Flights Bangkok to Yangon (BKK-RGN): Airlines, THB Fares

Bangkok to Yangon is a short, frequent link between Thailand and Myanmar — around 28 flights a week across four carriers. It is among the busiest routes between the two countries, carrying business travellers, families, Myanmar nationals with ties to Thailand, and visitors travelling to Yangon’s Buddhist sites.

Block time is only about 1.5 hours, one of the shortest international hops out of Bangkok. With this frequency and a mostly low-cost line-up, the route behaves like a regional shuttle — seats are easy to find, and the decision usually comes down to timing and the all-in fare.

Corridor profile

The BKK–RGN corridor runs about 28 departures a week across 4 carriers, with an average block time of 1.5 hours, and the lowest fare the feed returned for this route is ฿5,651. The frequency figure counts every carrier on the route combined, not any single airline.

Combined frequency is not your airline’s frequency. Those 28 weekly departures are spread across 4 carriers, and when your flight is cancelled only the airline holding your ticket owes you a seat. A rival’s empty seat on the same city pair does not help unless an interline agreement exists or you are willing to buy a second ticket. That is why a multi-carrier route is not automatically the safer one it appears to be.

“Direct” and “nonstop” are not synonyms. The 1.5-hour figure is an average gate-to-gate block time for a nonstop, taxi time included but connections, check-in and immigration excluded. In booking systems “direct” means only that the flight number does not change — a single-number flight can still put down en route to refuel or pick up passengers. The word that guarantees no intermediate landing is nonstop. Filter on that one if the clock matters.

Airlines & baggage

Baseline baggage on BKK–RGN runs 7–30 kg across the 4 of 4 carriers on the route for which we hold a row. These are carrier reference baselines, not entitlements attached to every ticket: cabin class, fare brand and frequent-flyer status all change the weight you actually get.

Two pricing models on one corridor. Thai Airways record a baseline up to 30 kg with baggage, meal and seat selection already inside the fare; Thai AirAsia, Nok Air and Thai Vietjet price each of those separately. The difference the table cannot show is what happens when the flight goes wrong: a full-service carrier has the network and the agreements to move you onto something else, while an unbundled ticket is usually limited to the next departure of the same airline.

Airlines on this route

4 carriers operate BKK–RGN — 1 full-service and 3 low-cost. Alliances present on the route: Star Alliance. Multiple carriers only affect price when both sides are actually selling in the same window. We hold 6 monthly lows spanning a 42% range.

Four carriers fly BKK-RGN: Thai Airways on the full-service side, with Thai AirAsia, Nok Air and Thai Vietjet covering the low-cost end. Thai Airways includes checked baggage and a fuller service; the low-cost carriers price the seat low and sell baggage, seat selection and meals separately. On a flight this short, many travellers fly with cabin baggage only, which keeps the low-cost fares very economical — compare the all-in price once you have added whatever you need to check.

Carrier count is not year-round competition. Some operators fly this corridor seasonally or on selected weekdays. In a week where only one is genuinely selling, the fare behaves like a monopoly fare. The fastest check is how many carriers actually quote your dates, not how many have ever served the route.

Monthly market-low pattern (THB)

Across the 6 months in our cache the lowest recorded fares run from ฿2,657 (Aug 2026) to ฿3,763 (Jan 2027), a 42% spread. Each value is a single snapshot, not that month’s average. This corridor scores 6/10 on our own catalogue demand ranking.

The price is attached to a date. Our most recent low is tied to a 2026-09-21 departure. Fares on international corridors move with the day of week and the holiday calendar more than most travellers expect, and shifting the date by one or two days usually does more for the price than switching airline. If your dates are fixed, read this number as a theoretical floor rather than something you will be offered.

A missing month is not a missing flight. The table shows only months where a capture succeeded. A month that is absent has no recorded value from the latest pass — usually because the schedule is not yet on sale, or because that capture returned nothing. It is not a signal that the route has closed. Check live pricing for the month you care about.

Fare trends

Between 2026-W20 and 2026-W31 we captured the BKK–RGN low 8 times, ranging ฿5,651 to ฿6,924 — a 23% spread. The cheapest reading fell in week 2026-W31, and from first capture to last the low moved down 15%.

With this much frequency on a short hop, BKK-RGN fares stay low and competitive. The cheapest seats are the low-cost carriers’ early-released fares — booking two to five weeks ahead usually lands a good THB price, and mid-week departures tend to be softer than weekends. Demand rises around regional holidays. For a route this short, travelling light is the simplest way to keep the cost down.

How to read a 23% spread. The gap between the cheapest and dearest week is the size of the movement this corridor showed in the window we observed. A wide spread means timing matters a lot; a narrow one means the fare is stable and watching it is not worth your time. The figure measures only the lows we captured, not every seat sold that week.

