There are 4 good reasons to purchase travel insurance when you make your first trip deposit: Most plans offer you extra benefits – the most important being the waiver of pre-existing conditions exclusion. Even though some plans will offer the waiver at final trip payment you have much bigger selection as well as cheaper plans…
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More Factors Adding to Travel Delay
While my last post touched on why travel delays are expected to get worse, there are a couple of other points worth mentioning concerning cuts in airline staff and rising “load capacity”. While airlines struggle to stay profitable they have been cutting back on staff and operating flights at 80-90 percent capacity, as opposed to…
Trend in Travel Delays Expected to Get Worse
A new airline quality study just released says the trend of bumped flights, lost bags and delayed flights has progressively gotten worse over the past three years and shows no signs of reversing: “We’re going to see more delays, and those delays translate to cancellations, mishandled bags and unhappy passengers,” said David Castelveter, spokesman for…
What happened on April 1, 1864?
What happened on April 1, 1864? The answer is that the first travel insurance company opened its doors on that day. The company was The Travelers Insurance Company and they were originally chartered to insure people traveling, hence the name The Travelers Insurance Company. I don’t know if James Batterson, the founder, ever envisioned in…
Good Advice from the Washington Post
The “Coming and Going” column from yesterday’s Washington Post offers good advice about checking out a travel enity before you do business with them. Another example where “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”