Travel Insurance

[JAS]

If anyone thinks that travel insurance is a waste of time...think again. It's not just for medical...you might need it to get you home too.

In the last few days in the UK we have had an airline go bust and today our 3rd largest package holiday group went down too...and a another airline that flies to the UK has colapsed in Spain. Most of these should be covered by the ATOL but this stood out in the 2nd news article...

Atol does not extend to flights booked with XL but passengers can, for a small fee, return home on a CAA flight.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7604866.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7611639.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/7610252.stm

Regards
JAS

[Dutchy]

One thing we found out that when we recently went to the gold coast we took out some travel Insurance for $100- and the main benefit was it covered any excess payable if we smashed the Hire car, which meant we didnt need to pay extra to reduce to excess which saved about $200-....worth looking into

[devilsadvocate]

Good tip Dutchy. Looking back, I think I cost msyelf about EUR200 unneccessarily in Europe - dammit.

The only catch is - does the travel insurance have an excess to claim the car crash excess amount back?

[JAS]

It gets worse....

Boo to the Caribbean but good on ya Bruce baby

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7614974.stm

Now another airline may well go down tomorrow...and it's a flag carrier too...don't assume their government will bail them out...SwissAir didn't survive after 9/11.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7610482.stm

....and another holiday firm dies...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/gla ... 610205.stm

Regards
JAS

[magpie in the 80's]

stop saving your pennies JAS.
you'll have no travel agencies to book with
and you'll have no airlines for your trip back to s.a

[mighty_tiger_79]

stop saving your pennies JAS.
you'll have no travel agencies to book with
and you'll have no airlines for your trip back to s.a

6 month boat trip

[JAS]

stop saving your pennies JAS.
you'll have no travel agencies to book with
and you'll have no airlines for your trip back to s.a

haha....no chance...I'm going to get over the see my wonderful boys one day if it kills me...and I can't see the likes of Quantas being that strapped for cash.

I might try something other than flying though...

...we have a new series just started here...it's Charley Boorman...the guy who travelled with Ewan McGregor in 'The Long Way Round' etc. He's going from Ireland to Sydney and trying not to use scheduled flights so if I leave now I might just make it in time to celebrate my 50th

http://byanymeans.bigearth.tv/site/page ... y/home.php

Regards
JAS

[JAS]

Sheesh...another one

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Busine ... rkey%2B%2B

Regards
JAS

[devilsadvocate]

Sheesh...another one

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Busine ... rkey%2B%2B

Regards
JAS

From that article JAS: 'The firm, which also trades under the name Travel Turkey, is based in north London.'

Probably run by bloody Ar5ena1 supporters.

On another note, Alitalia will be out of business tomorrow. How stupid is this - Unions refused a deal with the troubled airline involving 7,000 job cuts, saying that was too many. Well as of tomorrow, the whole workforce will be on the dole, so is that OK?

Alitalia has been on the brink for 2 years+. When Air France did their due diligance and decided not to buy, the writing should have been on the wall.

[JAS]

Sheesh...another one

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Busine ... rkey%2B%2B

Regards
JAS

From that article JAS: 'The firm, which also trades under the name Travel Turkey, is based in north London.'

Probably run by bloody Ar5ena1 supporters.

On another note, Alitalia will be out of business tomorrow. How stupid is this - Unions refused a deal with the troubled airline involving 7,000 job cuts, saying that was too many. Well as of tomorrow, the whole workforce will be on the dole, so is that OK?

Alitalia has been on the brink for 2 years+. When Air France did their due diligance and decided not to buy, the writing should have been on the wall.

They're still hanging in there....just...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7615903.stm

Are Arsenal turkish???

I know your lot (going by your location) are the Yids. When I went to Jordan in 2002 for a hol I hired a guide for the trip and he proudly told me that he is a Tottenham fan...didn't have the heart (or guts) to tell an arab that his team are known as the Yids He then asked me who my team is and I spent the morning explaining rugby union

Regards
JAS

[Squawk]

From that article JAS: 'The firm, which also trades under the name Travel Turkey, is based in north London.'

What, did they used to make nice airline food for xmas travellers?

[devilsadvocate]

Are Arsenal turkish???

I know your lot (going by your location) are the Yids. When I went to Jordan in 2002 for a hol I hired a guide for the trip and he proudly told me that he is a Tottenham fan...didn't have the heart (or guts) to tell an arab that his team are known as the Yids He then asked me who my team is and I spent the morning explaining rugby union

Regards
JAS

Nah, Arsenal are French HAHAHA.

Yeah, I'm a Yid (by football not religious persuasion). It's funny that you met a Tottenham fan in Jordan. I bet if you broke out a bit of a 'YID ARMY' chant, you'd have been gunned down! I wonder what they do when they're watching the game and the crowd breaks out that chant? Or another favourite - clap, clap, clap-clap-clap 'YID'? I was at WHL last night (unfortunately) and there were plenty of blokes of middle eastern appearance joining in onb both of those chants (in fact I bought my ticket from a Pakistani-Englishman and last I heard, there weren't too many Jews in Pakistan!!!), so no doubt in England football is treated with higher regard than religion. Although a Spurs forum had numerous members banned for arguing over the terrorist status of both Hezbollah and the Israel State - idiots.

How did you go explaining rugby to a Jordanian? I'm an Aussie and I've got no idea how the game works . The best explaination I've heard so far is 'One man pushes two men's heads up three mens asses.' I didn;t want to hear any more after that!

[JAS]

Are Arsenal turkish???

I know your lot (going by your location) are the Yids. When I went to Jordan in 2002 for a hol I hired a guide for the trip and he proudly told me that he is a Tottenham fan...didn't have the heart (or guts) to tell an arab that his team are known as the Yids He then asked me who my team is and I spent the morning explaining rugby union

Regards
JAS

Nah, Arsenal are French HAHAHA.

Yeah, I'm a Yid (by football not religious persuasion). It's funny that you met a Tottenham fan in Jordan. I bet if you broke out a bit of a 'YID ARMY' chant, you'd have been gunned down! I wonder what they do when they're watching the game and the crowd breaks out that chant? Or another favourite - clap, clap, clap-clap-clap 'YID'? I was at WHL last night (unfortunately) and there were plenty of blokes of middle eastern appearance joining in onb both of those chants (in fact I bought my ticket from a Pakistani-Englishman and last I heard, there weren't too many Jews in Pakistan!!!), so no doubt in England football is treated with higher regard than religion. Although a Spurs forum had numerous members banned for arguing over the terrorist status of both Hezbollah and the Israel State - idiots.

How did you go explaining rugby to a Jordanian? I'm an Aussie and I've got no idea how the game works . The best explaination I've heard so far is 'One man pushes two men's heads up three mens asses.' I didn;t want to hear any more after that!

I reckon if anywhere out there would have Tottenham fans it's Jordan...seems the most tollerant Arab country and has a fair sized Jewish population of it's own. Btw my driver was the ubiquitous bloody Man U fan

The rugby thing wasn't as difficult as I thought. At least they'd seen some on TV but they reckoned the Mid East was too hot for it to catch on and soccer already has too big a following. But you never know they already have the Dubai Sevens as part of the World Series.

Back on topic I see Alaskan Airlines is a bit shakey now too but looks like the news outlets are bored with it all now. Too busy trying to convince us all the sky is falling and have us all do a run on our banks

Regards
JAS