6 hours waiting for AA

Yes, six hour wait is ridiculous.

Cancel AA and if you have another breakdown use as local recovery service.

I stopped using AA when I learned that they prioritise women callers. Didn't fancy the thought of waiting for hours on the side of a motorway while the lads rushed to the lady with a dead battery because she left her headlights on outside Starbucks. Insurance usually covers breakdown assist anyway.

Sorry a month.

Does that make AA policy misandrist? If I pay for a service, I expect to be treated the same as everyone else paying the same fee. No special treatment sought. If you consider that misogynistic, you're either ill informed, or just a simp. Priority should be given based on on who called first and where the breakdown is. So if I call for help and i'm parked on my driveway, I have no problem if someone breaks down on the motorway is seen to first. I do have a problem if priority is given based on gender and i'm left waiting hours with kids in the car just because some woman called after I did.

I hadn't seen that actually, but when I was with AA years ago and my brava broke down, I was told they would be with me in an hour. I called them back after 2 hours and was told that they female callers who were prioritised, so I was updated to 4 hours wait time in total unless more "priority" calls came in. Didn't matter that I had my 5 year old son and 2 year old daughter with me. I called a tow truck instead and footed the bill.

When I rang the AA the next day, I was told about their policy of prioritising female drivers, regardless of where the breakdown was, or time of day. I duly cancelled my policy and haven't taken one since, even when adding it to a quote made the quote cheaper. Having AA breakdown was and still is a waste of money imo if they still have such policies.

Maybe that's what the other poster assumed. If my point wasn't clear enough. It was that the AA prioritised all calls by women, no matter the time of day, location, or reason for the breakdown. Their policy would leave a man with kids stranded at the side of a motorway while giving priority to a lone woman parked in a supermarket carpark. That's the real BS and I refused to keep paying for it.

The dead battery comment was a bit of tongue-in-cheek and was to highlight that priority was given to women, regardless of the situation. Misogyny.…please. I've a Wife and four daughters. I wouldn't call it fair treatment if they were prioritised in a car breakdown call based solely on their gender.

Imagine if this was the policy Taxi drivers had to follow. Any woman who calls for a Taxi, or enters the Taxi queue skips to the top of the line ahead of any man, because….safety/priority. Would that be OK?

My understanding was always that that AA would respond more quickly than the service provided by your insurance company. I've been left waiting for 4+ hours in the past and considered paying for AA to avoid that but the OPs experience would make me rethink that.