Travel insurance policies to include air rage cover
Tuesday, 30 Nov 2004 15:32
Travel insurance can now cover air rage incidents
The first UK travel insurance cover to protect against the physical and mental effects of being caught in an air rage incident has been launched.
It comes as a new report highlights the growth in air rage incidents, which are reportedly being fuelled by excessive alcohol consumption and a ban on in-flight smoking.
The number of officially recorded air rage incidents on UK flights has risen from 580 in 2000/01 to 696 last year.
Between 2002/03 and 2003/04, incidents rose by 7.4 per cent. Around 15 per cent of incidents involve actual physical violence.
Chubb Insurance has therefore launched the new policy to cover people against the increasing risk of air rage.
Chubb's head of personal insurance in Europe, John Sims, said: "We commissioned this report to evaluate the risks our clients face when they travel by air.
"This report paints an all too vivid picture of how alcohol combined with a range of other factors associated with modern air travel can create a volatile cocktail of emotions."