so when does it pay folks to buy that travelers insurance and what will the summer airfare look like? a lot of big questions out there for fliers. joining us from dallas with the answers, rick, thanks for being here. appreciate it. great to be on. volcanic ash. truly has a bane of travelers this week. say, like most folks, you didn t buy travelers insurance and are stick stuck because of this vol can ish ash. what can do you? a couple things can you do. if you re in europe, a european passenger bill of rights that says, really, they should put you up. a big argument in europe right now. for instance, some of the airlines selling $20 don t want to put people up in hotels. a variety of other things. a big argument going on. in the u.s. typically it s called an act of god. really, the airlines don t have to do anything for you, except refund your ticket price and try to reaccommodate you when they can. you re left to your own devices. you re seeing so many
created equally. you need to read the fine print. i know a lot of people stuck in europe didn t read the fine print on travel instructions. you ve got to do. shop around, obviously, and we look towards the summer. people book tickets now. what are you seeing for summer airfares? we know the airlines that have lost billions because of this vol can ish ash issue will try to make up money somewhere. this week we ve already gotten a $20 round-trip hike for domestic airfares. it will stick as of yesterday. prices going up for dough mevg, i think, and a lot because some travelers have the jitters about going to europe and we ll see more traffic to canada and the u.s. right now if you re buying a ticket, you probably should wait, because all of the sales, saled fares are only good to the end of june travel to. wait a couple weeks if you want to go in july or august before you buy the tickets. the best time to look online for the tickets. what are they? really the best time, a tuesday,