out and if American airlines are finicky about asking at check-in for a return ticket, or onward travel ticket, then that's up to them. The question asked was what do people think about having a one-way ticket, will they be questioned at check-in, in whichever country he is a National of. I stayed that I was never asked when leaving multiple different countries and never asked to produce a return ticket by Thai immigration. What anyone else does is their business. I wasn't advising anyone to try & travel in a one-way ticket, I was just stating my experiences. They say the more you drive, the more chance you have of being involved in a road accident. On that basis the more to fly out of any country & into other countries the chance of being asked at check-in or by immigration in any country for a return document increases, so unlike all the touristy/ retired commenters on Sadbook, I commented my experiences that's all. Some of you Thailand based expats need to get a life.

@George ******

The OP asked which of the (out of) UK airlines wouldn’t give him any issues with a one way ticket on a Non O visa.

Your reply was that airlines shouldn’t sell one way tickets if you can’t fly on one.

Neither was this relevant to the OPs question nor of any use to anyone. But you had to comment - rather than scroll on by. Sort of an exact example for someone that needs to get a life.

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve flown in/out of Thailand since 1988 (nearly 20 years before Swampy existed) on countless different visa types.

I’ve been asked once for a ticket out by a check in clerk who hadn’t realised I had a visa. Once I’d pointed that out there was no further issue.

My experience would be completely irrelevant to the OPs question as I am not them.

However I advised that they don’t need a ticket out on a Non O visa, but may still have an issue with an inexperienced check in clerk.

@Stuart ********

Go on any airline website to book a flight. They asked From/To. Date/Dates. One-way or return. I rest my case and by the way I clicked on your reply, but haven't read it and do not intend reading it.

@George ******

What case might that be? That your reply is nonsensical or that you consider yourself right?

No idea. Just move on.

@Kirsten ********

😂 you couldn’t make this up 😂

But, hey, this is Thailand 🤷🏻‍♂️

@Alison *********

as a british citizen, you DO NOT have to buy a "visa-on-arrival". You are elegible for the "visa-exemption" and thus will receive a simple STAY PERMIT for 60 days, if you enter without a visa

@Nongnuch *******

yes I got 30 day I came in March

@Alison *********

the visa-exemption went from 30 to 60 days by July 15th, 2024

@Ne **********

AGAIN: a citizen of the U.K. does NOT have to buy a "visa-on-arrival". Only citizens of certain countries need to buy a VOA . .here is the list:

@Ne **********

he has a 90-days Non-Imm-O visa and so he doesn't need an onward travel proof. You only need an onward travel proof when you want to enter Thailand visa-exempt. With a "visa-on-arrival" you will only get stamped in for 15 days, and the airline wants to see a proof of onward travel within these 15 days. If you travel without a visa and are a citizen of the 93 countries elegible for "visa-exempt", you will get stamped in for 60 days, and the airline might want to see onward travel proof within these 60 days

@Luit ****************

Some embassies/consulates issues -as an example the in Norwegian Thai embassy- Tourist visa without any onward ticket at all and some altså with onward ticket within 90 days. The formal requirements anyway is an onward ticket within the initial days you get stamped in for in the immigration.

@Jan *****************

If an embassy thinks it is not necessary to check this for applying visa, it is op to them, but that does not reroute this check to the airline. With a valid visa and passport, airline checks are complete.

Immigration might do all kind of checks

@Luit ****************

an airline can and still controls if the passengers fulfill the requirements in their visa.

@Sue *********

Onward ticket are a formal requirement for tourist entries, rarely checked in the immigration but they ask from time to time. Because it’s a formal requirement and the airlines can be fined and responsible for the passengers return if formal requirements aren’t fulfilled they normally will be more strict regarding this requirement. But the point here was requirements and e-visa.

@Bobby ******

It’s ‘electronic’. It’s stored in your passport. Where did the pdf come from?

And yes, some airline desks can’t see an electronic visa.

@Ralph ******

you have no idea what you’re talking about. Nothing is stored in your passport with regards to Thai visas

@Bobby ******

Why does it have a chip? But yes, perhaps it’s not stored there.

And yes, I do know what I’m talking about. I have an electronic visa; airline desks in Bangkok can’t see it. Every time I try to fly home they get difficult about my visa.

@Ralph ******

nothing is stored on the chip in your passport with regards to your Thai visa. Electronic visa means it’s not a physical stamp in your passport. It’s stored in the computer system but not on the chip in your passport

@Bobby ******

why when you get a new passport you have to get your visa shifted to it?I was with someone who carried his old passport with him as he had not had his new passport updated.

@Max *******

computer records need to be updated.

@Bobby ******

your new passport should be linked to computer records.A persons name should be the connection.

@Bobby ******

Yes, I can believe that. It could be why I always get problems.

@Bonnie ********

🤣🤣🤣