Jetstar Complaints

DO NOT FLY WITH JETSTAR IF YOU HAVE A BIKE

DO NOT FLY WITH JETSTAR IF YOU HAVE A BIKE

As most people that fly with mountain bikes know they typically come in around 23kg if packed in a commercial bike bag.

Most airlines have at least a 23kg weight allowance and typically don't apply any oversize changes to sporting goods. I have flown overseas and intestate with Qantas, Virgin, Air New Zealand and Air Canada with a bike bag weighing between 23 and 24kg when packed and never once had an issue having it checked as my included bag. It has always without exception been carried under the flight's standard included luggage...

wheel chair service

Booking Ref PF8SVM, flight JQ36
Due to two major back operations my wife requires a wheel chair as she can only walk short distances.
On Thur 5/4 on arrival her wheel chair was awaiting, as usual , in the past I have wheeled my wife but was told
by the Jetstar employee that due to thefts the policy was she had to accompany the chair and push.
We requested to stop at the duty free but was told if we stop she would leave us at the duty free and go back to the plane,
we proceeded disappointed.
Then at the baggage pick up, she then stated this is as far...

I will never fly Jetstar again

My wife & I originally booked a flight to Bali for May 2017 we had to change that date because my wife's father was diagnosed with cancer from asbestos (terminal) so I changed the dates to October and Jetstar felt the need to charge me another $170 ! then I had to change flight dates again due to my father in law passing away (funeral etc..) to May 2018 and was charged extra again. There was no EMPATHY from Jetstar at all !!
Yesterday I received an email from Jestar stating they have changed my flights to different dates in May ! which means now I have a sleep over in Melbourne...

Flying to Caines

I’m really need to put my air line ticket on hold that I have on Monday 2nd April The 24inches of rain is preventing me to travel to my area in Far North Queensland. I don’t have a date atm to change my ticket. I can get any proper answers from s Jetstar rep
My email isroz@sdtlp.com.au my phone number is 0411850096. Will some one in Australia contact me please. Travel is Sydney to Caines

Jetstar is unreliable and "bullshitting" customers

My mum an elderly person was booked on a flight to return to Singapore on wed 25 March and was notified 2 days earlier that flight cancelled due to "engineering" issuesvand the options were via Sydney on a 19 hour journey...imagine a person of her age having to do this. We however booked her oN another flight JQ7 flying out at mid day wed 28th and received a text at 7.40am saying it's delayed till next day 2.30am!!!!!! This is absolutely terrible and unacceptable. I want a full refund for both flights!!! Pls share this and the way this arline treates customers is unacceptable esp older...

Jetstar Customer Care - Anything But!!

I had no idea this page existed. My flight was cancelled 24/03/2018. I was put on another flight. I left Brisbane Airport 5 hours after I arrived. As a result, I completely missed my 50th Birthday Lunch with visiting family and friends at The Star at Darling Harbour. I had to Live Chat Jetstar Customer Care upon my return. This lady, Mary Joy, was so unhelpful. She kept sending me Terms and Conditions Links in the Live chat but was not really listening to my complaint. Using phrases like "I understand" and "I'm sorry" but not resolving the complaint satisfactorily at all. Jetstar Customer...

Flight Cancelled Last Flight of Day - Not reimburse Hotel Costs to stay night in Sydney as result of Cancellation

I was on a flight from Syd to Melb - last flight of the day. 1hr before flight due to leave Jetstar cancelled the flight and put me on a flight to Melb the next morning. I had to quickly try and book a hotel for the night in Syd which cost $200. Before I made the booking Jetstar told me they would reimburse Hotel costs up to $150 but that they would not reimburse until after I had taken the flight home to Melb.
3 days later I went on line to lodge my claim for $200 hotel costs only to be told via a online assistant that Jetstar would not be reimbursing any $ for my nights stay in Syd...

