@Chris ***********

Tell it as an example to this member on the site who explained some days ago that he was denied flight with KLM from UK with a one way ticket until he could prove he had a Non Immigrant visa and didn’t travel on visa exemption.

@Chris ***********

Ok, let’s say it’s just for some airlines because some particular airlines misunderstand the formal requirements for entering Thailand on visa exemption. So maybe you can pass on advice for members worldwide which airline people should use and which they should avoid in the future.

@Chris ***********

Onward ticket or round trip ticket is the same. Return ticket is something else.

@Chris ***********

The day you get denied check in with an airline regarding this, it’s no help that other airlines would accept you. BECAUSE AN ONWARD TICKET OR ROND TRIP TICKET IS STILL FORMALLY REQUIRED FOR USING THE VISA EXEMPTION SCHEME TO THAILAND.

@Chris ***********

Yes onward ticket to another destination is still required. Not a return ticket.

So that’s why you didn’t get it in the first place then. You misunderstood the meaning of onward VS return ticket.

If that’s your only recent travel history, you should be fine with another entry on visa exemption.

@Chris ***********

I know the regulations, you don’t know anything else than your own personal opinion and experience. Return ticket has never been mentioned. What’s still is required and you still obviously don’t understand is an onward ticket or a round trip to another destination.

@Chris ***********

Return tickets is never required, onwards tickets or round trip as stated. I both understand regulations and listen to personal experience. I’ve been travelling to Thailand several times myself on just an inbound ticket on visa exemption. Anyway for people with knowledge and experience is child learning that an onward ticket formally is required for visa exemption. That’s why I don’t find your personal experience relevant when I de facto know that -even people I personally know- are denied check in regarding this. The only reason why the airline would ask for an onward ticket is because they know it formally it’s required and they can be fined and responsible for return if formal requirements aren’t fulfilled. They obviously don’t just do it for their own sake. Onward ticket is rarely checked at the immigration unless you’ll get pulled aside for some other reason regarding your travel patterns. Then you formally have to be prepared to show funds, proof of accommodation and onward ticket.

At the end this is one of the stupidest discussion I ever had on this site with a person obviously without any more knowledge than his own experience who goes on personal attacks and gives others people different motives just for passing on well known information regarding immigration in Thailand.

@Chris ***********

This is VISA EXEMPTION. And answered directly from ministry of foreign affairs. There’s no general paragraph in the immigration act regarding the specific visas and visa exemption. You obviously have very poor knowledge of immigration to Thailand and just base things on your own experience.