He reckoned that the lack of air force pilots and the incentives the air force now give them to keep them is major contributor to pilot shortage.

If qantas can fly in NZ, why can’t Air NZ fly domestically in OZ? They have got to be better than qantaslink.

What about Rex, one of their planes lost a wheel on take off out of Orange last week. The only airline worse than qantas.

Don’t they just love riping people off. The failure to respond sounds very familiar. They couldn’t care less.

Qantas is not only involved in dishonest and incompetent practices but are failing to respond to customer complaints. This airline that treats its passengers with such arrogance that it boosts its profits by leaving Australians illegally stranded overseas.

A TRUE STORY
In December 2004 I invited my 18 year old son to join me for a one year visit in the Philippines where I was stationed. Excitedly he went to The Sydney Flight Center and got a price of AUD$1,320 for a return ticket to The Philippines. I wanted to pay for the ticket myself, but at that time I was already in the Philippines, so I told my son that I would call Qantas and as long as the price was the same I would buy the ticket over the phone using my MasterCard. This is exactly what I did on December 15, 2004. When I called Qantas I was happily surprised that the ticket was in fact AUD$70 cheaper from them than Sydney Flight Center. Qantas REFUSED to issue a paper ticket and insisted on issuing an “E-Ticket”, I had no reason to suspect this and had faith in Qantas delivering what had been ordered and paid for from them. My son flew from Sydney to Manila on January 8, 2005 on the ticket I had purchased, he had just turned 18 and this was only his second time to travel by air. All seemed well. In December 2005, when his return was drawing near we asked Qantas to book and finalize the date of his return travel. To our total amazment they said they had no booking for my son and couldn’t find any E-ticket for him in the system. Frustrated by the apparent poor Qantas computer infrastructure I attended the Manila Qantas office in person together with my son. After some investigation we discovered that Qantas was claiming that the ticket was only issued as “one way”, according to the Manila Customer Service the Sydney Qantas salesperson taking my call on the day of the booking had converted my request for a return ticket into a highly priced one way ticket that is ILLEGAL for Qantas to issue and doing so would result in my son being stranded in Manila without a visa and no way to return. In the Philippines such illegal aliens are locked in prison. On previous bookings Qantas has sent confirmation of bookings to me via email however on in this case alone they sent a paper receipt to my parent’s house addressed to my 18 year old son. As Qantas Manila staff tried to shrug it off as a misunderstanding which they don’t wish to accept any liability for, their only defense being that my 18 year old son who had only ever seen a ticket once in his life should have noticed that the words “return open” where missing from the body of the receipt. Just for the record, nowhere on the receipt does it say the ticket is “one way”, nowhere. How would an advanced international company like Qantas hide the fact that a ticket had been processed incorrectly as a highly priced one way ticket and expect an 18 year old new traveler to guess that some fine print words were missing? Of course non of us would imagine that Qantas would issue an illegal ticket!

WHY THE TICKET IS ILLEGAL
There is a standard practice that passengers bound for destinations requiring permanent residency are required by law to have a return ticket when boarding an aircraft so why would Qantas even entertain issuing this ticket and why did they let him board the aircraft with insufficient paperwork? When these questions where asked of the Qantas staff in Manila they tried to shift the blame onto Philippine immigration for allowing him to enter the country, this is a totally absurd given that if Philippine Immigration had apprehended him Qantas would have been fined a substantial amount for carrying him on a one way ticket. But then again how would Philippine Immigration know that the words “return open” were “missing”. As a result of this Qantas fiddle, my son was stranded in Manila with 10 days till his visa expired Qantas Manila staff just wanted to pass responsibility to Customer Service in Australia which was clearly just an attempt to push responsibilities to someone else. Australian Customer service did not respond to our mails, answer the issue or do anything, they simply didn’t care that they had illegally stranded an 18 year old in a foreign country in favor of their profit increasing tricks! We compel everyone who reads this to boycott any flights on Qantas Airways. This company sells itself as safe, friendly Australian carrier but they are none of these things.

For your country, for your family, for your safety BOYCOTT QANTAS

Go on, someone with a spare $50 or so register it

How’s this: we are in the front row of economy behind business on a night flight to Perth from Asia with our newborn daughter. We spot a spare seat ahead in a darkened business class, and ask the trolly dolly if my wife could breastfeed our daughter with some privacy minus the glaring lights in economy for 15-20 minutes. He nods, prances off, comes back and has the fucking cheek to tell us there are no spare seats. And from the bottom of his heart, bless him, he suggest my wife could go to the toilets to feed our daughter. I said I wouldn’t be that keen on having my meals in the toilet, so we will pass on the idea. This prick then prances off with not a care in the world.

Qantas, another example why Australian business will always be second rate.

I have heard of cases of people running to check in at Shitstar, only to have it shut in front of them. They left people stranded in Hawaii for two days and that is OK???? Bring on Virgin Blue into regional Australia.

Drive when you can, train or bus is suddenly looking good, qantas and Rex as a last resort.

Not a funny story! At least, I’m just not ready to speak about it yet. I consider this the first step.

Get a life.

If you are happy with qantas, fly with them.

If you ever do have a problem with them, email or write to customer care. If you get a response you will be very lucky indeed. They couldn’t care less.

Had cause to take my daughter to Sydney last month. Previously I would have put her on a flight with qantaslink or Rex, both are so unreliable that I drove her down and back. The pilot shortage will eventually disappear and become a passenger shortage.

As for the gay insinuation, wake up to yourself. Maybe YOU are the one protesting too much. You seem to have an unnatural fascination with Yobbo’s arse.

I have never had a problem with a flight attendant on any flight ever, but have heard horror stories. Did see a flight attendant, and she was well past the use by date, speak to a passenger on a qantas jumbo as if he was a mongrel dog, “sitdown” as if he wouldn’t stop barking. The bloke was returning to his seat as he had been asked to do by the loud speaker. The aged hostie was just rude.

Most flight attendants on qantaslink are trying to give passengers good service to make up for the lousy attitude of reservations and check in, especially in Sydney. They often have a hostile group of passengers who are on flights that are hours late or on a different flight after their booked flight was canceled , often at the last minute or without notification.

I don’t care what the rest of the world does, but I don’t want to put up with male flight attendants “flirting” with each other rather than bringing drinks to half the plane. I will take the hot little honeys any day. And I am very sure of my sexuality.

Hard to take travel advice from someone who thinks that American Pie is a great trilogy and would only watch an AFI winning film if it had naked japanese girls.

As for all the anti gay innuendo..me thinks thou doth protest too much. You probably secretly wanted one of them to slip it into your unsightly white hairy arse crack when you dozed off.

Wanker.