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Old 3rd Aug 2012, 00:52
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MAn on Hold for 15 Hours Qantas

Do you believe it??
Man on hold with Qantas for 15 hours - Yahoo!7
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Difficult to believe.

Oddly, from the comments from The Age in Melbourne, most of the readers don't believe him either

Welcome to Qantas, please hold - for 15 hours

DIVOSH!
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Age had a photo of his mobile phone showing elapsed time.
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and QF have not admitted it but offered to pay his phone bill for the 15 hour on hold call to their call centre. He has records of a 15 hour call to their call centre.

Qantas confirmed it was investigating but had found no record of such a wait.
''In fact, our average contact contact centre wait time during that period was under a minute and the longest wait time was 17 minutes,'' a spokesman said.
The airline apologised for a separate issue where Mr Kahn's booking was cancelled due to a system error. It was reinstated
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Regardless of whether its real or not, he's a moron for not thinking something wasn't right after the first hour. To hold for a further 14 is just idiotic. Who does that?
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Someone trying to make a point does that. Did you read the article including his comments?
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I'm not sure what his point is. That technology sometimes fails?

At least the majority of the readers aren't buying it.
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Somebody with the exact same name, also from Adelaide, appeared in another story a few days earlier.

Herald Sun


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And the UK's Daily Mail take on this article......

Qantas leaves customer on hold for 15 HOURS | Mail Online
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Must have had a super dooper battery in his phone.................
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