Road Closed, Flight Missed - Insurance Cover?

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Because of a full lock-up, a vacationer misses her Hawaii flight - and has to pay 9,000 euros on it. Although she is insured, she does not get the money refunded. Why not?

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Because of a full lock-up, a vacationer misses her Hawaii flight - and has to pay 9,000 euros on it. Although she is insured, she does not get the money refunded. Why not?

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The Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt am Main has decided that a travel cancellation insurance does not have to pay for additional costs if a passenger has missed his flight due to a road closure.

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The Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main has ruled that travel cancellation insurance does not have to pay for additional costs if a passenger has missed their flight due to a road closure. The judges justified this by the fact that the plaintiff had not planned a sufficient safety cushion for unforeseen delays, the court announced on Wednesday. In the summer of 2023, the woman took off from Kiel at 4 o'clock in a rental car to Hamburg Air…