QF App - Two Factor Authentication & Other gripes

[Christoo]

So does anyone else get the constant having to wait for a text to authenticate your Qantas login on the app or PC.
Especially when travelling in Asia it can take a long time for texts to come through if they do at all.
I understand and appreciate the need for Security... But couldn't this be achieved with a Bio metric solution.
Even if I was on the laptop, why can't I just open the app and use my fingerprint to authenticate, works for Paypal.

Also, why can't the Qantas app ever remember my Passport info for online check-in, sometimes it does then sometimes it forgets.
Qantas also can't remember my Avis preferred number.
I know my passport number off the top of my head but not the expiry date and this is frustrating.

If they want me to book Hotels, why can't they store my loyalty numbers for the hotels?

TripIt is also 1000% times faster and more accurate with updates to flight times and boarding gates.

 

[RooFlyer]

Also, why can't the Qantas app ever remember my Passport info

That, and the other things ... Because it's Qantas.

 

[opusman]

To be fair QF are not the only ones to rely on SMS for 2FA. I wish they supported authenticator apps like Google's but they don't so you just have to live with it.

My solution to the SMS 2FA problem is to get a cheap second phone, and a pre-paid Amaysim SIM ($10 credit lasts 365 days). This phone lives at home, in a cupboard, and does nothing more than forward SMS messages on to my real phone over the internet.

 

[VPS]

To be fair QF are not the only ones to rely on SMS for 2FA. I wish they supported authenticator apps like Google's but they don't so you just have to live with it.

My solution to the SMS 2FA problem is to get a cheap second phone, and a pre-paid Amaysim SIM ($10 credit lasts 365 days). This phone lives at home, in a cupboard, and does nothing more than forward SMS messages on to my real phone over the internet.

Can you share how you do that please?

 

[opusman]

Can you share how you do that please?

I use an app called FreeForward (despite the name it's $2/yr) but I'm sure there are others. Basically you have a SIM that you only use as your SMS number for 2FA that stays at home. The app forwards any SMS messages to your other "linked" phone over the internet. So you leave the SMS phone at home and receive the forwarded messages instantly while travelling (assuming you have Internet access). It works well, you can even reply if you need to.