Jetstar Airways

My 75 yo father flew Jetstar domestic Adelaide to Melbourne. I arranged this flight for him online as he is blind. At the Jetstar check-in Adelaide he was charged $70 for having a near empty cabin bag that was only 4cm over length. Technically a breach of cabin baggage dimensions but he was not aware of this. Took all his spare cash to pay it so he had no cash to pay for a taxi at Melbourne airport. He is unable to use an ATM. He explained all this no consideration given no assistance offered. The attitude was take it or leave it. Will never fly them again.

Melbourne-Cairns return. Flight to Cairns departed reasonably late. Both flights just average. Service okay and reasonably friendly but nothing great. Planes clean. If you get a cheap airfare then I would recommend flying with them but there are other domestic airlines who are better service wise.

JQ3 SYD-HNL on 4th December one way first time international with Jetstar. Had a delay due to a computer issue so for safety reasons we left at 20.30 instead of 18.00. During the delay the flight attendants were not any good as they had put them self in the galley and only came down with a small drink of water which wasn't that nice. The captain was much helpful with information during the delay. After take-off in flight entertainment started but not for long. Didn't have any food or drink as I was sick during the flight except water during the delay. Would recommend it if your looking for the cheapest way possible but at the same time wouldn't recommend it. I would personally keep to domestic with Jetstar.

Frustrating trip to Launceston flying Jetstar. Remember to book any checked in luggage more than 24 hours before your flight and if you get an error message that says you are not eligible to book call their service centre to resolve (which we should have done) as baggage charges increase significantly if you buy baggage allowance at the airport. We also arrived to the airport with ample time to spare but waited 30 mins in a service queue to sort baggage which caused us then to be late for flight. Partly expected for a low cost airline I suppose.

We travelled from Melbourne to Singapore yesterday. Purchased flights approx 5 months ago on a special. We had seats 1 J and K which are bulk head seats. We have travelled business class with Emirates and were never under the assumption that we were going to get the same level with Jetstar. Some fellow passengers were disappointed with the service but they had much higher expectations. We would defiantly fly Star Class again and I think for the extra it represents good value especially if you can purchase during a sale.

SYD-HNL-SYD. Seated at the back of the plane. Plane was full but there was enough space. Check in was efficient and flights on time both ways. IFE was the only let down. Very limited range of movies and even though we flew over in Oct and back in Nov we had Nov choices both ways so 20 hrs with only 2 movies I wanted to see out of the limited selection. We didn't buy food but took our own on the plane and this was no problem. Checking in baggage is not inexpensive but if you do it at time of booking it is not too bad. If you follow the rules about booking/ flying with a LCC they are definitely worth looking into.

Took advantage of specials to Japan to either Osaka or Narita flying from Sydney stopping at Gold Coast. Very surprised with the service I received flying from the Gold Coast to Narita on A330. Staff are friendly helpful and less rude than their domestic counter parts. Flight to Narita was 9.5 hrs from Gold Coast and add around 1.5 hrs from Sydney to Gold Coast but still being a very large plane and only around 50 or so people on board you can take advantage of the 4 seaters. I have learnt that you don't have to book seats on these flights and pay an extra $25 for it better to use that money to add check baggage to your flight and checked baggage isn't really cheap at $45 for 15kg. The food was ok best to bring your own snacks and water.

My Jetstar experience began with the website not taking my booking properly and checked baggage wasn't booked. For this they charged me an additional $70 to check my 7kg bag on a flight that didn't cost much more for myself. Flight was late took an extremely long time getting on board due to lack of organisation. Probably the most uncomfortable seats I've ever experienced. The hostess was snarly. I ordered an iPad for the flight and the selection was terrible.

We flew Business Max class from Melbourne to Singapore and although Jetstar promises that they offer all of the normal business class service they neglect to mention that the seats are only marginally larger than economy and hardly recline at all! There is so little room between the rows that when the passenger in front has his seat reclined it is almost impossible to leave your seat! On a short daytime flight perhaps but on an overnight flight sleep is impossible. The food was however quite good and the alcohol service OK but nothing makes up for uncomfortable seating or the lack of pillows (unbelievable even though they provide a blow-up neck support). They also don't offer the normal express service through immigration etc and no priority baggage handling which is quite annoying. So in summary - a definite improvement on economy seating but by no means the normal business class that they promise but then again you get what you pay for!

SYD-HBA-SYD in economy row 1 bulkhead. I'm a QFF silver and was again impressed by just how good JQ can be for LCC. Efficiently boarded & pushed back right on time (each sector). Row 1 bulkhead/partition seats were a good choice for a day flight. No IFE or free snack service but not needed. Clean aircraft. However it does take more effort to monitor a JQ booking for schedule changes and cancellations.