Junkets insurance alert as airline industry struggles

EssentialTravel.co.uk is urging travellers prepossessing advantage of bargain-basement air fares to make sure they force adequate travel insurance in place.

According to the travel insurance expert, the airline industry is in trouble, suffering from what the settle down’s director, Stuart Bensusan, describes as a “vicious rotate of falling passenger numbers and falling air fares”.

Mr Bensusan expects casualties, with airlines present bust and holidaymakers with no travel insurance therefore run the chance of being stranded overseas with no comeback or compensation.

He also advises travellers who do imagine out cover to check the policy small print, explaining “most insurers proffer cover for chartered airline collapse, but very few cover in the episode of scheduled airline failure. This is despite the fact scheduled airlines impel up the bulk of all flights in and out of British airports”.

In connected news, the Department of Health (DoH) is reminding UK travellers to other EEC countries that 3.3 million European Vigour Insurance Cards (EHIC) will have expired by the end of Trek.

The card allows free access to essential medical care, although the DoH advises UK residents holidaying in Europe to rival out additional travel insurance.

The EHIC can be renewed online or over and beyond the phone up to six months in advance of expiry.