If you have been affected by the disruptions in air travel resulting from the plume of ash from the Icelandic volcano that is drifting across Europe your flight might have been re-booked …..many, however, will receive no compensation for the disruption to their plans because many insurance companies have deemed the volcanic ash chaos an “act of God”. A FRANCE 24 survival guide to air travel chaos www.france24.com AFP – A senior US official warned Monday of potentially serious damage to military jets from volcanic ash after a buildup of glass was found in the engine of a NATO fighter plane in Europe. “This is a very, very serious matter that in the not too distant future will start having real impact on military capabilities,” the official told reporters. “Allied F-16s were flying and they did find glass buildup inside the engines,” he told reporters in Brussels, adding that the ash had affected one aircraft. Ash from volcanos can be turned into a glass form at high temperatures when it passes through a jet engine. Airspace across much of Europe has been closed since Thursday due to an ash cloud sparked by an eruption at Iceland’s Eyjafjoell volcano. “I think the airspace is closed for a reason,” the US official said….. Air France, British Airways, KLM and Lufthansa have reported no problems after launching flights to test fears that the ash cloud would destroy jet engines….. www.france24.com Did God do an ‘act’ on your airplane? Your insurance company might think so …
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I had a flight to Gran Canaria which was forced to be cancelled as government closed the UK Airspace because of the Volcano Ash.
I submitted my application form to Groupama Travel Insurance but they say there is no section of our policy which would say we would cover the costs occurred due to your flights cancellations
Ryanair is supposed to pay back the flight tickets but other items such as hotel bookings (first night was charged), etc remain.
This is unfair 
What can I do? Where can I complain to?
I’m travelling to Brazil in a couple of weeks’ time via London Heathrow. I’m trying to wade my way through the quagmire that is travel insurance policy wording at the moment and need some help.
One of my concerns is that I am flying from another UK airport to Heathrow with BA. At Heathrow I am due to catch a connecting flight to Brazil with non-BA-affiliated TAM airlines (presumably this means I need to collect my baggage at Heathrow and recheck it?). Given the looming BA strikes I’m concerned about the possibility of missing my connecting flight if there are delays/cancellations of BA flights from my home town to Heathrow. I can’t seem to find insurance that specifically advises whether I would be covered in such an event.
Another concern is baggage loss. I’ve come across lots of policies that claim £1,000 or even £1,500 "lost baggage cover", but when the policy wording is examined what is actually being offered is usually something paltry like £50 per lost bag. Therefore, as I will only be taking one case (the contents of which will be valued at considerably more than £50) is there any point is purchasing insurance? This seems to be the same with medical cover too.
Any travel insurance advice?
Thank you in advance.
I’m italian and i want to deal a medial insurance for a trip in New York.
I need a travel insurance that covers flights and medical care, i didn’t found on expedia.com. Where’s?
Now i can only deal flight insurance (18$ a person)
I purchased a domestic round trip ticket from Frontier, with the optional travel guard insurance. I just got called away on business for work, and cant make my flight. I will probably have my company fly me to my destination and purchase a one way ticket back home(must be from Frontier, other reasons). Is there any way I can get out of paying the 0 change ticket fee, I mean I bought the ticket like 4 days ago, and the flights not for over a month. Thanks!
I start work in Italy as soon as I have received my passport. Since I already have a job in Italy, and my new employer has proved to them that I do, it is going to be prioritised. I should have it in about 2 or 3 weeks, and shortly after that I will be getting on a plane and starting my new job.
However, I’m unsure about a few things.
I have to fly from London Stansted, as that is the cheapest airport where I can get to Brindisi in Italy. I will have to travel down the night before, as the flight leaves early in the morning and I can’t find any plane/bus/train that will get me there in time, not even an overnighter. Will I be allowed to sleep in the airport?
Also, I have applied for an EH1C card, but will I need travel insurance as well? I am going to be staying in Italy until the end of August, so I will be there for about 5 months. I can’t find any travel insurance that doesn’t cost a fortune. Even insurance with my bank would cost me £90, which I can’t afford as I have to save up for flights. I’m not even certain exactly how much a flight would cost me, as the prices seem to be changing daily. I can’t book a flight until I’ve received my passport. Does anyone know if flights would be cheaper to book a few days or a few weeks before travelling?
I have found a few things on the Internet about the town I am going to – Lecce – but not a lot. Can anyone give me some firsthand information? I am going to Italy to be an Au Pair, but I don’t even know simple things like where the nearest shops or parks are! I’m going to feel a bit useless having to get the parents or children to show me. I’d rather know a few things before I go.
I’ve been told that the weather has become hot and sunny recently. Do you think this will last, or am I better to bring some cold weather clothes as well?
