QF Text Notifications

[The Rok]

I got a text notification today to politely tell me that my PER-KTA flight will be leaving a couple of hours late. Bummer!

Usually these texts just come through with the name QANTAS, no number, but this one came through as just a phone number.

Funny thing though, it was a UK number. +44 number. Why? Why would these notifications come from the UK?


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[docjames]

Are you sure it's actually from QF?


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[mannej]

Computer software program?


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[Hawkeye]

My most recent flight delay was about 6 weeks ago (QF51), and the Qantas sms came from a number with a +356 prefix i.e. Malta!

Tripit pro notifications have a UK (+44) prefix for me.

 

[Ewing]

Tripit pro notifications have a UK (+44) prefix for me.

Yep.

All my TripIt notifications come from +44 7950 858235.

 

[The Rok]

This is the number my Qantas notification came from. Not Tripit.

+44 7624 815295

 

[Must...Fly!]

I have had an SMS notification from QF using that number in the past too.

 

[Ewing]

It's probably just a third party SMS provider, eg: Clickatell or one of the other ones out there.

An SMS notification I received today informing me of a successful upgrade came from 0421 267 500.

 

[oz_mark]

There's nothing that guarantees a message comes from where it says it does. I got a message from a number that wasn't in use recently!