Kansai Airport - Jetstar check-in team

This was definitely the WORST airport experience, or commercial for that matter, I have ever received in my entire life. At 7.40-45pm I enquired at the check-in desk (i.e. JETSTAR by the way) specifically what the check-in procedure was, how to do it and then proceeded to notify the receptionist that I would be back shortly to check-in my baggage. I accept my mistake for misinterpreting the check-in times but at NO TIME during my firm and almost repetitive conversation with the receptionist did she let me know that it was last check-in time. She only stared at me blankly and allowed me to...

Scam

Today, I contacted Jetstar 131538 to inform them of a scam re text message offer of $1 dollar return flights and basically they couldn’t careless they weren’t interested in referring the matter to their IT branch no kind of follow up yet the offer from Vidsource looked real, they admitted they knew of it poor response

$75 fee for 5kg

What an evil, stupid, mendacious company. I thought Ryan Air was bad but Jetstar was worse. I guess they're counting on naive overseas travelers not reading the fine print and having nowhere to leave luggage when they transfer from overseas flights to domestic flights. This has been our only bad experience in Australia. The overhead compartments were almost empty because of their ridiculous limits. I'm surprised the government has not stepped in as they must be hurting tourism. I'm surprised their poor employees have not all quit.

Purchased Seats Given Away

I purchased upfront seats on a flight from Singapore to Shantou. My seats were given away by Jetstar on both the outward leg and the return journey. It seems to me that since these seats have to be paid for, Jetstar could have collected the upfront fees twice. Has anyone else had this experience? It was bad experience, as the seats were for my elder parents and caregiver. The seats I purchased were together and aisle seats. The ones they allocated were separated from each other, further back, and non-aisle. Buyer beware.

What a total rip off

So.. Melbourne has 2 airports, as I now know.
Realising I had booked Avalon after studying the map I realised it was no good for the car hire and accomodation I had selected and paid for.
No worries, they have a within 24 hours of booking cancellation policy if your trip is over a week away.
Except they don't.
It's only for the US website, Jetstar.com.
Interestingly none of the pages relating to cancellation for the au site work, they have 404 errors page not found.
Apparently not only was it not the right website but my ticket is a starter ticket so is...

Delayed again

Normally I fly Air Asia. Always on time. Great service and pleasant staff
Second time I have flown Jetstar and yes second time my flight has been delayed for 3 hrs.
Seems to be too often, in fact every time I fly with Jetstar. Seems to be that they cancel flights to have a full plane load.
Get your act tightened before your competition overtakes you

Birthday ruined twice cancel hawaii

I booked over $2000 for my birthday flight to hawaii. A portion of initial flight was a voucher upgrade to buisiness calss. After a 5hr delay on first leg...which involved AFP..the second main flight to hawaii was cancelled by jetstar. They promised to refund entire trip...so i went home with ruined birthday...thinking i would at least get refund. A year later after much arguing i realised that i was going to have to settle for the voucher they gave me for $911. After they told me they refunded me musleadingly (they only refunded a small portion.) So i panickex and ised voucher to try and...

What happened in perth, stayed in Perth. This is Adelaide.

I went to Adelaide from Perth . Perth airport Jetstar customer service measured my baggage and got positive sign for carry on 3 baggages. We have family of 3 person including my 4 years one. We always need to take her little bag with full of necessary things like water and wipes and an extra dress. That’s it. My wife has a Vanity bag. So the Perth airport Jetstar allowed us to go. Nice. Now at Adelaide during returning, they asked me you need to weight all the bags including my daughter’s small bag and my wife’s vanity bag and they said it should be total 21 kg for all the carry on...

Vssie

Have just watched every passenger be charged for hand luggage something wrong with their system if everyone thinks the same my ligand luggage was 7 kg yet charged a 60fee

Will never travel jet star again not good late departure and terrible airline and website was impossible to add luggage even if I wanted to
Very poor service is

Have been lied to about changed fare prices

I had to change my flight and add my husband as extra passenger I called jetstar and was told the $55 flight was now $90 for my husband (my son later told me that on line the fare was still $55) When I asked the Jetstar staff he said no it was now $90! A lie!!! Then my changed flight which was $139 was going to cost me $110 to change

The week before I had to change my flight for compassionate reasons I had paid insurance and was told I would have to pay $500 extra. The phone call was cut off and when I finally got through they told me the fare had gone up to $560 I said my niece...

