Miles & More (Lufthansa, Austrian, Swiss, and other partners) - Real Hon Circle phone# from Kassel

I am abroad and can't dial into the german 0800 phone# from the Hon Circle Hotline. Because in germany, these special service numbers are routed on regular phone numbers, esp. when abroad the regular landline # is very helpful as international calls to these special numbers sometimes wont go through.
If anyone has that number, could you please pm me or could we post these in the faq, too?
I could supply the landline number for sen hotline, which I am using now.

I am abroad and can't dial into the german 0800 phone# from the Hon Circle Hotline. Because in germany, these special service numbers are routed on regular phone numbers, esp. when abroad the regular landline # is very helpful as international calls to these special numbers sometimes wont go through.
If anyone has that number, could you please pm me or could we post these in the faq, too?
I could supply the landline number for sen hotline, which I am using now.

When abroad I just use the US 1800 HON number. Calls always go through, regular US rates. Very good service.

The German 0800 number is really pointless. I don't get how you can screw things up that much for your customers that travel a lot. So when abroad, I call the old +49 1802 993388 number via Skype. The only thing that works so far without problems.

The German 0800 number is really pointless. I don't get how you can screw things up that much for your customers that travel a lot. So when abroad, I call the old +49 1802 993388 number via Skype. The only thing that works so far without problems.
And I just select that HON number from the contact list of my iPhone in order start dialing them and don't care where I am. ;)

And I just select that HON number from the contact list of my iPhone in order start dialing them and don't care where I am. ;)

^^ same, same , except i prefer blackberry;)

^^ same, same , except i prefer blackberry;)

Good choice.

And I just select that HON number from the contact list of my iPhone in order start dialing them and don't care where I am. ;)

ditto, but i always call the austrians... most competent!

ditto, but i always call the austrians... most competent!

Don't say that too loud or often, otherwise it will be enhanced !

The German 0800 number is really pointless. I don't get how you can screw things up that much for your customers that travel a lot. So when abroad, I call the old +49 1802 993388 number via Skype. The only thing that works so far without problems.

If you do this not using skype but, e.g. int the UK with a BT landline, you get charged GBP 6 per minute :mad:

So normally I call this number and if its Kassel I ask them to call me back, if not... :D

^^ same, same , except i prefer blackberry;)

Good choice.

ditto, but i always call the austrians... most competent!
Actually it doesn't matter, whether using a RIM, Apple, Nokia or whatsoever. ^

I just don't get the need for a toll free number or hassles like using skype in order to save a few dimes. :rolleyes:

I just don't get the need for a toll free number or hassles like using skype in order to save a few dimes. :rolleyes:

Absolutely.


If you do this not using skype but, e.g. int the UK with a BT landline, you get charged GBP 6 per minute :mad:

But what's the point for LH to (make us) use telephone numbers which some phone companies use as an excuse for what is nothing but a rip-off. And that's not even talking about those who won't route such calls.

I just don't get the need for a toll free number or hassles like using skype in order to save a few dimes. :rolleyes:

absolutely, i'd rather spend a few minutes on the phone and have someone competent on the line than call a different toll free number each and every time...

besides, i have a roaming flatrate anyway so it doesnt matter to me... ;)

absolutely, i'd rather spend a few minutes on the phone and have someone competent on the line

haha

than call a different toll free number each and every time...


Right. Just skip the toll-free in the first place and give us a regular number which is accessible from any standard telephone network worldwide.

Toll-free service numbers is simply outdated as a concept in a time where the cost of a phone call is negligeable.

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Right. Just skip the toll-free in the first place and give us a regular number which is accessible from any standard telephone network worldwide.

Toll-free service numbers is simply outdated as a concept in a time where the cost of a phone call is negligeable.

Yes please. Again, the problem is not the wish of saving money. The problem is I cannot technically reach the german HON CIRCLE Hotline over the advertised 08000 number while being in the USofA... Just give me a real number that can be called from anywhere in the world.

just give me a real number that can be called from anywhere in the world.
+49 180 2 993388

SOG: Seems like you have some sort of Uber-phone.

800 or 180, no difference between it, those numbers just suck. Earlier this year in South Korea, I had this happen again. I use SIM cards issued by different carriers (T-Mobile DE and a Vodafone DE card in the Blackberry). There's no GSM-networks in Korea, so there goes my vintage non-3G Blackberry Curve. Can't remember the host network, but it wouldn't route a call to a German 180-line. Why not use a plain landline phone number?

Like yourself, I don't have the patience nor good-will to waste time on phone numbers which don't work right away. Like those 180-numbers.

That's not "connecting people", that is simply disconnecting people.

Inferring from the regular line of the FTL and of the SEN service, I would have guessed 0561 9933 7018. But that seems to be wrong. Anyone want to try all possible endings for the 0561 9933 ... :)

I guess if there was a direct line, someone here would have known the number.

SOG: Seems like you have some sort of Uber-phone.

That number is stored in my phone since I became HON in 2005. It definitely works calling them from the US, Japan, Taiwan and Switzerland. Not sure, if I had to call them from other countries. Currently it is the iPhone 3G (German T-Mobile contract), before I had the Nokia E61 (German Vodafone contract). No problems to call 0180 numbers. :confused: