Hoy and his girlfriend were on holiday in the country and were due to fly out of Bangkok, but the airport was shut down by anti-government protests, his agent Ricky Cowan told the Scotsman newspaper.
Drawing on contacts of Hoy's sponsor DHL Logistics, they were able to get a flight out of Phuket instead, heading to Singapore.
In a blog on Hoy's official website, his father David Hoy said that after it was clear no flights would be leaving Bangkok, 'we started to look for options which included two-day train journeys or a 1,200-mile drive, neither of which filled Chris with joy. All local flights are fully booked for over a week'.
'Step up our good friend Guy Elliot, CEO for DHL Logistics,' he wrote, adding that Mr Elliot put Hoy in touch with local contacts who found him a flight to Singapore within hours.
They had then found flights to Frankfurt and to Majorca, where Hoy was due to meet another sponsor on Monday.
Hoy won a gold medal at the Athens Olympic Games in 2004, and left this year's competition in Beijing with three more. -- AFP