Lastly, I’ve been told I’m not allowed to take fizzy juice or teabags on the plane with me! I am addicted to Irn Bru and Tetley tea, and I’m not sure how I’m going to be if I can’t drink either of them. Think I’ll end up being even more homesick! It was my parents that told me this, but I can’t find anything that says about it. Does anyone know?
Any other information or help at all would be much appreciated! Thank you in advance =)
Hey, I am 18 and really want to see the world…..at first I was terrified of the cheap thought of staying in a £10 a night room with other people…I thought if I travelled long enough they may try and murder me. Anyway I am over that movie influence…….say I was to save for 6 months what else would I need to do? For exampl flights, insurance, what else? I am thinking of going to NYC,Thailand, Tokyo,Australia, Los Angeles,Maldives
I booked flights through delta.com for November. Our trip insurance says that in the event of a bakruptcy where they discontinue flights it will not cover the loss. Is this a big possibility for happening?
I am looking at flights from LHR=BNE for Christmas 09. I’ve found a very cheap one with Royal Brunei (680 pounds return) which I’m thinking of booking, but I’m not sure – my annual travel insurance doesn’t cover a bankrupt airline. Also, given GFC I’m wondering if flight prices are likely to go down in the next 6 months?
ok ok. my friend and i are planning a trip to australia set for next summer (we’re highschool students if age is important) and yeah we’re kinda new at this. (ok REALLY new about this) lolz parents arent gonna help since they say this’ll help me grow up faster.
my friend and i will have to aquire visas to gain entry to australia. what’s the procedure? when is it too early or too late to apply? and my friend isn’t a u.s. citizen and only has a green card. how will that affect odds. we’re also planning on staying with relatives.
we’ll haev to book tickets for the plane. what do i need to know about travel insurance and flights. since we’re still minors, how will that affect us?
and since we’re minors, any tips u wanna give us? well actualy by the time the trip comes (assuming we’ve passed) my friend shall b 18 and me 17.
what other plans should we make. is a year in advance too early?
oh and kinda relevant. my friend has to gain +2000 on SATs to have a good chance of going. how hard is it to gain a +2000. any websites on sats…. or australia for taht matter? ive already looked at some websites for australia but there’s a probaly a few ive missed
I hate flying on airplanes. I have flown a LOT in my lifetime. My parents took me on a lot of vacations with air travel and I’ve flown a lot in the military and after. The older and older I get, the more I fear it. To the point that when I go on business trips every other year now, I am almost in a low state of panic the entire flight. Last year, I got Xanax prescribed by my doctor, but I wasn’t that impressed with it’s calming qualities. In fact, I took probably 5 Xanax before I was even remotely feeling calmer.
So I have two questions:
1) I often hear that air travel is safer than automobile travel, but I feel that this analysis could be misleading. Here are a couple of reasons why:
a) In flights that go wrong, you usually die. In automobile accidents you sometimes die but are often just injured. When they compare air safety vs. car safety are they just comparing accidents with accidents or are they comparing deaths to deaths?
b) When they compare air safety vs. auto safety, they are just using numbers from the population as a whole. However, we all know that there is a HUGE difference in safety between different groups of drivers. In fact, the insurance companies base their rates on some of these differences. So if you compare deaths of air safety passengers to the deaths of the SAFEST group of drivers, does air safety still rank favorably?
3) Lastly, when you drive an automobile, YOU personally have a huge contributing factor to the outcome of the safety of the drive. When you fly in an airplane, you give total control over to people that you don’t know and in most cases, never meet or see! Would you drive in an auto with people you didn’t know or couldn’t see?
2) Question #2 pertains to drugs that calm fear of flying… What do you guys recommend that actually works? I don’t care what the side effects are. And don’t recommend Xanax, because I already told you that it sucks.
I’m flying to Washington DC on thursday out of Birmingham International via Amsterdam. We have heavy snow right now and lots of airport delays.
My flights are booked through a travel agent and it’s all booked through as one trip, so my question is, if my flight from Birmingham is delayed because of the weather and I miss my connection in Amsterdam, will they put me on another flight? In the event that they won’t, I have travel insurance, would missed flights due to weather normally be covered under this?
me and my girlfriend are planning a holiday to salou in spain about the 7th of july next year. We will not be 18 so cant book online. went to the travel agents and we have an offer to a 3 star hotel for a week, insurance, flights there and back and transfers to and from the hotel it comes to about £540 each i think its good since we cant book online thinkin its the best we are gona get what do you think?
me and my girlfriend are planning a holiday to salou in spain about the 7th of july next year. We will not be 18 so cant book online. went to the travel agents and we have an offer to a 3 star hotel for a week, insurance, flights there and back and transfers to and from the hotel it comes to about £540 each i think its good since we cant book online thinkin its the best we are gona get what do you think?
