Where to find cheapest outbound flight ticket?

[Henrik2000]

Hello,

• How can I find the cheapest one-way ticket out of Thailand for January 2023?
• Are there certain routes, dates, keywords or airlines to search for?
• Any other tricks? (Will make sure to book without any luggage.)

Backgrounds:

I'm having trouble finding the cheapest outbound one-way flight. Air Asia's site partly doesn't even react to my queries. Are there other cheapo companies than Air Asia (only aware of Nok)?

To apply online at the Thai embassy for a 60-days-tourist-visa, I need to upload an exit flight ticket (i already have a one-way inbound ticket). So I want to buy online the cheapest outbound ticket available and will not use it, because my real exit ticket I will only buy later within Thailand.

• Note: I do not want to buy any "fake", "tricky" exit ticket (no "borrowed" outbound tickets for 12 Euro or somesuch).

 

Thanks for all useful tips!

 

Edited October 10, 2022 by Henrik2000

[e11bkk]

I am about to use this for another country https://onwardticket.com since I don't know my length of stay.

The BEST way you can find your outbound is go into Google Flights, type in BKK for Origin and in destination type 'Asia' and then sort by price and say you're flexible for the month you need.

Edited October 10, 2022 by e11bkk

[Sloracer]

I bought one to KL, it was around au$85. Air Asia.

[SkippyRoo]

IMHO you would be best looking at KL, Singapore or Hong Kong as hubs...might even be able to re schedule for later when you need to use it 

Skippy

[davidge]

When I’ve looked I’ve usually found flights to Singapore for about £40.

Edit:

 

Around US$45-50 on Air Asia website.

[Henrik2000]

Hi all, thanks for all suggestions! Now as suggested, i did some price comparisons on Google Flights and Skyscanner for 1 specific day. Invariably, Air Asia is cheapest - Vietjet, Skoot and Nok always more expensive (at least when looking at those comparison sites).

Surprised that Chiang Mai and Hat Yai have no cheap hops across the borders.

The cheapest thing seemed to be Air Asia's earlybird Bkk - Phnom Penh for 30 Euro (about 1100 THB, not yet tried to actually book).

If interested, here's my research priced in Euro (1:36):

Flights acc. to Google Flights: 

Phuket – KUL Air Asia 39 Euro

Phuket – Sing  Air Asia 33 (54 on Skyscanner)

Hat Yai – south (nothing cheap)

Chiang Mai (nothing cheap)

Bkk – Sing Air Asia 44

Bkk – HKG Air Asia 80

Bkk – PNH Air Asia 30 (32 on Skyscanner)

Bkk – HCMC Air Asia 39

Bkk – Vientiane Air Asia 41

[Horndog85]

Compare also prices at traveloka.

I found some good prices there for Asia.

Edit: you can also pay at seven eleven with traveloka.

Edited October 10, 2022 by Horndog85

[BuckDefiant]

8 hours ago, Henrik2000 said:

The cheapest thing seemed to be Air Asia's earlybird Bkk - Phnom Penh for 30 Euro (about 1100 THB, not yet tried to actually book).

^^^This. I'm sitting on one now as they canceled the original flight and allowed a free change so I moved it out a month.  

Dunno, maybe I'll actually take the flight. 

 (Thai) Air Asia website is as user hostile as any website I've used in recent memory. I ended up buying the ticket through Expedia, which seems to have a special relationship with Air Asia.

[Henrik2000]

8 hours ago, BuckDefiant said:

(Thai) Air Asia website is as user hostile as any website I've used in recent memory. I ended up buying the ticket through Expedia, which seems to have a special relationship with Air Asia.

Thanks for that hint! Air Asia was very tricky indeed and refused 2 different credit cards of mine (which had just been successfully used on the same computer). Went to Expedia - as per your recommendation - and booked the flight on Expedia without any trouble, using the same credit card that Air Asia wouldn't swallow. It was worth the the 100-THB-price hike from Air Asia itself to Expedia.

(That flight is early morning out of DMK - not very convenient...)

[semi-retired member]

On 10/10/2022 at 18:51, Henrik2000 said:

Surprised that Chiang Mai and Hat Yai have no cheap hops across the borders.

Chiang Mai (nothing cheap)

International-flights from Chiang Mai have barely resumed yet, post-Covid.  We used to have routes to some 20 other places, but currently only Scoot (daily to SIN), Air Asia (not-yet daily to KUL), and Korean/Jeju-Air (almost-daily, between the two of them, to ICN).

I doubt that we'll ever see Qatar direct to DOH, or Cathay to HKG, back here (I live in CM) again.

Domestic-routes are doing OK however, and that's a start !

[Henrik2000]

3 hours ago, semi-retired member said:

International-flights from Chiang Mai have barely resumed yet, post-Covid.

Ok, thanks for the update.

[mamriet]

Thx for the info!