I'm flying into Chiang Mai airport next week. I'm just in town to sort out a Chinese Visa, then taking the bus to Laos. Probably less than a week - So I haven't sorted out a Thai Visa.

But - with all the stringency around visas and entry stamps right now - will I be ok? Will anyone expect to see an outbound flight ticket?

I'm flying AirAsia. UK passport. Last in Thailand about six months ago.

Yes, at check-in for your flight into Thailand the airline will want to see either a Thai visa or an outbound ticket.

Thai immigration won't care though.

Some people have reported success getting on the flight after some major hassle, signing some documents that they understand they may be turned away, etc.

never been asked for an onward / outbound ticket. Fly into Chiang Mai on international flights at least eight times a year.

I should have mentioned that I'll be flying from Kuala Lumpur.

I've never been asked when I've flown before. Anyone made this flight recently, on a one-way ticket?

The airline can apparently be fined up to $10,000usd by whatever authority in the destination country, if allowing an undocumented passenger to fly on a one-way ticket. So you may get hassled at check-in or you may not and chances are slim that you would be queried at Thai - immigration.

This is just my experience since I was once denied passage from Vancouver to Bangkok and then given the whole yap to why. Without a valid document,specific visa et... you will have trouble IF Air Asia exercises this policy.

Generally flying within Asia on a one-way tix seems to be 'business as usual' - Good Luck

never been asked for an onward / outbound ticket. Fly into Chiang Mai on international flights at least eight times a year.

And those are one-way flights into Chiang Mai, not the return-leg of a return ticket, and you don't have any Thai visa?