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Aideen Finnegan

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Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

Would you expect any of them to start cancelling at this point?

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

OK, I did read about a low cost Spanish regional airline.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

I'm going to try and pronounce it now.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

Bolotea has come under fire for saying it'll add a surcharge to tickets.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

And they're fighting that, the local consumer rights group there.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

Can you see a kind of sneaky surcharges coming onto flights today?

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

OK, fair enough.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

I suppose the logical thing to discuss then is travel insurance.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

Can you buy insurance that will cover the cost of you losing your holiday if one leg of the flight or all of the flights are cancelled?

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

Yeah.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

And what should you look out for in the T's and C's then in those cases?

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

In really opaque language as well.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

Okay.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

And you always recommend taking it out almost as soon as you book your flights or accommodation, don't you?

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

What will it pay out for?

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

So we'll say, you know, one leg of your journey is cancelled.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

Yeah.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

But then that means you can't get to your accommodation because you can't get another flight or, you know.

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

So will that cover the cost of you losing the accommodation as well?

Better With Money
Flights, car hire and the airport 'golden hour': Conor Pope's guide to holiday spending traps

So, OK, on the topic then of travel agents or tour operators, do you still need cover then?