Thread: AA NON-REV Travel from USA to Bangkok and Pnom Penh via Hong Kong Questions

Originally Posted by bpadar

I'm wanting to travel as a D1 non-rev with AA. I'm planning to visit a friend for 1 week in BKK (Thailand) and another friend in PNH (Cambodia) for 1 week. I'm in DFW and want to take advantage of a 1st or Business non-rev ticket for that crazy long flight from DFW to HKG. I have found some good fares on other foreign carriers from HGK to BKK and also from BKK to PNH (and then back to HKG). My questions are, will I need a visa? How will this work returning on the HGK-DFW flight without a confirmed ticket? I'm very new to this and have never travel abroad except to London. If anyone knows how this will work or can share some personal knowledge, please let me know. I'm hoping to do this last week of Nov and into the 2nd week of Dec
thanks

US citizen, I assume? No visa needed for HKG, don't think Thailand does and I can check on Cambodia. Bump this in the morning and I'll look it up when I'm at my work machine.

spongblue is correct, no visa needed for HKG or BKK but you will need a visa for Cambodia. Looks like you can apply for one online. As a backup to the HKG flight in case it turns red either going or coming or if F or J fill up, you might want to consider the two NRT flights and then either buying a ticket to get to and/or from BKK by nonrevving on JL, TG, DL or NH. Good thing about NRT is that you will have two other options to get back in addition to DFW in case the HKG flight looks dicey - LAX & ORD. If the HKG flight looks good, you can nonrev on CX or TG to/from BKK if you end up not buying a ticket but you then risk getting stuck in HKG. If you don't get on the HKG flight out of DFW, then you're out the confirmed ticket. Decisions decisions! Take a look at myidtravel on jetnet to see your options for travel on other airlines. It's much easier now not having to go to the airport to purchase paper zed tickets.

I've never nonrevved out of HKG. Some int'l airports like LHR give you a priority verification card which gets you thru security and immigration and then a boarding pass is issued at the gate. Other airports make you wait at the ticket counter until check-in closes then issue a BP. You then have to make a mad dash to the gate.

For your return flight, save your boarding pass from your BKK flight and show it to the AA agent in HKG (or NRT). This will put you at the top of the list assuming you're the first to do OLCI as you will be listed as a D1T.

Hope this helps. Good luck!

Ok, have a few minutes to kill while I wait for some maintenance to be done and I have to test afterwards. Cambodia does require your passport be valid for at least 6 months past your date of arrival. I also see that you can do a visa on arrival if you have a passport photo, your passport has an unused visa page, and you pay $30 (price just went up 1OCT from $20). Or you can do it online ahead of time.

I have used the Cambodia online visa before (4 years ago) and all went well. I went through the border of Thailand/Cambodia though and not the airport. The person with me picked up their visa at the border, no issues there either, but we had no line. Not sure how the airport is, probably easier/quicker than going through border.

Also, you could look getting over there through ICN.