Qantas Call Centre Long Wait Times

My understanding (from unofficial sources) is that there is a pool of priority phone numbers that airport staff give to passengers which rotates every few weeks.

I will attempt to publish the currently active number(s) in this post:

1300 304 318
1300 659 161
1300 025 396
1300 659 116

1300 024 715
1300 025 390
1300 659 115
1300 659 134
1300 659 502
 
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SHEREEN in CAPETOWN is the absolute 👑
Oh my gosh I am in shock I have my tickets( all of them) I actually called on this number 03 96585302 after finding it somewhere for frequent flyer. I explained the whole scenario over the last few days and the 22 calls backward and forward. She actually took the time to look into it and was in shock she said seeing how many times the booking had bounced back and forward and nobody had solved it. She put me on hold a lot while calling other departments and came back to me several times. She found my points in Qantas space somewhere buried deep in the booking and said something about a code wasn’t issued for them on the booking so they were fixing that up. Then she said the same thing with my original payment it didn’t have any authorisation codes attached to it to link it or some rubbish( sounds like someone didn’t tick a box somehwere). She proceeded to process a new payment on a different card ( I freaked thinking i would be charged twice ) and once that finalised she said both the points and taxes had authorisation codes in their system now ( I am so baffled why they didn’t before) and it would be ticketed in 24hrs but she will flag it and keep an eye on it and call me if there’s an issue. Now during our two hour plus chat she accidentally hung up on me once and called me right back apologising for losing me, then the second time my phone dropped out for no reason at all, I was on hold at this point so I thought “here we go again” I gave up and started to make the kids dinner.imagine my shock 40 minutes later getting a call from her saying she had been working on the booking back end and wanted to call me back to tell me the update. The fact this woman called back twice and explained everything I think deserved a massive positive feedback ( even if I didn’t believe her that this time it was sorted) I asked for her name and department so I can pass on good feedback and she immediately got so excited and transferred me to her manager who took a word by word transcript of my positive feedback. Maybe this helped? 🤔 I told her manager that even if this still wasn’t fixed or sorted I thought she still deserved the praise as she was so wonderful to deal with and the only person in 22 calls who actually wanted to help me, who sourced the problem and actually fixed it. The manager assured me this was def fixed and she said she could see shereen even had flagged her system to follow this through if it rejects again.

So imagine my shock, I’m sitting here at 11pm at night thinking of a plan of attack for playing a hang up game tomorrow and trying to get Hobart, as well as starting to draft a letter to Stephanie Tully explaining all my experiences screenshotting my 22 phone calls, rattling off the names of the callers from when I started taking them at about call #15, and suddenly 8 ETICKETS hit my inbox. All ticketed all flight. My gosh it’s fixed
It may have just been pot luck, it may have been me giving her a raving review to her manager or maybe it was just finally my turn 🤣 So 22 calls later ( where I’ve spoken to some) I got one decent person who actually wanted to help. That’s some good odds right there 🤣new email draft to Stephanie begins.
Thankyou everyone for every ounce of advice
 
A great outcome @parkesyau !! I'm shocked that you got to speak to a manager, I've asked so many times and been told they are always in a meeting...sure.
I've also called probably in the same vicinity of 20 plus times chasing what I call an unallocated payment where I paid with Poli, funds left my account but no eticket issued. This happened in April and I'm yet to speak to someone who can locate my payment for refund. My bank has confirmed that Qantas received the funds. I'll try the number posted above this morning.
 
A great outcome @parkesyau !! I'm shocked that you got to speak to a manager, I've asked so many times and been told they are always in a meeting...sure.
I've also called probably in the same vicinity of 20 plus times chasing what I call an unallocated payment where I paid with Poli, funds left my account but no eticket issued. This happened in April and I'm yet to speak to someone who can locate my payment for refund. My bank has confirmed that Qantas received the funds. I'll try the number posted above this morning.
The only “manager” I got to speak to was when I asked SHEREEN for her name so I could give her good feedback via the website. She immediately told me she will transfer me to her supervisor /manager. She was def a much more senior person and glanced over it all too to double check. Pot luck really. I had 22 attempts before it was fixed and ticketed. The 1300 number in this forum is the one I just persevered most. You need to be quite pushy to speak to someone who can look at the backend system they do have trails of funds and if you have a authorisation code even better. If you can get to the premium reservation team that’s the golden ticket they are in Nz when I spoke to them and had a lot more ability to look through all the systems. Honestly it’s all an embarrassing disaster for Qantas and such a bad look.
 
