the price of air fares to Bangkok in the 60s, 70s, 80s,90s,

[peelpaul]

Hi Folks
I am interested to know what the price of air fares from the UK and everywhere in the past where.
I first travelled to Thailand from Manchester to Bangkok in 1999 and the fare was £700. I have just returned
and the fare was £550 can are readers recall what they paid in the past?

[Khundon1975]

Hi Folks
I am interested to know what the price of air fares from the UK and everywhere in the past where.
I first travelled to Thailand from Manchester to Bangkok in 1999 and the fare was £700. I have just returned
and the fare was £550 can are readers recall what they paid in the past?

peelpaul you need to refine your question a bit.

Cattle Class, Business Class, First Class, Direct or Stopover and which airline.

As for me, I paid too much on all my flights.

[Phyton]

Mid 80th:

FRA-BKK return eco nonstop with Thai Airways and Singapore Airlines 1800 DM till 2200 DM.

[jimk]

We didn't fly to Thailand in the 60s; we travelled overland. Only the wealthiest could afford long-haul flights in those days. and most of the tourists were elderly Americans with blue-haired wives. As I recall mass ''tourism'' started in the 1970s when Neckerman started flying planeloads of German men to Bangkok to find Thai wives to take back to the fatherland. I don't know what they paid, however. For either the flights or the wives.

[peelpaul]

sorry khundon. 1st time was with emirates,stop over in Dubai cattle class 1999 £700. September 2014 with Etihad stopover Abu Dhabi cattle class £550.

[arcadianagain]

As a travel agent in the 60`s and 70`s I remember economy fares to Sydney were well over a thousand pounds.

[Big Boy]

My first flights were late 80's on Aeroflot, which always cost low £500s, which was by far the cheapest I could find at the time.

Next was Philippine Airlines @ £560 in 1990.

After this point, the Middle East airlines came into the reckoning, and for years, and we used them all at various times costing around the £400 mark.

Around the 2000 point, Thai Inter came into the reckoning, and became very competitive with fare around the £400.

The best deal I ever picked up was 2 weeks including flights and a decent hotel for £324. That was when Thompson Holidays were making a failed attempt to break into the Thai holiday market - they had quite a few surplus holidays that had to be got rid of.

Around 2007/08 British Airways were doing some good deals, and we picked up flights on 2 occasions for £300 - in fact on our last 5 Thai holidays, 3 of us travelled for under £1000.

The most expensive deal was a last minute flight that cost well over £600, which was in 1997 with Emirates, and it included a HUGE stopover on the way home.

[JimmyGreaves]

January 1980 Economy - £285 Stopovers one way. Athens - Kuwait - Delhi- Bombay - Bangkok - Singapore - Perth.