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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I got the hangup on connection after a 75min hold today. Just to make a date change on a return of an open jaw ticket. I can't understand why it's not possible to do it on the website - but perhaps AJ has sold off most of the IT. Unfortunately I no longer had time to wait with work and all that stuff - but it's probably my fault. Mea culpa!
 
I am curious, how does this work for customers booking for business trips, or larger companies managing bookings for their staff. Surely they can't put up with that s-storm and will stop using Qantas? Anyone knows more about those situations?
 
Don't worry Mr Joyce, keep acting this way and that "customer" problem will go away all on its own.
 
So I just decided to not accept the change and will wait till closer to time to sort it out, hoping that in nearly 2 months from now, the call centres may have more staff - Ha! Ever the optimist.
Perhaps it will change again, for the better, so you won't have to call at all.

It's happened to me with their half-baked system.
 
This shot shows what happens when I try to book a 6 flight multi-city CBR-SYD-DXB-ZRH-DXB-SYD-CBR for December/January.
Got exactly the same error last night. My attempted booking was NTL-BNE-ADL
Well, and another issue is that security practices are even less standard than they used to be.
Exactly. My last flight out of BNE I went to take my laptop out, was told no need. Which makes cough like this (quote from SMH article) all the more annoying
Greg Hay, [SYD] airport’s general manager of operations, said: “We’ve also noticed people are a little out of practice with security protocols, for example, not taking laptops and aerosols out of their bags at screening points, which is contributing to the queues.”

Surely they can't put up with that s-storm and will stop using Qantas? Anyone knows more about those situations?
All my work trips that had QF sectors on them were ticketed with other airlines. I'd rank QF website a bit better than ET. But ET's call centre is much better. BFOD generally rules out QF anyway.

In other news I got a "How was Qantas" survey after I made a new booking today because the website won't let you add a sector onto an existing booking. Quite enjoyable and cathartic to provide them with a comprehensive spray. 🥳

Cheers skip
 
And yet there are pages of people wanting to do status runs to maintain or gain status 🤷‍♀️
 
Well Captain Lassard, sorry Alan J had a stinker week.
Let's see what his weekend peeps whisper in his ear for next week.
Can he ride a bike.....hold on, Only to possibly back pedal if he's good enough.
 
I have a one world classic reward booked which departs in one week. After the last flight home was cancelled by JAL, I've had to make numerous phone calls to Qantas to get that flight replaced. And the rest of my itinerary reticketed too.

I had my first call to qantas successful in replacing this flight and was scheduled to be ticketed. The following morning I called again and was guaranteed there would be no further changes along with the ticketing being completed. Was also told they would escalate this too.

Then checked my booking hours later and four flights had disappeared.

So I called qantas again.... They said they would reinstate those flights and get it reticketed. I hung up, checked my booking, and found it had disappeared completely.

I typed in the booking reference manually on the qantas website and found the four previously cancelled flights reappeared, whilst the rest were gone. Plus all my passenger details was deleted.

Called qantas yet again and has taken several attempts now to reinstate my existing itinerary.

I am still calling now and qantas keep saying the completion times are ballooning out. They have promised call backs, as no-one can resolve on these calls, and never receive them.

I know Qantas are reliant on Oneworld partner Airlines to complete ticketing changes, however not being able to make changes online makes no sense. It creates work not just for me but for your staff too. It is 2022 for goodness sakes - I shouldn't have to spend hours on hold to speak to staff, with varying levels of service and skill, who could be helping people in greater need.

Glad to hear reading the news and these posts I am not alone in having to battle with Qantas. This is the worst customer experience I've had in Australia in my lifetime.

Sad as this trip has been 3 years in the making. Yet it took being agitated, borderline rude and more calls today finally get through to a supervisor. They couldn't book the flight I wanted so suggested another and actually ticketed it 40 mins later. Took far too much effort to get this done.
 
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Other than AJ foolishly putting his head above the parapet to comment on this , not sure QF have any influence in this.
I’m sure things are just as chaotic over at SYD T2.
My eldest cygnet departed from T2 on Virgin to Melbourne last night. He said T2 was chaotic but didn't check T3 to do a precise comparison. :)
 

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