14 hours ago, GypsyT said:

This doesn't make sense---

"Ticket out" is for getting out within visa free or visa time limit. Not at first entry!

Eh!

When entering VE, the airlines usually insist on proof of an outbound ticket within 30 days of the arrival date.

If you're arriving at SUV and denied entry, how could you use an outbound plane, train, or bus ticket from a different location.
You'd be stuck airside at SUV.

On 10/25/2023 at 7:13 PM, Red Phoenix said:

Simply ask for supervisor, when clueless airline staff wants to see an onward-flight reservation when checking in on your flight and you have a valid VISA.

Yes, go full Karen on the staff and demand to see a supervisor.

2 hours ago, Liquorice said:

No, it means unable to use that 'ticket' out, Emirates would have been responsible for returning him to his point of departure at their expense, hence they refused boarding.

 

I do not understand. The requirement is for an onward flight reservation out of Thailand within 30 days. It is entirely normal that this might leave from a different departure airport than the arrival one. If denied entry, you cannot use a flight reservation 30 days in the future whatever airport the flight leaves from.

 

In reality, any time you are denied entry, the airline that brought you to Thailand is responsible for your removal. That is irrespective of whether the airline was at fault. Asking "how will you get from Suvarnabhumi to Don Muang to use the onward flight ticket if denied entry" sounds like a joke.

4 hours ago, bbko said:

On 10/25/2023 at 7:13 PM, Red Phoenix said:

Simply ask for supervisor, when clueless airline staff wants to see an onward-flight reservation when checking in on your flight and you have a valid VISA.

Yes, go full Karen on the staff and demand to see a supervisor.

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Requesting to speak to a supervisor when you are pertinent that an onward-flight ticket is not required when entering Thailand, is not 'going full Karen'.  

The alternative is being denied boarding by the airline staff for a non-existing requirement.

Do read the post of @tao40 who - after talking with a more experienced airline staffer - was allowed to board without that not-required onward-flight reservation (unfortunately by that time his flight had already departed, but he was provided with a seat on the next flight).  

5 hours ago, Liquorice said:

Eh!

When entering VE, the airlines usually insist on proof of an outbound ticket within 30 days of the arrival date.

If you're arriving at SUV and denied entry, how could you use an outbound plane, train, or bus ticket from a different location.
You'd be stuck airside at SUV.

 

This is the part I don't get...if you bought the cheapest ex-BKK ticket just to satisfy the onward travel rule then how could you use it in the case of denied entry?

 

The el cheapo tickets are non-changeable so won't be of any use and a new ticket would have to be bought anyway. 

 

If EK got fined like your friend says then maybe it was Immigration taking the pish for a percentage kickback from the $10k penalty or whatever it is now 😉

16 hours ago, Lemsta69 said:

This is the part I don't get...if you bought the cheapest ex-BKK ticket just to satisfy the onward travel rule then how could you use it in the case of denied entry?

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When you bought a cheap throw-away ticket (or a flight-booking reservation), and you are denied entry on arrival at Suvarnabhumi, obviously you cannot use such ticket. 

The point of buying such onward-flight ticket is to avoid being denied entry for not having an outbound flight prior to the 30-day Permission to stay you will receive by Thai Immigration when arriving without a Visa.  Note that it is almost never actually checked by Thai immigration whether you have such outbound flight.  But it are the airlines from your departure point that often check whether you have such international outbound flight-reservation, because when you are denied entry FOR THAT REASON the airline will have to fly back to your departure at their cost.  

Of course you can be denied entry by Thai border-immigration for OTHER reasons than not being able to show an outbound-ticket reservation.

6 hours ago, Red Phoenix said:

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When you bought a cheap throw-away ticket (or a flight-booking reservation), and you are denied entry on arrival at Suvarnabhumi, obviously you cannot use such ticket. 

The point of buying such onward-flight ticket is to avoid being denied entry for not having an outbound flight prior to the 30-day Permission to stay you will receive by Thai Immigration when arriving without a Visa.  Note that it is almost never actually checked by Thai immigration whether you have such outbound flight.  But it are the airlines from your departure point that often check whether you have such international outbound flight-reservation, because when you are denied entry FOR THAT REASON the airline will have to fly back to your departure at their cost.  

Of course you can be denied entry by Thai border-immigration for OTHER reasons than not being able to show an outbound-ticket reservation.

 

Yes I'm aware of all that. I was responding to Liquorice's post about his friend who was allegedly rejected at check-in Stateside for an EK flight because his onward ticket was ex-DMK not ex-BKK.