insurance for connecting flights

Leopardprint

Does anybody know of an insurance company that will cover our connecting flight. We can only find cover for the first flight to New York but not for the next flight to vegas. Afraid if our first flight is delayed it will mean we miss out connecting flight

coylemj

If your flights are on one booking then the airline will look after you. If you have booked two point to point flights with airlines that don't do interconnect (like Ryanair and Easyjet in Europe) then I don't think any travel policy covers this type of situation i.e. where you arrive late and you lose the onward flight because you count as a 'no show'.

I think you're only solution is to do the trip on one booking if you want to be covered.

Leopardprint

coylemj wrote: »

If your flights are on one booking then the airline will look after you. If you have booked two point to point flights with airlines that don't do interconnect (like Ryanair and Easyjet in Europe) then I don't think any travel policy covers this type of situation i.e. where you arrive late and you lose the onward flight because you count as a 'no show'.



I think you're only solution is to do the trip on one booking if you want to be covered.

Thanks for your reply. Our trip was booked as a whole through the one airline so hopefully they will help us if anything was to happen

VincePP

Leopardprint wrote: »

Thanks for your reply. Our trip was booked as a whole through the one airline so hopefully they will help us if anything was to happen

Then you'll have no problem whatsoever. - if you did arrive late and it was a fault of the airline, they simply put you on the next available flight. No hassle, no begging. Its almost automatic.

coylemj

VincePP wrote: »

Then you'll have no problem whatsoever. - if you did arrive late and it was a fault of the airline, they simply put you on the next available flight. No hassle, no begging. Its almost automatic.

It doesn't matter who's fault it is, for example if there was fog in the original airport so the first flight was delayed, they will still look after people who miss an onward connection if it's on the same booking.

Atlantic Dawn

On a side not make sure you do get travel insurance for your trip, any medical injury in US is mega money, get it now if you don't already have it.