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Travel Insurance Warning: No Ash Coverage Anymore | WSJ

I’ve offered repeated warnings over the years about the limits of travel insurance. Travelers often think they have coverage when exclusions and exemptions nullify coverage for the very events they wanted to protect against.

And so it is with the volcanic ash crisis. As of April 13, travel insurance policies generally stopped covering the disruption that resulted from the ash cloud from Iceland.

via blogs.wsj.com

Video - Is the Deal Real? 5 ways to avoid travel fraud | abc7

Seventy-four percent of recent survey respondents say they plan to travel in 2010 but only if they can find a good deal. Unfortunately, sometimes the good deal is too good to be true as travel scams cost consumers over $10 billion each year, according the Better Business Bureau.  via abclocal.go.com

 

Low airfares that vanish in a click | Sun-Sentinel.com

The above is a photo of Chris Elliott taken from his website Elliott.org. He is a great consumer advocate for the traveling public. I'm considering featuring stories from Chris on this site.  Let me know if you dissagree. TB

Chris Elliott -- The Travel Troubleshooter

Now you see it. Now you don't. When you're airfare shopping, attractive prices can vanish in a split second. Just ask Jim Doll, a systems engineer in Atlanta, who recently tried to buy a ticket to San Francisco on AirTran Airways' Web site. He found a one-way fare for just $130, but by the time he'd toggled over to Orbitz.com to see if he could do better there and then clicked back, the price had changed.

via www.sun-sentinel.com