Travel insurance automatically being added at time of booking flights

Tue, 30 Jun 2009

Some airlines are automatically adding travel insurance at the time of booking flights and some are not clearly showing the insurance restrictions or exclusions, according to Which? Holiday .

Even though European law states that airlines cannot automatically add extras, such as travel insurance, at the time time of making a flight booking, Which? Holiday have found at least 4 airlines to be doing so.

Travel insurance is being added for each passenger booking a flight by Easyjet, Jet2 and Monarch and Air Berlin is adding cancellation insurance for flights returning the same day. These airlines include a ‘tick box’ which is initially ticked to indicate that travel insurance is required, which is against European Law . This box has to be unticked to opt out.

Editor of Which? Holiday, Lorna Cowan, said: " Buying insurance at the same time as your flights may seem like an easy and convenient option. But if you’ve already got an insurance policy, or it doesn’t provide the right amount of cover for you, it’s as useless as no cover at all."
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