Airfare Surge: Bangkok–London Economy Reaches 70,000 Baht

9 hours ago, JamesPhuket10 said:

But the passengers in question are not flying the route you quoted, they are starting their return journey in Bangkok to Europe, I know of someone struggling to buy a ticket from Bangkok to Frankfurt, their return ticket should have been on the 10th March via the middle east.

Even if they stay one month extra in their house in Thailand they will still have to pay 55k baht for a single flight in tourist class.

But there are lots of tickets selling for 19k baht, but that is via the middle east 😀

One does not have to fly to Europe via the middle east. The mainland Chinese airlines have lots of flights. EVA, Asiana, Korean, China Airlines, Air Canada, JAL, ANA, Thai all offer affordable options that go via North Asia or the polar route.Why aren't any of the European carriers an option? BA, LH, AF, KLM, OY, SR T I have flown the ZRH-BKK route with Swiss, and CDG-BKK with AF, AMS-BKK with KLM. I will probably do BKK-VIE with Austrian this summer. There is no obligation to travel on a middle eastern airline or through the middle east.

My return flight with Emirates in May for 27,000 baht is pretty screwed now so nothing to do except wait and hope.

5 hours ago, Chongalulu said:

So it’s TACO WHATEVER he does??? In fact when he wanted to strike around 2 weeks ago Nettenyahu persuaded him to hold off. Heads I win tails you lose eh?

Another talent the proven coward has is wasting an incredible number of people's time.

22 hours ago, BritManToo said:

I understand trading markets are driven by greed, and not on the basis of fair profit. But sadly the western world is now ruled by greed, and I would prefer a world with a little more fairness in it, and the opportunity for the downtrodden citizens to get a better deal.

Says you. who chooses to live in a gated community , where the downtrodden people have no access to

2 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

Says you. who chooses to live in a gated community , where the downtrodden people have no access to

Not my choice,

The only place my misses could get a 90% mortgage.

Didn't want to live in a condo.

4 hours ago, trucking said:

My return flight with Emirates in May for 27,000 baht is pretty screwed now so nothing to do except wait and hope.

Dont Panic yet. May is in two months, and today 70 planes have already left Dubai airport since midnight.

2 hours ago, Chalong circle said:

Dont Panic yet. May is in two months, and today 70 planes have already left Dubai airport since midnight.

Of course leaving Dubai is one thing, flying to Dubai is quite another. Given that most passengers on Bangkok to Europe flights via Dubai just transit Dubai, I wonder if it’s possible for Emirates to replace those flights with direct to Europe routes. I’m sure an A380 has the range. I’m booked on Emirates from Bangkok to Rome via Dubai on 4 June. If I were smart I’d book another flight on a direct route, but I hate the idea of booking a flight that I don’t intend to use, it’s not the money, just doesn’t seem the right thing to do.

17 hours ago, treetops said:

Still costing them no doubt but two of them have been running, as the BKK-HKG-BKK flights have continued and the DXB-BKK flight that continues on to SIA or DAD has operated yesterday and today.

Emirates were also operating HKG to DBX last night. Maybe they've got better insurance.

On 3/6/2026 at 6:58 AM, SamSpade said:

Have flown with Qatar many times & can usually score a Business class round trip for about this price max 110K.

For approx. the same price I've flown Eva & Gulf Air which are great airlines, I used to fly Finnair a lot but since the war in Ukraine started their BKK-HEL flights miss their 1 connecting flight to MAN so it can take > 30 hours!!!

Also used to fly Turkish/Emirates a lot but nowadays you're looking at >130K, too rich for my blood.

Thanks for the info, I have been flying with Eva for many years now but if the business class return trip form Bangkok to London for only 119k baht with Qatar then I will look at them when I go back to the UK next ( a couple of years from now), that is very cheap, is it the same as Eva Air with a two metre long bed and great food, champagne etc in business class?

On 3/6/2026 at 6:51 PM, NanLaew said:

Maybe they've got better insurance

Or perhaps they've got 'assurance'. The price of oil dropped faster than it rose, which is a better indicator of what's really going on than the propaganda being fed to us by the media.

On 3/4/2026 at 7:31 PM, Ralf001 said:

these 80k flights are direct, looks be quite a few available for less than half..... when I select the 9th of march to fly one way.

Direct flights are usually more expensive. It's not really a good comparison as most flights have at least one stop-over.

I don't know the situation now but before Covid there were 3 airlines doing direct flights. EVA, British Airways and Thai Arways.

I need to go to the UK myself in July and I use Gulf Air as I have frequent flyer status. I'm just hoping things sort out before then.

