I am often asked how cheap it is to fly to Thailand, where look for cheap tickets and so on. To not answer every time, I decided write a post about how I do it, then just to give a link. Nothing extraordinary, it’s very simple. For reference: I usually fly from Moscow, so it’s a little easier for me than for the residents other cities. By the way, I also wrote separately about how you can fly to Koh Samui from Moscow, because it’s not obvious to everyone right now, are asking.
The content of the article
- 1 How to fly cheap to Thailand
- 1.1 Ticket Search Engine
- 1.2 Reduction options
- 1.3 Prices
- 1.4 Return ticket
- 2 Cheapest tickets to Thailand
- 2.1 Last minute charters
- 2.2 Where to look for charters
- 2.3 Prices
- 3 How to buy a return ticket to Russia, while in Thailand
- 4 Supplement for those who do not live in Moscow
Contents
How to fly cheap to Thailand
The easiest way to fly to Thailand is to buy a ticket regular flights in advance, 2-3 months before trips. You can start monitoring the ticket search sites earlier, or what else they call aggregators, but it’s easier to subscribe for mailing offers. But remember, not always prices will be much lower if right in advance.
Ticket search engines
I always use 2 search engines, I do not see the point enjoy something else. There are no flights that they do not show. On such aggregators present offers from all airlines and ticket agencies. No extra charges. Below block with current ticket prices.
Ticket prices in Aviasales →
Prices for tickets to Skyscanner →
I really like this calendar from AviaSales. In fact you don’t need to look for anything yourself, just look at the right month and then we look at it on what dates it gives the most inexpensive flight. But this, of course, is convenient for those who can then under these dates. tune out.
Reduction options
- When you look for cheap tickets to Thailand, try compare prices for flights between different cities. I.e, look not only Moscow-Bangkok, but also Moscow-Phuket, can be even peter bangkok and peter phuket. But usually the cheapest tickets from Moscow and to Bangkok. Well, from the rest of Russia There are cheap tickets from Novosibirsk and Irkutsk. But do not forget about other cities, in addition to the capital, check just in case. Somehow I was looking for a ticket for a person and a good price came out of Irkutsk to Chiang Mai, and it’s cheaper than to fly to BKK, and then to Chiang Mai.
- It is probably clear to everyone where it is cheaper to fly from – Moscow But it would be more correct to say that it is not cheaper, but simpler: more choice, more airlines, more often comes across something cheap. But also from other large cities (Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Vladivostok) there are also tickets of about the same cost. But if talking about cheapness, then there will already be talk about burning charters that just buy it from Moscow (About charters below).
- You can also try to fly to another country, such as Malaysia. (Kuala Lumpur) and then on the local low-cost AirAsia.com fly already in Thailand. By the way, I advise you to subscribe to newsletter offers from AirAsia, come in handy.
- Always look for transfer flights. Most often they are cheaper than straight lines. Only the time of transplantation, too, do not forget to see that Do not spend the night somewhere.
- Try playing dates, plus or minus a couple of days, or a week and The price may be very different.
- If you buy a ticket immediately and back and forth, it will be cheaper than separately there and then back. But for those traveling for a long time and does not want to buy a return ticket, most likely not good, usually wintering do not know when they will fly home. there is tickets with an open date, but they are more expensive than regular ones.
- For the new year and during the peak season, the tickets are more expensive. (December January February). Therefore, in this period it is not worth too much. rely on cheap flights only if the action is any And back to the season (if you buy separately) usually more expensive than from Russia to Thailand.
- Always check the price on the airline’s website, all of a sudden there will be cheaper.
- A separate option is the airline Russia. They have tickets for ~ 6400 rubles one way in the direction of Moscow-Bangkok. Steep price for a direct flight. Tickets must be taken 14 hours before the flight. And generally speaking Once every 2-3 months, Russia throws out cheap tickets. It also has meaning to look to neighboring countries like Burma. Where is it again possible get to Tai on the same AirAsia.
I also want to mention separately that if you started monitoring tickets, it makes sense to subscribe to the direction you need and then you will periodically fall sentences by mail. This is very conveniently! Enough, a couple of weeks to pomonitorit and see what is the price will be, and then buy already. You can unsubscribe at any time or change flight direction.
Prices
There were already many flights, I will try to list. But we have to understand that prices change slightly every year. That dollar rate change, then there is no stock at all, just like that. Well, in the last time, I often sin by buying tickets 1-2 weeks before travel, so prices are higher.
- November 2018: Moscow-Bangkok-Moscow to Qatar with a transfer to Qatar for 32,000 rubles / person
- February 2018: Moscow-Bangkok-Moscow to Aeroflot direct flight beyond 22000 rub / person (the action was)
- January 2017: Moscow-Bangkok-Moscow to Aeroflot direct flight beyond 40500 rubles / person
- January 2016: Moscow-Bangkok-Moscow on Aerofolot without transplant for 45000 rubles / person
- December 2015: Moscow-Phuket-Moscow at Emirates with a transfer in Dubai for 36,000 rubles / person
- December 2013: Moscow-Bangkok on the regular Transaero into one side without transplant for 20,000 rubles / person
- December 2012: Bangkok-Moscow on S7 one way with transfer in Novosibirsk S7 for 15000 rubles / person
- November 2010: Moscow-Bangkok on EgyptAir one way with long transfer in Cairo for 12500 rub / person
How to fly cheap to Thailand
Return ticket
!!! Remember the need for a return ticket to Thailand if you do not have a tourist Thai visa.
Cheapest tickets to Thailand
Last minute charters
After leaving Transaero with charter tickets everything became much worse in terms of price. Aeroflot, Nord Wind, Royal Flight, Azur Air rarely give out really good prices. Russia has recently started flying There are sometimes cheap one-way tickets. But while most often Cheaper with a regular change, especially if you buy right away two-way ticket.