Seasonality & best time to book

Our catalogue lists 4 carriers on this city pair. On BKK–RGN the season is set by weather more than by price. The Gangetic plain and the Kathmandu valley are driest and coolest from roughly November to February, and monsoon runs about June to September. Major Buddhist observances crowd the sites far more visibly than they move airfares.

Bangkok–Yangon fares move with demand. The cheapest windows fall outside school holidays, Songkran and New Year; book 4–8 weeks ahead for normal dates. As a Buddhist-pilgrim corridor, fares rise around religious festival dates and the pilgrimage season.

Frequency is seasonal too, not just price. The 28 weekly departures in our catalogue is an estimate of the standard schedule; carriers add and cut rotations by season. That means the cheapest month can also be the month with the fewest options — and with fewer rotations, one cancellation hurts more. Read price and frequency together.

What our data actually shows. Of the 6 months we captured, the cheapest reading was Aug 2026 at ฿2,657 and the dearest Jan 2027 at ฿3,763. These are observations, not a forecast for next year: a month that read cheap in one pass may not in the next. Use it as a starting point for comparison, not a fixed calendar.

About Yangon

Our catalogue lists 4 carriers on this city pair. Yangon (RGN) sits in Myanmar, uses MMK, and the visa position we record for a Thai passport is: visa-on-arrival when borders open. The flight from Bangkok runs about 1.5 hours. Yangon — Shwedagon Pagoda, major Buddhist relic site

Yangon is Myanmar’s largest city and its commercial centre, a place of broad tree-lined streets, colonial-era architecture and a deep Buddhist heritage. Its landmark is the Shwedagon Pagoda, a vast gilded stupa that draws visitors and pilgrims alike. For Thai travellers the city is an easy, close destination — a short flight away, with a shared Theravada Buddhist culture that makes its temples and rhythms feel familiar. Yangon also serves as the main entry point for travel onward across Myanmar.

What visa-free does not mean. Entering without a visa in advance is not a right to work, not a right to study, and not a guarantee of admission — the officer at the border still decides. The conditions most often forgotten are remaining passport validity, an onward ticket and proof of accommodation. All three are asked for more often than travellers expect, and their absence lets the airline refuse boarding at the departure airport.

Passenger rights on BKK–RGN

Our catalogue lists 4 carriers on this city pair. Departures from Thailand fall under Thailand CAAT; the return from Yangon falls under the destination’s civil-aviation regulator. The two regimes are not the same, and what you are owed changes with the direction of travel and the nationality of the operating carrier — never with the fare you paid.

No European-style compensation schedule applies here. The destination sits with the destination’s civil-aviation regulator, which typically imposes duty of care, re-routing and refund obligations but no fixed EU261-style cash bands. The enforceable floor is therefore the airline’s own conditions of carriage plus Thailand CAAT rules for departures from Thailand. Read the conditions of carriage before you buy — that is the document that actually binds you.

Baggage and delay are governed by different instruments. If a bag is lost or arrives late on an international journey, the basis of claim is the Montreal Convention 1999, which applies where both the origin and destination states are parties. Its ceilings are denominated in SDR and revised periodically, so only the current figure is citable. The practical consequence is that the two claims are independent: having no delay-compensation right does not remove a baggage claim, and the report should be filed at the baggage desk before you leave the airport.

FAQ

Which airlines fly Bangkok to Yangon?

The BKK-RGN route is operated by Thai AirAsia, Thai Airways, Nok Air and Thai Vietjet. Compare baggage, alliances and fares in the table above.

How long and how often is the BKK-RGN flight?

Block time is ~1.5h, with ~28 flights per week across all carriers.

When is BKK-RGN cheapest to book?

The lowest fare our feed returned for this route is ~฿3,196. Book 4–8 weeks ahead; avoid Songkran, school holidays and peak season to save 15–30%.

What exactly is the lowest fare shown on this page?

It is the cheapest fare our cache has recorded on BKK–RGN, captured one snapshot at a time. It is not an average, not a live quote and not a guarantee that a seat still exists at that price. Use it as a reference floor, then check live pricing.

What is the difference between a direct and a nonstop flight?

Direct means the flight number does not change, but the aircraft may still land en route. Nonstop means no intermediate landing at all. If the clock matters, filter on nonstop, not direct.

If my BKK–RGN flight is cancelled, who is responsible?

The destination sits with the destination’s civil-aviation regulator, which generally imposes duty of care, re-routing and refunds but no fixed EU261-style cash bands. The enforceable floor is the airline’s conditions of carriage plus Thailand CAAT rules for departures from Thailand.

Will my bag be through-checked if I book two separate tickets?

No. Through-checking happens only when every sector is on one ticket or an interline agreement exists. On separate tickets you reclaim the bag, clear the transit country’s immigration and check in again — and a missed connection is a new ticket at your cost.

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