On 3/6/2026 at 10:02 AM, Patong2021 said:

One does not have to fly to Europe via the middle east. The mainland Chinese airlines have lots of flights. EVA, Asiana, Korean, China Airlines, Air Canada, JAL, ANA, Thai all offer affordable options that go via North Asia or the polar route.Why aren't any of the European carriers an option? BA, LH, AF, KLM, OY, SR T I have flown the ZRH-BKK route with Swiss, and CDG-BKK with AF, AMS-BKK with KLM. I will probably do BKK-VIE with Austrian this summer. There is no obligation to travel on a middle eastern airline or through the middle east.

I use the Middle East as it's roughly an even split going to the UK. I normally use Gulf Air as I have frequent flyer status with them, but I've used Emirates, Qatar and Etihad previously. I have a bad back from an accident years ago, although it seems to have been less of a problem in recent years.

I did fly Austrian a couple of years back but that was business class. Swiss BKK-ZRH-LHR and LHR-VIE-DEL-BKK. The DEL-BKK leg was with Thai. To be honest I can't even remember Vienna airport.

14 hours ago, kimamey said:

Direct flights are usually more expensive. It's not really a good comparison as most flights have at least one stop-over.

I don't know the situation now but before Covid there were 3 airlines doing direct flights. EVA, British Airways and Thai Arways.

I need to go to the UK myself in July and I use Gulf Air as I have frequent flyer status. I'm just hoping things sort out before then.

There's also one company (forgot their name) doing one direct flight per week each way between Suvarnabhumi and Manchester.

I booked with EVA this week for June and the price was unchanged from last year, B33000.

I will be expecting to pay a substantial 'fuel surcharge' at some point.

That's understandable no problem.

3 minutes ago, TorquayFan said:

I booked with EVA this week for June and the price was unchanged from last year, B33000.

I will be expecting to pay a substantial 'fuel surcharge' at some point.

That's understandable no problem.

Did you book direct with EVA or use another website as that price looks very cheap and I'm currently looking at buying tickets to UK?

Hi. To clarify, I booked with EVA air direct, (evaair.com)

(EVA fly direct to LHR). 🙂

On 3/4/2026 at 6:19 PM, SamSpade said:

I've got a return BKK-DOH-MAN flight booked for an 8 week trip to the UK from 28th March with Qatar (paid 86,000 for Business Class) so since the weekend have been looking at alternative flights that avoid the middle east & the cheapest Business Class I could find (Mixture of Thai & Turkish) was approx 235,000, cheapest economy ticket (IIRC it was with KLM) was 67,200.

If my flights do get cancelled I will see if I can get Qatar to book me on an alternative carrier (my dates are pretty fixed & the option of pushing them back 2 weeks doesn't work for me), if not I'll take a refund (or vouchers) & change my trip to September.

I can't really afford (as in time rather than money) to delay things any longer hoping Qatar will be flying on the 28th so I've cancelled it and booked Hainan via PEK...

Cost me approx 11K THB more (a lot of airlines we're asking approx 250K which is 3x what I'd paid for my original ticket), outbound leg is 7 hours longer & I'm flying with (IMHO) a substandard airline compared to Qatar but at least I'll get back to see my family as planned.

I don't know if this will still help, but my sister and brother-in-law were visiting and their flights through Doha were cancelled. Flights out of Bangkok were insane, so we booked a flight from Taipei through Chiang Mai using a regional carrier to Taiwan. Sure they had to pick up their baggage and go through immigration in Taiwan, but their one-way tickets to DC were 16000 baht plus 3k for the regional carrier. This was 9 days ago so it may have changed, but looking for slightly alternative routes and not completely direct might save you a bunch of money.

On 3/6/2026 at 11:20 AM, trucking said:

My return flight with Emirates in May for 27,000 baht is pretty screwed now so nothing to do except wait and hope.

Don't worry about the war affecting airfare prices because the "stable genius" has "a plan".....

Trump would not confirm a report by the Axios news outlet that he was considering an occupation or blockade of Iran’s Kharg Island oil hub to pressure Tehran to reopen the strait.

“I may have a plan or I may not,” Trump said when asked by an AFP reporter.

Don't y'all love it!!

6 minutes ago, xylophone said:

“I may have a plan or I may not,” Trump said when asked by an AFP reporter.

Don't y'all love it!!

All depends on the last person he spoke to.

2days ago bought roundtrip stavanger norway bangkok 2.6/6.7.26 klm, thb 35.000.

12 kg carry on.

Think ok :-)

This is outrageous! Even though Thailand has the finest wh*res in the world, the high ticket price offsets the dirt cheap prices street walkers charge. Now old white men will be forced to travel Hungary, which is fine in Summer. But in winter, think of the havoc on our arthritis?

7 hours ago, 1tooth said:

This is outrageous! Even though Thailand has the finest wh*res in the world, the high ticket price offsets the dirt cheap prices street walkers charge. Now old white men will be forced to travel Hungary, which is fine in Summer. But in winter, think of the havoc on our arthritis?

Bit unfair on Hungary, ol'man....

British Airways direct to Gatwick then connection to Glasgow.

Return 57000 baht.