Airlines announce plans to cut flights

The airlines have given us yet another reason why you should never travel without trip insurance. Below is a list of popular carriers and the percentage of flights they are planning to cancel this season.

AirTran Airways: Plans for capacity to fall 7 percent to 8 percent between September and December.
Alaska Airlines: Its parent company has said the carrier’s fourth-quarter mainline capacity will be cut by 5 percent compared with 2007.
American Airlines: Plans to cut its U.S. flying by up to 12 percent after the busy summer travel season ends.
Continental Airlines: Its plans include reducing flights in the U.S. this fall by about 10 percent.
Delta Air Lines: It has said it intends to cut domestic capacity by 13 percent during the second half of the year. A spokeswoman said a good portion of that would come during the fall.
JetBlue Airways: It has said it expects September capacity to be down 10 percent and does not expect to grow next year.
Northwest Airlines: It is planning to cut fourth-quarter consolidated domestic capacity by 7 percent to 8 percent.
United Airlines: Fourth-quarter mainline domestic capacity will shrink 16 percent compared with the previous year.US Airways: It will reduce capacity 6 percent to 8 percent on domestic flights in the fourth quarter.
Source: The Associated Press

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British Travel Company Collapses:

September 12, 2008. British Travel Company Collapses

SOURCE:Air Security International

Spokesmen at XL Leisure Group Plc announced the company has gone into administration on 12 September 2008, stranding thousands of travelers around the world. British Civil Aviation Administration officials stated that approximately 89,000 travelers who used the XL airline and travel agency will need to make other travel arrangements as the company will be unable to continue operating. An announcement on the XL Website cited rising fuel costs and a slowing economy as reasons for the financial collapse. XL Airways officials announced that all scheduled flights have been canceled and the company's aircraft will be unable to operate. TUI Travel Plc, a rival tour company based in Europe, announced that the firm will try to assist stranded travelers with making alternate travel plans.

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Fish to the face? Yeah, we cover that, too...

So you're getting ready to take your trip, and you might be thinking you don't need trip insurance. It's a short trip, you're in good health, what's the worst that could happen?

Well, that's what trip insurance is for; to cover those unforeseen occurrences. The stuff you never thought would happen. Take for example, the story of Seth Russel, courtesy of the Associated Press:

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas - A teenager's jaw was broken when a fish flew from the lake where he was riding in an inner tube and smacked him in the face.
Seth Russell, 15, was cruising Lake Chicot in Arkansas on a large inner tube towed by a boat when a Silver Asian carp leaped from the water and hit him in the face. Seth was knocked unconscious.
"He doesn't remember anything at all," the boy's mother, Linda Russell, said last week. "He was laughing, and the next thing he remembers, he is waking in a hospital."

The teen has had oral surgery to wire several teeth together and still experiences back pain that doctors attribute to whiplash from the high-speed collision, his mother said.

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