Jetstar Complaints

I booked heavily discounted flights earlier in the year. Launceston to Cairns. Original trip 5 days staying at the Hilton on a special rate. Reasons we chose cairns
travel was cheap.
cairns is Warm.
Meets Tas Covid requirements.

The original flight has been canceled and rescheduled 7 times. 3 times In the last 7 days.
Each time we have changed our accommodation losing the discounted rate.
We have Lost the discounted car rental.
And the last straw forced to change all flights last minute to Virgin which the Jetstar Credit wasn’t close to...

“COVID-19’ related event
The Australian Grand Prix for 21/11/2021 has been cancelled due to covid-19 concerns. I’ve asked Jetstar for a refund or credit voucher of my return flights from Sydney on that day but they said it’s a non refundable fare. I’ve explained that I don’t need to travel to Melbourne now as the Grand Prix has been cancelled but the CSO and the manager still didn’t agree.
I explained that if I wanted to go to Melbourne at any other time it’s about $50 each way from Sydney so for 2 adults return it’s $200. As these flights are booked on Grand Prix day it’s cost...

Now, I book a $90 dollar flight with return to Tasmania. I'm on quite a low income so I was looking for the most affordable option. However, it doesn't look like I will be making the flight, due to unexpected circumstances at work. I was aware that you cannot get a refund on the cheap package, however, I did not realise that to reschedule cost $60 dollars. Including the return flight, that's $120. I could book a new flight for less than that. For some this is an insignificant amount, but without that I go a week without petrol. I've thought about letting someone else use the tickets, but...

I booked a return flight to Sydney from Brisbane, 3 weeks in advance for a very important event, for my son. The day before, in the afternoon, I receive the usual (Ahead of your flight and so on). 6 hours before departure I received a text on my phone (Your flight has been cancelled sorry but go to this website and check your options. When I went on their website, they requested a 10 digit number. I entered every group of numbers on the booking document but unfortunately it was not one of them. I even tried to talk to a real person but I did not have the 10 digit number for me to talk to...

i had the misfortune to see off my nephew at Sydney airport and had a gross and horribly rude and ugly person on the counter call Jean or Jane, some old cranky woman about 60 with dirty blonde/brown un washed hair in a nana bun with glasses. She spent most of her time talking across the counter with some other person with short grey hair, these people need to attend a course in good manners and customer service. Then to top it all off , we overhead some male who looks like Count Dracula except has a heavy Eastern European accent who was equally rude to an old lady travelling.
Where...

I checked in last night and no boarding pass on my phone today when I was at the gate??
It says here on their stupid website that I have to go back to check in at the counter. They said I have checked in but was late for the gate.
Why? BecauseTHEIR LOVELY WEBSITE told me to.
And an extra $75 to get on another flight. Beauty!

I am from WA and in 2020 I went to visit my family over East . COVID hit and I had to cancel all of my plans... ir more like all of my plans were cancelled for me. I was taking my grandson to the Gold Coast.

I was flying JetStar (1st mistake) they cancelled my flight because of COVID then they sent me a voucher so I could recoup the funds. Great.... right.... Nah.. they then sent an email telling me the "system" accidently reimbursed me two vouchers (2nd mistake) ... 1 would be voided the other would be active.... Well.... I went to claim my airfare today and nearly all of the...

Threatened with removal for saying I was going to place a complaint!

Forced to board in TORRENTIAL rain. I asked for a towel and complained about the care for Jetstar’s customers that it was too much to walk in torrential rain for 50 metres and then wait outside the plane door in the rain whilst boarding passes were checked (again they had already been checked at the outer gate).

People were slipping onto each other, some people were running and jostling to get out of the rain quicker - it was very dangerous.

It is important to note the plane DID NOT need to board as...

Firstly, DON'T bother trying to phone Jetstar! It's so easy to fob you off, and even if they were to give you 'lip service' you have NO record of it. Business should only be done in writing. Yes, writing to them may not get you anywhere, but at least you have a record of their 'customer neglect'. The only way I got written responses that even remotely related to my issue, was through Airline Customer Advocate in Australia. But I must say they did little to be an 'advocate' for the customer; they really just act as a go-between to pass messages to and from Jetstar. But I believe Jetstar is...

There once was an offshoot of Qantas,
With fees hidden well do they haunt us.
Jetstar baggage police,
Have a mandate to fleece.
Then respond to complaints just to taunt us.

Maybe it will carry more weight if we document our concerns in some catchy limericks?

I had a similar experience over a few attempts speaking with their call centre. I needed to change the name of a passenger and for that I had to pay for another, more expensive ticket, which I told them I wasn’t very happy about because I’d paid insurance to be able to make changes but was told I couldn’t. Both times I was asked to hold multiple times for no specific reasons firstly over a period of half an hour the second time over a period of 1 hour. Both calls ended with them saying they couldn’t hear me and then them hanging up abruptly.
In the end I tried to change my booking...