The only “manager” I got to speak to was when I asked SHEREEN for her name so I could give her good feedback via the website. She immediately told me she will transfer me to her supervisor /manager. She was def a much more senior person and glanced over it all too to double check. Pot luck really. I had 22 attempts before it was fixed and ticketed. The 1300 number in this forum is the one I just persevered most. You need to be quite pushy to speak to someone who can look at the backend system they do have trails of funds and if you have a authorisation code even better. If you can get to the premium reservation team that’s the golden ticket they are in Nz when I spoke to them and had a lot more ability to look through all the systems. Honestly it’s all an embarrassing disaster for Qantas and such a bad look.
Is that this number 1300659116 ?
I'll keep trying, it's not just the missing funds but I then had payment processed again on the phone, Qantas cancelled the route and now I'm waiting on a refund which I'm 100% sure has been incorrectly processed (when I've called up they haven't linked my infants booking to ours so her refund wasn't even initially processed).
 
That’s wonderful @parkesyau 😊 . Keep it up!.

I wonder just how many Shereens there are in Cape Town? That is, not only with some training but with the ability to call back and to access a manger?
 
On the phone with South Africa right now (7.17am) after trying 13 12 11 number.

I just wish I could get through to AKL or HBA but as a lowly silver i doubt it'll ever happen.
 
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On the phone with South Africa right now (7.17am) after trying 13 12 11 number
Ask for shereen 🎉
Is that this number 1300659116 ?
I'll keep trying, it's not just the missing funds but I then had payment processed again on the phone, Qantas cancelled the route and now I'm waiting on a refund which I'm 100% sure has been incorrectly processed (when I've called up they haven't linked my infants booking to ours so her refund wasn't even initially processed).
1300 025 396 is what I was calling mostly
 
You need to be quite pushy to speak to someone who can look at the backend system they do have trails of funds and if you have a authorisation code even better. If you can get to the premium reservation team that’s the golden ticket they are in Nz when I spoke to them and had a lot more ability to look through all the systems. Honestly it’s all an embarrassing disaster for Qantas and such a bad look.
Being told again that the only team who can resolve this is the Customer Relations team who can only be contacted via the website.
 
Being told again that the only team who can resolve this is the Customer Relations team who can only be contacted via the website.
I never believe them. Again are they just trying to hand all and get you off the phone?
Someone suggested to me emailing Stephanie Tully and I was almost about to do it too until it got solved last night. If you are going to email anyone in customer relations I would just go right there
 
I never believe them. Again are they just trying to hand all and get you off the phone?
Someone suggested to me emailing Stephanie Tully and I was almost about to do it too until it got solved last night. If you are going to email anyone in customer relations I would just go right there
The email was my next step given that I've already logged a form with this magical customer relations team
 
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I should clarify: I called eight times, asked "Are you based in Hobart?" and when they said Suva I hung up and called again.

I cannot tell what causes calls to be routed to each centre. It must be first available agent. I tried 1) New booking 2) Change existing booking 3) Frequent Flyer - Make a booking with points and none had any affect on the routing.

My call required EK to unmarry two segments, recalculate taxes and reissue on a new ticket number. HBA agent called through to EK who said it needed to be approved by rev management on their end.

Agent said she would call me back by the end of the day or the next morning. She called me just after 4PM and with EK's approval was able to reticent. She was so stellar she called through to ticketing to have it actioned immediately. (So when they tell you they can't talk to ticketing, it's not true).

I have new eticket numbers in the the text only email, the standard eTicket PDF and verified by looking at the eTickets on EK's website.

I honestly don't believe any of the foreign call centres would have been able to manage the issue and handle it so efficiently.
 
I called last night, standard 13 number. I got Manila I think. Five minute wait to get through.
Enquired about missing points from a cancelled redemption. Five minutes on hold.
Points back in my account before the call ended.
Happy camper.
 
Is there anyway to book a one way QFF classic reward originating in Doha that avoids having to call the infamous call centre?

Thank you.
 
Is there anyway to book a one way QFF classic reward originating in Doha that avoids having to call the infamous call centre?
Don't think so. You should be able to add a 'dummy' Aus booking as the first flight (eg. Syd-Mel or whatever) and then book it all online, but I think you would eventually need to call in order to cancel the first flight.
 
Is there anyway to book a one way QFF classic reward originating in Doha that avoids having to call the infamous call centre?

Maybe look for a .qa version of the website if there is one, instead of trying to use the .com.au version?
 
Maybe look for a .qa version of the website if there is one, instead of trying to use the .com.au version?

There is no Qantas.qa as Qantas doesn't even operate there. QFF classic rewards must be booked through the Qantas web site, not the Qatar Airlines web site.
 
Is there anyway to book a one way QFF classic reward originating in Doha that avoids having to call the infamous call centre?

Thank you.

There was a way of fooling the web site that I learned a few years ago, but now forgotten. ☹️ Hope this will prompt some who knows it to respond.
 

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