Calling Airlines in other Countries
 

Now that every airline has extreme hold times (Air France/KLM, BA, etc) and they are not open 24/7 like the good old days has anyone outside the US just tried to use Airline Phone Numbers in other countries?

lol I dont know why I feel guilty and excited because I get through within minutes if not seconds and had to share and ruin it for myself lol.

in the rare case i need to speak to a big business, i try their twitter/facebook accounts. usually much better assistance that way

I did this several years ago when snow in this region was causing flight cancellations and I couldn't get through to the airline's U.S. number. The airline (American) listed international phone numbers, the languages spoken, and the hours on its website. I called Denmark; the agent there said that her computer didn't show the cancellation, which I had learned about from my originating airport's website, so she called a private number in the U.S. to verify it. Recently, some Delta flyers have reported calling Singapore.

I use all the time both carrier hub native, other regional and US contact numbers to both make bookings and re-organise existing reservations. Depending on the airline, the contact number determines also the POS. My go to option is a call with one of my SIP lines to the American contact number, since that's equal to free for me. However that way I also call cheap to any carrier, be it e.g. RJ or S7. Calls in the case of smaller airlines usually actually get routed to that local office, where as larger alliance carriers usually have one or several regional contact centres.