>> Book a package is pretty trite advice. Apart from anything else the difference is actually
>> not as clear as it looks.
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>> Appreciate cover may not be needed in the business market but there's a cost in
>> operating repatriation flights for Monarch and now TCX. Not sure airline failure is insurable under
>> standard travel policy - cannot see insurers being too keen to cover TCX in last
>> few weeks or MON after it came within hours of failing 12 months before the
>> final closure.
>>
>> As to practicality simply incorporate it into APD?
>>
The cost of repatriation will be covered by the scheme already in place, and, as far I can see will cost nowhere near £600m since only 150,000 are from the UK. Doesn’t that work out at £4k per passenger? I’ve just paid a little more than that for 2 return BA Club World tickets to Singapore next month en-route Japan for the rugby. Could have travelled for less via the middle east or China, but you know what, I did my research and didn’t think the saving worthwhile. Could have spent more and flown direct...
Even if it does need to cover the 450,000 that didn’t leave from the UK then the CAA has an insurance policy AFAIK?
Worth thinking through more... as some, albeit a smallish proportion, of the saving in ex E.U. flights is avoiding the long haul APD ex UK, which from memory can be £170 a ticket. That’s almost £700 for a family of 4, so you can easily imagine someone booking a holiday online to the Far East and ending up picking a flight via an intermediate E.U. airport. Who rescues them when the Eastern European or Asian airline lets them down. Are you saying the CAA has to underwrite airline failures worldwide on behalf of UK citizens...? All for an increase in APD on the E.U. leg only?
Or to stretch an analogy a bit thin... I known virtually nothing about fixing cars. So, you know what, I don’t bother buying cars that have a reputation for being unreliable, or rely on ones that are old. If I needed to, I’d take out a breakdown policy. I wouldn’t expect the government to put a levy on all car sales to fund a breakdown service to recover me just because I hadn’t bothered ;)
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