Iv Been Offered a Trip to Moldova Italy (i think its Moldova =S) That £700 covers my insurance food passes, flights and hotel and equipment hire. Is that good value for 10 days of Skiing?
I need to place a £120 Deposit by tomorrow so i need help fast =)
We booked roundtrip tickets (Northwest) back in June, for February 2009. We did buy trip insurance to cover us incase of any illness, family death, etc. However, we just found out this week that my husband’s company is having it’s annual shareholder’s meeting (required for all shareholders/spouses) is being held a week later than usual- and lands right in the midst of our vacation. I called the airline to see if we could switch to the same flights, a week earlier (which, are in fact cheaper tickets than the ones we have now), and was told we woudl have to pay a change fee that is actually more costly than the tickets themselves.
I feel that this is ridiculous- there is NO way that changing something this small, 7 months in advance, is costing the airline anything.
Any ideas on how to get this "change fee" waived, or a refund (and then I would just re-book for the desired date)?
Change fees were waived. Thank you for your thoughts (on husband’s company helping out). NO thank you for those of you calling me "cheap", or insinuating that I am stupid, when I was given no other ticket option, and don’t know whole story. Obviously, not doing things on the "cheap" if I am actually insuring things.
for airline ticket protector insurance, I think it almost covers nothing as it usually just covers things like a medical illness, the plane is hijacked and or death of a family member or other extreme stuff!!!
and if my flight is overbooked, what if the flight I WAS BUMPED OFF OF WAS ONE OF THE LAST FLIGHTS FOR THE DAY??? Then what? wll they still get me there and and is it by law they have to get you to your destination, what if everything is booked for a WHILE?
But what if one has 2 days off in and their flight is cancelled and the rebooked flight they are on gets them their so late that they (this is before they boarded the plane) decline to travel and want to go another time, WILL THE AIRLINE TICKET PROTECTOR INSURANCE Cover this. Who wants to go on a trip that has been really cut down? and if my ticket is non refundable, will they waive that for this? and also if I want to go another time if my flight is cancelled and the flight they rebook me on will get me there too late, will they charge me any penality like the ticket change fee and or fare difference if I change my travel dates, well I lost a good amount of my trip by a certain point (with my 2 days off, If they can’t get me there by 2-3 pm I Will ask to go another date)
I got the insurance with my travel agent. How much can I get back at this point? Can I get money back for my deposit and non-refundable flights since I got the insurance?
I purchased travel insurance for a trip that was going to cost about 0. My spouse came down with a really vicious cold and there is no way we were going to get on an airplane, but it was over in a day.
The insurance cost . The maximum claim is 0.00 (which, they figure, is the cost that the airlines charge for rescheduling flights). This was during the weekend when doctors are generally not available except at the Emergency Room.
Here's the kicker: They won't pay unless you provide a note from your doctor saying that you are sick. The cost of getting any sort of medical comment during the weekend will exceed their maximum payout.
By the time we get in front of a non emergency doctor, my spouse be well enough to fly, and even if that were not the case, the actual cost (that is, not counting what our medical insurance would pay) of a routine doctor's visit is over .00.
Since, under these circumstances, we would not ordinarily have consulted with a doctor, we'll end up paying (plus the original insurance) so that we can have proof of sickness enough to claim 0.
Re-arranging our lives to actually get to a doctor will easily cost the remaining 3.
I can see doing it with a higher maximum (we'll certainly incur more than 0 in changing plans) – but with such a low maximum, how can we say its worth it if they're require medical sign off?
I will take 5 flights, and rent the cars. What kind of insurance should I buy for my trip?
With all of the flight cancellations currently happening and the predicted continuation as they inspect the fleets, are there any travel insurance policies that cover this situation? Or, is this something that should it happen to me I will be at the mercy of how the airline wants to compensate?
I am aware that it refunds the money, not rescheduling my flight, I can read. My question concerns insurance for flights cancelled by the provider. What I have found so far covers flights cancelled due to inclement weather.
Hi.
I am overjoyed as I am pretty sure that I am finally pregnant. The trouble is that we have booked a Virgin cruise for October when I will be about 7 months pregnant and not allowed on the ship! They took a huge deposit off us – around £3000 to cover deposit for the ship, flights and hotel before take off and I am worried sick that we could lose all of this money. If so it doesn't seem fair as I am happy to travel if the pregnancy is uncomplicated but they would not take me.
I can't believe that I could be left high and dry for committing the crime of getting pregnant!
Would it just be a case of 'tough' and them running off with my cash?
I have looked at my holiday insurance (which is the deluxe version) and it excludes pregnancy!
It is really taking the shine off my good news!
Anyone know what happens?