I like to choose an airline that is actually going to fly.. Not get delayed for hours and then cancelled, or worse, brought forward and not being advised of it. Only once have I had Qantas be delayed and it was only for 20 minutes..

“In case a flight is cancelled and the airline is unable to offer another flight within a reasonable time, do you offer your insurance policies that cover expenses for flying with another airline?”

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Worldcare

4 ADDITIONAL EXPENSES
WE WILL ALSO PAY FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS:

We will reimburse your reasonable additional travel and accommodation expenses if a disruption to your journey arises from the following reasons.

a] Your scheduled or connecting transport is cancelled, delayed, shortened or diverted because of a strike, riot, hijack, civil commotion, weather or natural disaster.

4.2 WE WILL NOT PAY

e] We will not pay for delays or rescheduling by a bus line, airline, shipping line or rail authority.
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Travel Insurance Direct

There is no provision to claim under this policy if the airline has caused the delay through rescheduling, maintenance/repairs/faults industrial action other than a strike or corporate takeover.
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1Cover

This depends on the reason the flight was cancelled. If it is cancelled or delayed because of strikes, riots, hijack, civil commotion, natural disaster or weather conditions then we will cover your alternative transport costs. However the cancellation is the fault of the airline, for example mechanical breakdown, or other booking issues, you will not be covered.

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Columbus Direct Travel Insurance

Unfortunately we do not have a cover for cancelled flights under our policies.

We do cover cancellation; however you would need to be cancelling the entire trip, rather than just a flight.

I am glad that you going to write a post about Travel Insurances. I look forward to reading it.

Thank you for your insight into this situation, I’m not sure if this scenario would be exclusive to Tiger’s operations, however I would like to write a future post on travel insurance if it generally does not cover operational delays as you state above. interesting!

I am glad if you could let me know of a travel insurance company that covers for the 2nd case above.

This is not much of an issue if they can give a alternative flight with a reasonable amount of time. With Tiger, unfortunately, this could be days. The whole reason for flying with a “No Frills” airline is to save money. With Tiger, however, there is a considerable risk that we could end up in situation that is not covered by travel insurances and have to fork out a lot of money to buy last minute tickets from other airlines.

I checked with heaps of Travel Insurances companies and none of them cover if an airline cancels or reschedules a flight due to operational or technical reasons.

On the contrary, most of them DO cover against weather or unforseen actions like strikes or terrorism.

Tiger Airways had a fleet size of 7 aircraft as of March 2009.

Delays can happen regardless of carrier – if in doubt, consider purchasing travel insurance. Comprehensive travel insurance should cover you against any delay, for any sensible reason (except things like military action and terrorism, of course), however the delay has either jeopardise you arriving on time to an event (eg. meeting), or be significant (eg. more than 6 hours). Check the product disclosure statement for details.

Yes, it is slightly more likely that you may incur an issue when flying Tiger, however this has to be weighed against the price of the fare. If you’re purchasing a lazy weekend away for $56 return, Tiger is pretty hard to pass up on. Happy travels!

The unenclosed Arrivals space would have been fine if it were good weather. But this is Melbourne, after all.

I think I would pretty much rule out Tiger for taller people – cheers for your comment on that!