NZer of the Year Kristine Bartlett charged $464 to change fare

A celebrated equal pay crusader has been stung by Jetstar with a costly flight change fee that left her "gobsmacked".

Reigning Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year Kristine Bartlett was trying to fly home with a friend after accepting her award in Auckland when it became apparent they had booked the two return flights for the wrong month.

It cost about $464 to change the two tickets to the right month. Bartlett said she simply "couldn't believe" the costly price tag of making the change.

"I just about hit the floor," she told the Herald. "It's shocking. I could have...

Adelaide ground staff --

Flew from Sydney to Adelaide with Jetstar despite reservations about the airline (unable to book another flight at short notice). Pleasantly surprised as ground staff polite and efficient.
Return a few days later another story - service levels akin to the depths I have experienced in USA, Luton/London or eastern Europe. Bullying ground staff who take your bag from you and put it through the bag drop system even though it was under 7kg, flight delayed for over an hour without any announcements of information to waiting passengers. A bag weighing and tagging process which many...

Michelle

Sitting at the airport in Christchurch, on time, checked in and ready to board flight to Wellington when the almost standard announcement is made that the plane is 20 mins late....I’m not surprised because it’s normal for Jetstar to be delayed. It does make me wonder if These guys know how to not be late? Seriously what’s wrong here? Do you realise the stress you cause when appointments have been made, people have been lined up to collect you from the other end and people have been up since 4am this make sure they dont arrive late.... we all know how punishing Jetstar staff can be when you...

Mr White

Just over a year ago Jetstar flew 4 times a week from Avalon airport to Hobart. Wonderful. A little later they trimmed it to 3 times a week. Understandable. Then by March 2018 they are stopping ALL flights from Avalon to Hobart. It seems someone or more likely the management group does not know what they are doing. I suppose they are still we paid though.

excess baggage fee. $$$$.

What a rort this is - my carry on baggage was already weighed & tagged from a connecting flight, then when waiting at the cairns airport for our connecting flight, just prior to boarding I was told my carry on needs to be weighed, even though it already was tagged as been weighed. I explained to the male Jetstar employee it has already been done, as you could clearly seen it's been done & tagged. I feel I was targeted as I was a young girl travelling with another friend. I had just put my jumper & ski boots in my carry on, which has now taken it over, I said I will put them...

Possible malfunction with radio communications on Jetstar aircraft causing stabbing headaches on the ground

In regards to Jetstar Australia, I would like to know why every time one of your Airbus aircraft fly over Wollongong, we get stabbing headaches. I have traced every other possible source, spoken with doctors, specialists, professionals, managers of local airports, telecommunications experts, and have been able to narrow it down to your Airbus A320 aircraft in particular. The two that flew over today, JQ723 and JQ517 gave us severe stabbing headaches. Why would that be? Do you have powerful (more than the regulation 40 or 50 watts) weather radar in the nose cone? Do you have overpowered 4G...

Don't Fly Qantas.com!

I think it's time to expand the concerns documented in this website to include the Jetstar corporate master: Qantas. When Jetstar cancels their flights for sometimes questionable reasons, Jetstar's parent company is often the beneficiary via the sale of high priced last minute tickets. Similarly, when the Jetstar check-in line moves very slowly (due to extreme baggage fee gouging) and the passengers at the end are cut off and miss their flight, Qantas can gain last-minute sales. This doesn't appear to be an innocent outcome. I think it's time for Don't Fly Qantas.com! Qantas controls...

An absolutely criminal company

I have never had a single jetstar flight where I didn’t feel robbed.
Today’s latest robbery including weighing my purse with my laptop and my actual bag, which was 1kg over in total and therefore required an additional fee of $60 to check in at the gate.
Thanks Jetstar, I guess today’s delayed flight was the least of my troubles (when are your flights on time?).