A bit of this and a bit of that

So, it’s been a week since I wrote to RyanAir and FlyBe about our cancelled flights and subsequent re-routing costs, and haven’t really heard anything yet. Well, it was only a few days, so I suppose I wasn’t really expecting anything just yet; but we’re currently almost £1000 out of pocket, so the sooner we hear something the better.

Our travel insurance was with Direct Line and that proved to be useless. They classified our predicament as a “delay” and offered us £20 per 12 hours delay it took to our destination. We couldn’t even buy a sandwich each with that sort of cash. We really have insurance to cover us for lost luggage mostly (not that we fly around with Christian Louboutin or anything like that, but you know how annoying it is to lose all your belongings), but it would have been nice if the insurance covered flight cancellations too. Maybe I should be looking for a different insurance …