Phuket Thailand

repeter · #1 19-03-2006, 04:18

My TGF has a 90 days visa for visiting me here in Sweden. Can I pay Thai Airways for the ticket online so she can pick it up in los or do I have so send her money so she can buy the ticket herself?
I meet a swedish man at BKK ariport who have lived 15 years in los, and he told me I must send money to her. I am afraid that her sisters elephant get sick or her mothers waterbuffalo.

The office that helped us with the visa can order a ticket for her but it cost 42500 bath. She is comming to Sweden at June 4.
Their website: http://www.swedenvisa.com/

repeter

Skorpionen · #2 19-03-2006, 04:45

Hi
check this company
http://www.olavi.com/
they can help you and they have very good service and
you can pay by creditcard, just make sure you bye a 6 month ticket so you can extend your girlfriends stay in sweden for 3 more more months.

good luck

eric-the-viking · #3 19-03-2006, 05:01

if paying by credit card ,i thought you had to be one of the people traveling and to be able to produce the card at check in?

Skorpionen · #4 19-03-2006, 05:13

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Originally Posted by eric-the-viking

if paying by credit card ,i thought you had to be one of the people traveling and to be able to produce the card at check in?

Hi Ian
yes, but only if it is a e-ticket, no problem with a old fashion paperticket.

repeter · #5 19-03-2006, 05:59

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Originally Posted by Skorpionen

Hi Ian
yes, but only if it is a e-ticket, no problem with a old fashion paperticket.

Thanks for your reply, but my question was; is there any airline with direct flights BKK - Sweden that I can buy e-tickets?

I have e-mailed Thai Airways, but have no reply so far. I have to wait to monday, I beleve.

repeter

Nicke · #6 19-03-2006, 11:23

Let her book with a reliable travel agency and issue a credit card authorization form and fax to them where you allow them to withdraw money and what amount, it should be acceptable as a lot of hotels do that.

scubamatt · #7 19-03-2006, 13:21

If you buy an eticket on line, then the card holder needs to be travelling, and the card needs to be shown at check in.
If you buy an eticket form an agent - and go in and sign the credit card slip, then the card holder does not have to be travelling.
As for which airlines have e-tickets to sweden, I do not know.
You could always buy from the airline reps in sweden, and get them to leave the ticket at their reps in Bangkok.

eric-the-viking · #8 20-03-2006, 03:18

try these
http://www.travellink.se/

stevem · #9 20-03-2006, 03:21

If you buy a ticket SO, which means Sold Outside of the departure country, you will pay a much higher fare.

Nicke · #10 20-03-2006, 03:27

Hi Matt,

It may be true but not entirely true, as I have booked flights for my gf and family members with AirAsia with my CC and they had no problem whatsoever to fly without showing my CC.

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Originally Posted by scubamatt

If you buy an eticket on line, then the card holder needs to be travelling, and the card needs to be shown at check in.
If you buy an eticket form an agent - and go in and sign the credit card slip, then the card holder does not have to be travelling.
As for which airlines have e-tickets to sweden, I do not know.
You could always buy from the airline reps in sweden, and get them to leave the ticket at their reps in Bangkok.

Frode10 · #11 20-03-2006, 04:38

You could ask your gf what travel-agency she will use, and then search the net for an e-ticket yourself. Make sure it's a direct flight BKK - Stockholm. If you can not find this you should at least make sure she will change planes in a Schengen-country, because she only has a visa for this area. Then you can find the right times and price.

Make a copy of the flight-numbers, time-table and price, email her the information and tell her to take it with her to the travel-agency. Then they can book the flights for her, and they can help her with the travel-insurance too, if you have not fixed this already. Make sure to get the telephone-number to the travel-agency so you can call them yourself if you have some questions or problems. I asked the travel-agency if it was possible to pay with my credit-card and they said no, so I had to send money to her. But I guess it would be possible to transfere the money to the agency's bank-account, but I didn't do that myself.

SAS and Thai have e-ticket's and direct flight's, BKK - Stockholm.

Frode

dizbuster · #12 20-03-2006, 04:44

Here is a link to a Thailand based Travel Agency...

http://www.southsiam.net/

Maybe you can contact them and see what they suggest as they should know all the information you are looking for.

Good luck

LivinLOS · #13 20-03-2006, 10:08

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Originally Posted by Frode10

You could ask your gf what travel-agency she will use, and then search the net for an e-ticket yourself. Make sure it's a direct flight BKK - Stockholm. If you can not find this you should at least make sure she will change planes in a Schengen-country, because she only has a visa for this area. Then you can find the right times and price.

Make a copy of the flight-numbers, time-table and price, email her the information and tell her to take it with her to the travel-agency. Then they can book the flights for her, and they can help her with the travel-insurance too, if you have not fixed this already. Make sure to get the telephone-number to the travel-agency so you can call them yourself if you have some questions or problems. I asked the travel-agency if it was possible to pay with my credit-card and they said no, so I had to send money to her. But I guess it would be possible to transfere the money to the agency's bank-account, but I didn't do that myself.

SAS and Thai have e-ticket's and direct flight's, BKK - Stockholm.

Frode

Direct flight doesnt matter from a visa perspective.. You dont clear customs or immigration while staying in the airport transfer zone.

Bobby · #14 20-03-2006, 16:41

Just go to a travel agent and book a paper ticket for her (be carefull with the spelling of her name as it must be exactly the same that the one stated on her passport). You can then send it to her using any express delivery company.
If her intentions are bad (ex. sick buffalo) it will be not so easy for her to be refunded from the paper ticket, especially if it's issued in Sweden.

