I will be flying in the next couple of months to Thailand (Bangkok)on a non-O single entry visa with my Thai wife from Ireland, and was wondering do we have to take a chartered flight or can we take a scheduled one? Sorry in advance if this has been discussed already.

The simple answer to your question is that you will almost certainly enter Thailand on a "semi commercial" flight with an airline permitted to carry passengers into Thailand.

However, there is a lot more involved than just having a visa and a flight booking. Look for threads in this forum on the COE (Certificate of Entry) process. You will need a hotel booking (known as ASQ, "Alternative State Quarantine"), Covid-19 insurance, and both a Covid-19 test showing you are infection free and a Fit to Fly certificate. The full process is not suitable for a short post, and would just duplicate information available in other threads. In summary, it is expensive and involves 15-day quarantine on arrival in Thailand, but is doable.

You can find info here on the London embassy website where you will apply for your certificate of entry (COE).

https://london.thaiembassy.org/en/publicservice/application-for-certificate-of-entry-to-thailand-for-non-thai-nationa?page=5d6636cd15e39c3bd00072dd&menu=5f4b6eb3f6ae4b236972c562

Semi commercial flight listing.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ijBJOTgFJPAuWUfkPIA60iniXB9j9Ba2XHafXzA6JCw/edit#gid=1507041608

 

12 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

You can find info here on the London embassy website where you will apply for your certificate of entry (COE).

https://london.thaiembassy.org/en/publicservice/application-for-certificate-of-entry-to-thailand-for-non-thai-nationa?page=5d6636cd15e39c3bd00072dd&menu=5f4b6eb3f6ae4b236972c562

Ethiad is on the list. Happy days! My Thai wife won't need a transit visa. Thanks for your help.

5 hours ago, treetops said:

Semi commercial flight listing.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ijBJOTgFJPAuWUfkPIA60iniXB9j9Ba2XHafXzA6JCw/edit#gid=1507041608

 

That's an interesting list, many thanks for sharing.  But it does seem at odds with the list of approved airlines quoted on the UK Thai Embassy website.  I see from the quoted list above that Finnair and Turkish are flying to BKK and would provide options for UK based travellers especially now that Emirates, Etihad, Qatar and Oman are all "red-listed" by UK., but are not on the list.  Also no mention of EVA's flight LHR-BKK.

42 minutes ago, jonzboy said:

That's an interesting list, many thanks for sharing.  But it does seem at odds with the list of approved airlines quoted on the UK Thai Embassy website.  I see from the quoted list above that Finnair and Turkish are flying to BKK and would provide options for UK based travellers especially now that Emirates, Etihad, Qatar and Oman are all "red-listed" by UK., but are not on the list.  Also no mention of EVA's flight LHR-BKK.

I don't think the embassy list is kept up to date and pretty sure EVA stopped their weekly flight some months ago.

Edited March 17, 20215 yr by treetops

9 hours ago, treetops said:

I don't think the embassy list is kept up to date and pretty sure EVA stopped their weekly flight some months ago.

It show that was updated on March 16th.

Scroll to the right on the page and you will see this.

"EVA Air has suspended all transit services via TAIWAN staring from 1st January 2021."

5 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

It show that was updated on March 16th.

Scroll to the right on the page and you will see this.

"EVA Air has suspended all transit services via TAIWAN staring from 1st January 2021."

I think you mean the semi-commercial flight listing page was updated on March 16th.  The embassy page listing airlines referred to by jonzboy is here and is dated 22 Aug 2020, although I think that may be a creation date rather than a last update.

https://london.thaiembassy.org/en/publicservice/application-for-certificate-of-entry-to-thailand-for-non-thai-nationa

The EVA air flight from LHR-BKK never transited in Taiwan.  It looks like it last flew ex LHR on 12/12/20.

20 minutes ago, treetops said:

I think you mean the semi-commercial flight listing page was updated on March 16th. 

That is what I quoted.

4 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

That is what I quoted.

In reply to my post about the embassy list.

Are we agreed the embassy list appears not to be kept up to date which was the initial cause of confusion?

4 minutes ago, treetops said:

Are we agreed the embassy list appears not to be kept up to date which was the initial cause of confusion?

It appears not to be up to date but it not the only source of info. I think if person wanted to fly on EVA they would find out when they tried to reserve it.

2 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

It appears not to be up to date but it not the only source of info. I think if person wanted to fly on EVA they would find out when they tried to reserve it.

My bad.  I was looking for flights in June and EVA are happily taking bookings for the usual pre-covid daily  flight LHR-BKK-TPE.  A further check reveals that there are no flights available until 1st June.  I'm not confident that EVA can get the volume of passengers to justify this schedule.