New York → Bangkok flights

Median sits at $369 — but a rare dip to $229 shows up

Key takeaways

• Median fare of $369 across 30 daily snapshots is your realistic budget baseline
• Middle 50% of fares fall between $364 and $378 — a tight band suggesting pricing is largely stable day to day
• Low of $229 appeared at least once, but it's a clear outlier well below the typical range — don't count on repeating it
• High of $395 is only about 7% above the median, reinforcing how narrow the everyday range is
• Overall spread of 72% looks large only because of that single low fare — exclude it and the range compresses sharply

30-day price trend

See full numbers and stats on the JFK → BKK price history page.

The full picture

Over the 30-day window we tracked, JFK–Bangkok fares mostly held steady in a narrow band: the middle 50% of quotes (p25–p75) ran just $364 to $378, with a median of $369. That tight clustering tells us this route's pricing is fairly predictable on most days — travelers shouldn't expect wild day-to-day swings under normal conditions.

The headline spread of 72% is driven almost entirely by one low outlier at $229, well below everything else in the sample. Outliers like this typically reflect a short-lived error fare, a one-off promotion, or a data artifact from a single cached snapshot — not a recurring booking-window pattern. Because we only have 30 days of snapshots rather than a full multi-month history, we can't say whether fares soften at a particular point in the booking horizon (e.g., 3 weeks out vs. 3 months out); the data simply doesn't extend far enough back to show that trend. What we can say is that if you see a price notably below $364, it's worth booking quickly, since the bulk of observed fares sit $364-$378 and rarely dip further.

We don't have reliable visibility into a single dominant carrier from this dataset, so we can't make claims about specific airline pricing behavior or day-of-week effects — the sample doesn't break out that detail. The honest takeaway: budget around the $369 median, treat anything near $360 or below as a good deal, and treat the $229 fare as a lucky exception rather than a pattern to wait for.

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