jet airways flight to bangkok

The Disclaimer means the passenger has to repay the airline the costs of being flown back if they are denied entry. Its not a thing of the past and some airlines use this system . But it tends to be mainly in the Asia region that this is used . If one is flying from countries like UK , Australia , America etc * its very doubtful that the disclaimer option would be allowed . Most airlines would not want the bother of having to chase you for the money , as wells as possible delays and other complications involved in having to fly back a passenger , so they would prefer to bump you from the flight or make you buy a ticket.
Possibly within the Asia region the staff are more aware that its unlikely that passengers are going to be denied entry to Thailand so they are willing to accept disclaimer in the instances that they ask for an onward ticket in the 1st place.

*( although one poster did say he was allowed to sign a disclaimer form when flying from New Zealand to Bangkok once)

QUOTE - "even if i had proof of onward travel to cambodia they were not accepting that either. thanks for all "
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Some airlines a bit fussy about this and want something more substantial than just a flight to a neihbouring country. In most cases they will just grumble , but Airlines like Jetstar can be difficult about these matters .

The poster here who managed to discuss these matters with Jetstar staff have done well . Sometimes when conctacting Jetstar staff , you find you are talking to call center staff in another country and who refuse discuss anything other that actual airline/flight info.

From #17;

Its not a thing of the past and some airlines use this system

Most airlines would not want the bother of having to chase you for the money

:-)

quote - "Most airlines would not want the bother of having to chase you for the money"
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What I meant by most airlines is airport staff outside of Asia . If flying from another Asian city there is a fair chance of being allowed to sign a disclaimer form (altho often they don't ask to see ticket anyway) , if flying from outside of Asia there is only slim chance of them agreeing to that. Flying from outside Asia its safer to get visa.
With the exception of that one case in NZ all the examples of people signing disclaimers to be allowed to fly I have seen reported on this forum have been on inter Asia flights.

You want to risk your vacation.. go for it... I'm not...

Jetstar will let you board a thai bound flight one way from aus with a disclaimer,
- that's first hand 2011 advice

RE ROADAHEAD,
Well isn't that what I just said ? , I said it would be safer to get visa if flying from outside Asia.
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ELGERMA . That s good news , could you give a liitle more background about that ?. Did you find out that by contacting them , or did you sign a disclaimer form before a flight yourself ?. I wonder if they will do the same for one way flights to Singapore and Malaysia from Aus ?.

Alligator1 , were you flying from when you signed disclaimer ?

Dave Elliot, I went to the trouble of getting a free 2 or 3 month , or double entry (totally forget which but it was free) visa at the thai consul first when I realized there could be check in dramas with a one way ticket,
at the check-in I was quizzed about whether I had a visa so I asked what would have happened if I hadn't have had one, the reply was that they just wouldv'e had me sign a waiver and still let me on the flight

That was jetstar one way from Melbourne To bkk in February

Thanks for that.