Isn't the issue with all those onward ticket sites that they don't generate a PAID ticket reservation with an e-ticket number? All they generate is an unpaid reservation that gives a PNR code but you could do that yourself by using any airline that offers a hold your price service for a few days.

Tod, you are the most important resource on the Thai visa groups for quality information. You're the Richard Barrow for visa advice. Thank you for your efforts!

@Duncan ******

that only gives him 30+30, not enough for his desired stay.

Thanks for the heads up for those of us who registered before to report stays in our own homes who wouldn't otherwise notice until the next time returning to Thailand from a trip.

@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.

@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.

@Justin ****

I thought they WERE real tickets, just ones that automatically get cancelled after some time, so during the period of validity, they are completely valid ticket bookings.

@Jo *********

interesting I've done it many times this year including four times in the past three months to go to separately bought Bangkok Airways flights to Samui, coming from separately bought flights on Cathay Pacific, Hong Kong Airlines, HK Express and Thai Airways. Yes, I recall they asked to see my last boarding pass too but always accepted the home printout of the Bangkok Airways boarding pass. Logically there is no reason they wouldn't let you since all it is is a shortcut to the Immigration Passport Control in the transit area so you don't have to go through the main immigration queue. Interesting that your experience has been different. I assume you didn't have checked baggage?

I assume you mean for separately bought tickets, rather than a connecting flight on the same PNR code. The issue is more one of interlined luggage where the checked uggage needs to check through to your ultimate destination. Otherwise, I find that if you only have carry-ons and you check in online for the second flight and print a boarding pass on paper and show it at the transit immigration area, they've always let me through without any questions.

Now that you've clarified that they are capsules, similar to fish oil or other liquid-filled capsules, from my experience, those are no problem in your carry-on and don't count as liquids.