ABSA British Airways Credit Card

Having app**** for an ABSA BA Credit Card online and being provisionally approved, it would seem like the application had been lost down an endless pit. Each time I had queried the status of the application via email, I was given a reference number. After some time, I called their 011 number and queried the status, only to be told that the application had expired. Apparently, the delay internally within ABSA had caused the application to expire. To this day, No-one from ABSA Credit Card has called to "revive " the application. As for the 0860 number for the ABSA British Airways Card department , don't bother calling as I waited for 45 minutes at a time.