Cheaper to fly return from Bangkok ?

[jackie]

BaaBaa

I flew with Eva Air. The flights in June are cheaper. I have booked with Eva Air for next April and paid £520. I know it is cheaper to stop over but I prefer to go direct.

[gaijin]

You can buy a one-way ticket with no visa, but you will not be allowed to board the flight to Thailand without proof of a ticket out. The ticket out does not have to be a return ticket to you point of departure. So say you are flying London to BKK, you could buy a one way ticket London to BKK and a one way ticket from BKK to Phon Penh. After you arrive in Bangkok, you can cancel your ticket out to PP and buy a discounted ticket in BKK back to London.

[STEVE G]

Not always, but generally one way airline tickets are outrageously expensive compared with returns. The exceptions tend to be with budget airlines like Oasis into Hong Kong, who will charge per leg at a reasonable price.

[Riversider]

Buying airline tickets in another country can be risky, the airline can refuse to accept the ticket. It comes under cross border ticketing, in the UK people buy AMS-LHR-BKK and don't use AMS-LHR sector. If spotted by the airline clerk they will not accept the ticket. Be very careful buying this sort of ticket.

[Randy Cornhole]

I always buy my return flight in Hua Hin and have a rough price guide (via the internet) I normally get an open ticket for 6 months as it varies how long I will have to spend in the land of shite (England) I normally pay about 500 pounds return wit ETIHAD and find it a good deal as they are (in my opinion) an excellent airline...

[Wanderlust]

Buying airline tickets in another country can be risky, the airline can refuse to accept the ticket. It comes under cross border ticketing, in the UK people buy AMS-LHR-BKK and don't use AMS-LHR sector. If spotted by the airline clerk they will not accept the ticket. Be very careful buying this sort of ticket.

Riversider,
You are partially correct in what you are saying, with your given example, but this is not what has been suggested. It is not at all risky to buy a return ticket originating in Bangkok to another destination if you are already in Thailand. Equally it is not at all risky buying a one way ticket from, say, the UK, to Bangkok, with another onward flight to, say, Kuala Lumpur and then obtaining a refund on the latter flight, so as to get around the need for a visa into Thailand. I know this because i have done both, and always buy a return flight from Thailand back to the UK. What is correct in earlier posts is that the airline will not allow anyone to board their flight on a one way ticket to Bangkok without either a visa or an onward ticket, even though the immigration officers at Bangkok never ask to see tickets normally.

[STEVE G]

Yes, what matters to the airline is the country the ticket is issued in or delivered to. You can buy a ticket for a flight in a country other than the departure point, but for the list price in the country you buy it in, which could be substantially different.
Of course you can buy a ticket at the departure point, or even pay for it in advance and pick it up at the airport for the local price.