Rare1 stop · 10.5h
WAS to LIMPeru
Lima
$347
usually $630
−45%
Most monthly lows $409–$630. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · WAS → HKT
Washington to Phuket
Best fare, round trip
$1,112
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Wed 21 Oct
- Return
- Wed 28 Oct
- Stay
- 7 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 20h
- Airline
Etihad
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
ThailandPhuketThailand’s busiest beach island — crowded where the road goes, empty where the boat does.Best windowNov–MarAirportsPhuket (HKT)Every route into PhuketFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 20 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Etihad, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,112 for 14,784 km each way, that works out to about $38 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $42 per 1,000 km typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 12 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Phuket, this fare ranks 9th — 56% above the $715 from Los Angeles. For context, the middle fare among the 26 routes of similar length we watch out of Washington is $925. We have 2 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Phuket: Nov–Mar.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
Press a date to compare its fares
The median cached fare across this calendar is 7% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $1,331 then versus $1,243 now, across 19 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $964, on 15 Oct.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Cached fares · checked 17 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 2 months of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Dulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI) ↔ Phuket (HKT)
- Flight time
- ≈20 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈14,784 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Etihad
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Mar
Good to know
WAS → HKT, answered.
How far in advance should I book WAS → Phuket?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Washington to Phuket?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Etihad. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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