Don’t Want to Wait on Hold? Qantas Still Provides Customer Service via Social Media

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Qantas still provides customer service through social media channels including Facebook. Photo: Timothy Hales Bennett on Unsplash.

Need to contact Qantas? If you need urgent assistance or have a complex ticketing issue, the best option is probably to call. But you could end up waiting a while on hold – especially if it’s a busy time of day and you don’t have any Qantas status.

Unfortunately, there’s also no guarantee that you’ll get through to an experienced agent who is able to solve your issue on the first call. Qantas operates call centres in five countries, and the level of expertise between different operators can vary a lot.

If you’d prefer not to call Qantas, the good news is that there are several other options available to you.

If you just have a question, you can often get a fast, accurate answer by asking on the Australian Frequent Flyer forum. Depending on what you need, you might also be able to self-serve in the Qantas App or on the Qantas website.

Qantas also has a dedicated email address for getting assistance with Classic Reward ticketing issues involving travel on partner airlines.

You can contact Qantas on social media

If you have to get in touch with Qantas but your enquiry is relatively simple, and not urgent, another option is to write to Qantas on social media.

Qantas has official accounts on social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram and TikTok. If you need assistance, you can send a private message to Qantas via one of these official accounts.

Don’t make a public post! Also, make sure that you are contacting Qantas via an official page, and not a scammer. There are plenty of fake accounts pretending to be airlines. You can check that it’s an official airline page by looking for a blue tick beside the account name.

Qantas’ social media accounts are managed by the Auckland contact centre. The staff there are generally well-trained and on the ball, so there’s less risk of one of them accidentally cancelling your ticket. (Sadly, some staff at Qantas’ outsourced contact centres are still doing this occasionally – even in 2025!)

A Qantas A330-300 and an Air New Zealand plane at Auckland Airport
As an alternative to calling, you can write to Qantas on social media. Photo: Matt Graham.

When you contact Qantas on social media, it might take several hours to get a reply – and sometimes longer. So, this isn’t a good channel for time-sensitive enquiries.

Here’s what a few AFF members have had to say about the support they’ve received when contacting Qantas on Facebook Messenger:

In my experience response time has always been extended (ie. anything from almost immediate to several hours). However expertise and helpfulness of these channels has always been first rate.

Use messenger for all my non urgent inquiries and have about 95% success rate in getting what I need done, only one or two when they said call in, but I had similar issues to those resolved on there in the past so you could try again a day or two later. Generally allow 12-18 hours for first response, then if you are prompt in your reply allow 1-2 hours for each subsequent answer.

I’ve found the social media service to be excellent. It may sometimes take some time to get a reply but they’ve always been very capable. Makes sense with the team being located in Auckland.

Tips for contacting Qantas on social media

The easiest way to contact Qantas customer service without calling is to write to the airline on Facebook Messenger.

If you need assistance with an existing booking, Qantas will need the following information to assist you further:

  • Booking reference (your six-digit PNR)
  • The names of all passengers on the booking
  • Flight details

If you don’t provide all the relevant information upfront, Qantas will have to ask you for it later – which will add to the time it takes to get your issue resolved.

The editor of Australian Frequent Flyer, Matt's passion for travel has taken him to over 90 countries… with the help of frequent flyer points, of course!
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They’re possibly overwhelmed with crazy uncle Freddy delays.

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Try Twitter as well but could be fallout from TC

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Yes, response times have been slow of late due to Alfred, but they do get around to it eventually. I sent a message on Friday afternoon, it was resolved a full day later (about 5 hours of the delay was mine).

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In my experience response time has always been extended (ie. anything from almost immediate to several hours). However expertise and helpfulness of these channels has always been first rate. I’m almost certain these channels are staffed by Australia-based staff

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In my experience response time has always been extended (ie. anything from almost immediate to several hours). However expertise and helpfulness of these channels has always been first rate. I’m almost certain these channels are staffed by Australia-based staff

I've heard that it's staffed in Auckland.

Several hours, yes, but at the moment it's more like half a day or longer for the initial reply.

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I’m almost certain these channels are staffed by Australia-based staff

It's the AKL contact centre who does the social media channels.

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It's the AKL contact centre who does the social media channels.

Explains a lot

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Does anyone know if Qantas still provides customer service if you message them on Facebook/X/Instagram etc?

I had a basic issue yesterday and didn’t have time to call at that moment, so tried messaging them on Facebook but the message hasn’t even been read yet. I guess this is no longer a thing?

My experience was the same last year on Facebook messenger. Response times in excess of 24 hours and incredibly unhelpful.

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Pretty sure someone reported some success in a thread a few weeks ago

That was me, and yes, happy to confirm again that messaging through FB worked very well for me, although this was obviously pre-Alfred.

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