Daily Roundup--January 20, 2012

Southwest Airlines has named six more cities that will be dropped from AirTran’s routemap this August.

Carnival, the owner or the Costa Concordia, says it will conduct a “a comprehensive audit and review of all safety and emergency response procedures” across all nine of its brands.

When you travel outside your home country, do you take out travel health and medical evacuation insurance? Or do you at least check to see if your own health insurance will cover you?

Comments

[Paula Bag Lass]

Don't need to take out insurance for medical abroad, my work's plan covers that.

[Mike]

My insurance will cover me abroad, but I've bought medical insurance a few times when travelling to third world countries, to cover possible medical evacuation. The times I can remember are when we went to Southeast Asia, as I wasn't sure about the hospitals in Cambodia and Vietnam; and when we went to the Galapagos islands, where there is no hospital. I also got it for my wife when she was pregnant and we went to Europe, although I don't think I got it for myself that time.

[tcl]

Always health ins but not always medical evac ins depending on the country's healthcare system & facilities.