Airasia
AirAsia - terrible service, beware credit shell

Over the weekend I tried to contact AirAsia's Australian reservation hotline and waited on hold for 1 hour. I gave up. Today, I waited for 2 hours until someone finally picked up. Then, the quality of the connection was so bad that eventually the operator hung up on me. Note - I have never had any problems with phone call quality.

To understand the background leading up to this phone call, please read on.

I purchased AirAsia flights during a sale. Some months later, my wife fell pregnant so I contacted AirAsia to see what our options were. They asked for a doctor's letter to confirm the pregnancy and that we couldn't travel on those dates.

AirAsia offered me a credit shell, explaining that this could be used to make new bookings or transfer credit to family & friends. The shell can ONLY be utilised by calling their reservation hotline - hence my patience on the phone. You can NOT utilise their credit online.

I thought this meant I could change the names on the tickets, so I found two buyers for my tickets. However, the bookings have been entirely cancelled upon accepting their credit shell offer. So now there is NO WAY I can get the same prices for those flights and would have to pay double the price (from roughly AUD1500 to AUD3000).

Their emails were very poorly worded and did not clearly state that my bookings would be automatically cancelled. Instead, they implied that I would be able to cancel the bookings once the shell was created. They implied that I would be able to transfer the bookings to another party but this is certainly not the case.

Company: Airasia
Country: Australia
State: Western Australia

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