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@Lat61 permanent聽 residents do not need a round trip ticket, they always check my visa to make sure I am a resident before I board, most airlines will sell one way ticket,聽 you need an onward ticket, usually a throw away to complete聽 your trip, before I was a permanent resident I always聽 bought a one way with a throw away, we saw what can happen here during the Pandemic those with round trip tickets waited for the date to return. In the meantime they canceled聽 all flights, so you are stuck in the Philippines,聽 if you had only one way tick you could leave before it shut down

Remember it well, we had a ticket for 4/23/20, but PAL kept pushing it back, finally got out 6/19/20.聽 Was there with Balikbayan status since October of 2019, so there was no problem leaving.聽 Had been waiting to take a February cruise out of Singapore, had tickets to fly to Singapore, but it all got cancelled.聽 聽Got a 6 month credit for the tickets, never used.

Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but thought I'd add my own experience on this recently.聽 After learning about needing an onward/"throw away" ticket I decided to get one for my recent flight to the Philippines.聽 I am traveling from San Antonio, Texas, USA to Davao City (via Los Angeles and then NAIA).聽 In San Antonio, the agent didn't even ask me when I checked in.聽 At the gate, the agent asked me if I had a returning flight.聽 I explained to her I had an onward ticket, but her system "wouldn't allow her to enter it", so she just added that I was returning (without asking for any proof on my end).聽 I thought, well that was a wasted $60 I spent on an onward ticket.聽 Then at Los Angeles, the gate agent called me up and inquired if I had a round trip or some other destination.聽 I showed her my onward ticket details and was cleared.聽 So it actually was good I got one after all.聽 Note: As I write this I'm still in Los Angeles, so I might get stopped again by BI in the Philippines.聽 We'll see.

For clarity, I plan to stay in the Philippines this time (after having visited several times in the last few years).聽 I hope to meet some folks on here, although, being in a remote are in Mindanao, it may be a stretch.

@mati_steve

Yes you need the onward ticket. Just think of it as a little insurance policy. Airlines are on the hook to return you back to your point of departure if denied entry by immigration. Oh and you pick up the tab not them.

In this case you paid an excessive amount.

You can get an onward ticket from Onwardticket.com for about US$15

Happy landings

I've taken the trip 7 or 8 times in 20 years and I've never been asked to produce a forwarding ticket. I did buy a throw away ticket once and that was the time I was asked if I had one, but I wasn't asked to produce it. I have the SRRV visa now so it's not required but I wasn't sure the folks at check-in were aware of the exemption, but I wasn鈥檛 asked about it.

The most recent itinerary was Charleston, WV to Chicago to San Francisco to Manila to Tacloban. I'm assuming the originating airport would be the one to check. If so, I'm probably one of the first passengers with a Philippine destination at that airport.

@mati_steve
Yes you need the onward ticket. Just think of it as a little insurance policy. Airlines are on the hook to return you back to your point of departure if denied entry by immigration. Oh and you pick up the tab not them.
In this case you paid an excessive amount.
You can get an onward ticket from Onwardticket.com for about US$15
Happy landings - @Lotus Eater

This topic had come up a number of times over the years on the Vietnam forum. Though there is no onward-travel ticket requirement to enter Vietnam, some airlines were insisting from members proof of such before being allowed to board their flight.

Turns out, according to reports from multiple members, that all airlines have a waiver available whereby the traveller relieves the airline of responsibility for a return flight in the event the traveller is denied entry to their destination country. Whether or not an airline allows the traveller that option is entirely up to that particular airline, but the waiver does exist. Two of the VN forum members who had posted on that subject said that they had to be quite insistent before being offered that choice.

Still, $15.00 sounds like the choice I'd make if needed. Sure beats haggling at the departure counter.

Yes Aidan, especially for the Philippines and 14 or 15 buck ticket is cheap insurance if you don't intend to leave for some time. Funny last time we were in Hong Kong no one asked for an exit ticket either there or here in PH. Normally they do. Difficult to work out at times like many things here.

Cheers, Steve.

There is always the option to buy a ticket online from Cebu Pacific or Air Asia to Hongkong when asked for a return flight. Some airlines also give you the option to cancel for free within 24 hours. Another option is to buy a refundable ticket with free refund.