Is a return ticket required from Canada to Thailand

[aussieoutcast]

On ‎10‎/‎1‎/‎2018 at 09:00, Bonkabit said:

I have been travelling two or three times a year for the last 18 years and have never been asked to show a return ticket by the airline or by Immigration in Thailand.

Yeah me either over the last 11 years, however this was the first time I actually didn't have a return ticket

[wildhorse]

Just an update.

i decided to purchase a cheap ticket for 1200 baht to siem reap, departing 28 days after arrival in Thailand. I got asked at YEG at my initial check in with Air Canada for a ticket leaving Thailand within the 30 days of arrival. I again got asked at the ANA check in at Vancouver and again was told I was ok because of the 30 day departure from Thailand.

I’m assuming that I wouldn’t have able to fly without the purchased departure flight.

[ricktoronto]

1 hour ago, wildhorse said:

Just an update.

i decided to purchase a cheap ticket for 1200 baht to siem reap, departing 28 days after arrival in Thailand. I got asked at YEG at my initial check in with Air Canada for a ticket leaving Thailand within the 30 days of arrival. I again got asked at the ANA check in at Vancouver and again was told I was ok because of the 30 day departure from Thailand.

I’m assuming that I wouldn’t have able to fly without the purchased departure flight.

If they asked you assume right. People think they will get static at Thai immigration when the airline is the entity at risk of fines and often having to accommodate immediate return. So the airline will be the first point of risk of refusal. Depends on how far you are going and if the connecting city has the same requirements. 

Don't buy the one way ticket to say Cambodia on the same carrier because they will then say OK fine, you are leaving Thailand in 30 days, but when are you leaving Cambodia (or any one way end point designed to get past the Thai 30 day rule)?