I booked a one way flight for
Lyon to Singapore for Aug 2025, and used redemption for an upgrade to business class. Qatar Airways cancelled my flight and simply put me on a flight from Paris to Singapore. I then wanted to try to change my flight to a day earlier but still keeping the departure city from Paris to Singapore as there was not much option to fly out, as i was going to be spending my time in south france ( hence the original booking to depart from Lyon to Singapore).
Ive called Qatar booking helpline at least 5-6 times and also tried live chat to do this simple change. 3 out of 5 call center staff i spoke to were simply unintelligible, and they had difficulty understanding my request. Some asked if I wanted to change my name, others asked if i only wanted to change the date but still fly out of Lyon (??? despite me repeating myself countless times that qatar cancelled the flights out of Lyon as they don’t fly out of Lyon anymore). After spending a lot of time making them understand my request, i get a standard, sorry i cannot access the system as that is under the frequent flyer program, and I’m in general enquiries. or sorry you’ve answered some verification. questions incorrectly ( like which email but I have multiple email accounts) but i can’t tell you which ones ( like when i asked is it a gmail or is it an outlook account?) You’ll have to call back. It’s crazy frustrating. In the past year I’ve travelled 3 times on qatar to Africa and parts of Europe and 2/3 times i’ve had extremely bad customer service. They previously gave me some voucher as compensation but i also had trouble using the voucher.
In the past I’ve been a frequent traveller on Qatar Airways and had always thought highly of the airline. However It’s been soo disappointing and horrendous on the past year that i’ve finally had enough. I won’t be travelling on qatar airways anymore if I can help it, its customer service is sorely lacking and agents poorly trained with no concept of customer service. Lamentable state of affairs ( and even if you wanted to give constructive feedback there is no way to give it!!)