Frode10 · #15 20-03-2006, 21:39

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Originally Posted by LivinLOS

Direct flight doesnt matter from a visa perspective.. You dont clear customs or immigration while staying in the airport transfer zone.

My wife got a ticket from the local travel-agency in Kalasin. This flight was from BKK - London - Norway. I thought everything was ok, until I understood that she had to go from Heathrow airport to Stansted airport in London, and get the last distance to Norway from there.

Heathrow is a big airport, but I think the transfer zone ends before Stansted.

She came to Norway this first time alone, and I don't think she would be very happy if she had to leave Heathrow and get to the other side of London by herself. Especially without a visa to the UK.

Anyway, I called the travel-agency and changed her ticket so she could fly BKK - Copenhagen - Bergen, we don't have direct flights from BKK to Norway.

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Frode10 · #16 20-03-2006, 22:04

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Originally Posted by LivinLOS

Direct flight doesnt matter from a visa perspective.. You dont clear customs or immigration while staying in the airport transfer zone.

BTW, for a few years ago I was going from Cancun in Mexico to Norway, and I had to go to Memphis in the US before getting on a flight to Europe. I was sure that I didn't have to clear custom or immigration while staying in the airport, but I was wrong. Had to do it all, and could even leave the airport if I wanted. I had not been visiting Memphis before so I left the airport and took a walk outside when I was waiting for my flight to Amsterdam.

I don't know why it was like this, but I think when a TG is going for her first trip out of the country it is good to be prepared for anything. Not easy for her to call you from her prepaid thai-phone if she has problems in an airport on her way to you.

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LivinLOS · #17 20-03-2006, 22:41

Yes thats different of course.. That requires clearing immigration though I understand you can get transit visa's pretty easy..

LivinLOS · #18 20-03-2006, 22:43

There must be a term for this immigration or transit changes..

I must admit I have never cleared customs in any indirect flight unless at my destination airport to get a local connecting domestic. Always been in trasit lounges.

Frode10 · #19 20-03-2006, 23:01

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Originally Posted by LivinLOS

I must admit I have never cleared customs in any indirect flight unless at my destination airport to get a local connecting domestic. Always been in trasit lounges.

Me too, until the day they said;

Today we do it differently!

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gregor200 · #20 21-03-2006, 19:09

You can go Bangkok via Frankfurt to Oslo. In Frankfurt you get the stamp on your visa (Schengen) and you leave transit area. You can stay in Terminal B. Thai Air arrives at Terminal B and Lufthansa/SAS to Oslo leaves at Terminal B too. She do not need to fillout any papers in Frankfurt, just show her passport.

One case was a flight from ChiangMai via Bangkok, Frankfurt to Oslo. The baggage was dispatched directly from ChiangMai to Oslo. But she had to get the boarding pass from Frankfurt to Oslo in Frankfurt at Lufthansa.

We checked in together in ChiangMai. She had to fill out a paper there, which looked like the tourist visa paper, i had to do when i arrived in Thailand. Nobody wanted to see any return ticket. She had her eTicket with her. People at ChiangMai airport were very polite. Some boy at checkin helped her to fillout the visa form at the checkin gate. He asked her if she could buy cigarettes for him at duty free, and gave her money for it.

Captain · #21 21-03-2006, 20:06

Not sure Gregor. Are you sure that FRA-Oslo leaves from terminal B? I think Lufthansa intra Schengen leaves from terminal A, you the one you have to pass through that tunnel. Schengen countries you have to pass immighation in the first airport/port where you enter the Schengen countries. That means leaving the plane ex BKK, at the exit of the plane police/immigration does a preliminary check of passport and visum, then you pass immigration in terminal B, customs, elevator downstairs, the multicoloured tunnel to terminal A, elevator, terminal A.
That is what I have done the last 6 years at least. Sweden is EU, so Schengen. Switserland, Norway are not EU, so ther it may be different.

gregor200 · #22 22-03-2006, 19:12

I used it end of February. The morning flight from FRA to OSL was leaving about 9:30 at Terminal B, but in the Schengen Area. So when you arrive with Thai air in the morning, you can just take this flight. Same Terminal. You have just to go downstairs after immigration.

Norway and Sweden are not EC member, but apply the same Schengen rules for transit and stay. So with a longterm visa for Sweden you can go to any European country for a maximum stay of 3 month within the same country as tourist. If Sweden were a member of the EU, it would use the EURO as currency and have to support the hidden deficits of Italy, Greece, Spain and the other southern regions.

gregor200 · #23 22-03-2006, 19:23

you can compare the prices from Lufthansa with Thai-Air. There are special offers at

http://www.lufthansa.com/online/port...l=1&c=198&l=en

eg. 35500 Baht to go from Bangkok to Sweden or Norway on a 3 month basis

Frode10 · #24 22-03-2006, 19:52

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Originally Posted by gregor200

Norway and Sweden are not EC member, but apply the same Schengen rules for transit and stay. So with a longterm visa for Sweden you can go to any European country for a maximum stay of 3 month within the same country as tourist. If Sweden were a member of the EU, it would use the EURO as currency and have to support the hidden deficits of Italy, Greece, Spain and the other southern regions.

Not a big issue,
but Sweden is a member of the EU, Norway is not, and as you say both countries apply to the same Schengen rules for transit and stay.

Even if a country is a member of the EU, they are not required to have Euro as their currency, they only have to make a system so people can use the euro if they want. The different countries in Europe have had votes about the question if they wanted to change their currency to Euro, and like Denmark (Krone), Sweden (Krone) and England (Pound), some of them didn't want to change.

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