Remember the rule. Fly from Thailand on a charter can only be in In the event that also flew a charter. One time it’s nobody checked, but now with 2017 steel. Perhaps if the entry was by land (for example, after a vizaran), then this rule will not be act, but not a fact.
There is such a thing as last minute tickets for charter flights. Their plus – direct flight. And minus – you need to fly a couple of days after purchases. Of course, this is not suitable for everyone, since the departure can occur a couple of days after the purchase of the ticket (although it may be in a week) and tickets are generally easier to find for departure from Moscow. So, if you are not tied to a date, then this is your option, you can save (when compared with direct flights). And if you will fly charter back to main tourist masses (spring to Thailand, fall to Moscow), then the cost will be really very low, I came across prices 50-200 bucks one way.
Where to look for charters
The charter is primarily good because the cost of the ticket is cheaper, than on a similar flight, but not charter. And the second plus is straight flight for the price of a regular transfer (direct scheduled flight will be much more expensive). Search essentially in two places in mainly:
Exchange of burning tickets Tourdom →
Airways also shows charters →
At the stock exchange, I already bought tickets more than once. More precisely purchase did not occur on the stock exchange itself, because it’s just text ads from travel agencies (need to call the specified contacts). As an option, You can walk on the sites of travel agencies, they also have section “Last Minute Tickets”.
Prices
At prices it is now inconvenient to write, because almost always on the stock exchange everything is indicated in dollars, and the rate has changed since 2015 to almost 2 times. But at the same time, the price of tickets in dollars has decreased, and in rubles increased. That is, the tickets in rubles went up, but not twice, which is already good In this regard, I will write you the prices in rubles, so it will be clearer.
Examples of my flights on the charters below. True, always flew only one way and not really got at the same time on the cheapest options are rather average.
- May 2014, Phuket-Moscow at Transaero for 17,000 rubles / person
- September 2013, Moscow-Bangkok on Transaero 15,000 rubles / person
- April 2011, Bangkok-Moscow at Transaero, 12,500 rubles / person
I didn’t always buy the cheapest, because dates also played a role. Literally fresh – ticket Moscow-Phuket for 8 May 2017 for 3900 rubles. There were other dates within a month, but I just returned from Thailand. Eh – I want to cry from such prices, and why I never get them? 
That is, in general, such prices are rare, but they are not worth counting on.
Ticket Moscow-Phuket for 3900 rubles
Ticket from Thailand for 70 bucks
By the way, a burning ticket does not always happen with a departure in a couple of days. after the purchase. Last time I even managed to get a Thai visa in Moscow after buying a ticket.
Remember, if there are no burning tickets, then as an option, then watch last minute tours Their prices can be very low. Our friends once bought a similar tour to Pattaya for 20,000 rubles per person. it round-trip ticket, cheap hotel accommodation, free breakfast and transfer from the airport. In principle, for the price you can and only one way ticket to use from this set.
How to buy a return ticket to Russia, while in Thailand
With regular flights, everything is clear – wherever you are, the purchase takes place through a search engine on a bank card.
With charters, everything is different; they are sold by travel agencies. The sequence is as follows: monitor Turdom as soon as it appears. the necessary ticket contact by email or by phone (via Skype, so cheaper) travel agency, and ask how to pay for a ticket. Several options may offer:
- Go to a Thai bank and deposit money into an account that a travel agency there has. So faster, since the transfer from your bank in the Russian Federation to another bank can go several days, and the reservation is given on limited time (day).
- Go to a representative of this travel agency in Thailand and pay cash The problem is this – if you are far from tourist places (Phuket, Pattaya), then you may even have to go there.
- Ask relatives or friends in Moscow to drive to the office and pay your air ticket. Probably the easiest way.
- Transfer money from your account to an agency account, or even pay by card on their website. This is the most convenient and easiest way. finally thought of it. Once upon a time, no one at all offered in agencies.
Actually, the last method is the most successful. And even though I wrote, that the transfer can take a long time (and usually book for a day), but I think they can hold a reservation for you, since they offer it. I learned about it in 2013, because in 2011, when I wrote this article, something never came across an agency ready for the remote payment, and we had to go to the office in Phuket to give cash agency partners.
Supplement for those who do not live in Moscow
I want to add a little article, as I get questions from residents of other cities. Unfortunately, a lot of advice to you is not I can, as almost all of my departures from Moscow.
Most likely, you will not be able to count on very cheap tickets. have to. From most cities, flights will be more expensive than from Moscow, this applies to both regular flights and charter. Moreover, with the burning charters most likely it will be a disaster at all. In addition to Moscow, Turdom seldom skips tickets from Novosibirsk or Yekaterinburg. What pleases, before they were not in general, and now at least something is, a tendency in a good way. Now even a separate section on regions made – Turdom regions.
So the main rule – see departures from neighboring large cities, if you live in a small town. For example, somehow from Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk were very cheap tickets for regular flights from S7. They were even cheaper than from Moscow. Something around 10,000 round-trip. Therefore, the probability is cheap fly to Thailand is from Siberia, too. It is important to monitor tickets in aggregators, on airline companies’ websites, on Turdom, and to get here on such prices.
Cheap tickets to Phuket Ekaterinburg
It also makes sense to find travel agencies in your city, call them and find out if they have last minute tickets or tours. Sometimes even a tour It is so cheap that no regular flights are needed. True, the cost of the tour can be comparable to a single ticket, then You can easily score on a return ticket to stay in unpretentious hotel in Pattaya and for free breakfast, and immediately Arrive in Bangkok to go where you need.
P.S. Good luck to us all in finding cheap tickets to Thailand
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