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DELAYED FLIGHT ASSISTANCE

Delayed Flight Assistance with Saga Travel Insurance

Delayed Flight Assistance is an exclusive benefit that’s included as standard for Saga Travel Insurance policyholders. It gives you access to an airport lounge if your flight is delayed by over an hour, so you can relax in peace while you wait for your flight to board.

Who can use this service?

You and up to four additional passengers on the same journey can use the service.

Most lounges provide benefits such as:

  • Complimentary snacks and refreshments
  • Free newspapers and magazines
  • Free Wi-Fi and device charging stations
  • Conference and business facilities.

How our delayed flight assistance works

If you have a Saga Travel Insurance policy

  1. Take advantage of this service by registering your flight.
  2. Flight registration must take place no later than 6 hours prior to a flight’s scheduled departure. You will need to register any additional or return flights separately. A flight is defined as a single scheduled airline flight under a single flight number. You will receive a confirmation email to acknowledge your registration.
  3. You can cancel registrations up until 2 hours before flight departure.
  4. In the event of a flight delay announcement of an hour or more, we’ll immediately send you an email with your complimentary airport lounge access vouchers. Service restrictions apply, please check T&Cs..
Register your flight

Register your flight

Enter your details on the form below to register your flight.

Delayed Flight Assistance terms and conditions

1. Providers of the Delayed Flight Assistance service

Delayed Flight Assistance is arranged by Saga Services Limited (we/us/our throughout this document). Delayed Flight Assistance is provided on behalf of Saga Services Limited by Collinson Insurance Services Limited. This agreement becomes valid on 14/02/18. By entering into this agreement, you confirm that you are legally capable of entering into a binding contract and you are at least 18 years old. You also agree with our privacy policy.

2. Eligibility

Delayed Flight Assistance is available to Saga Travel Insurance customers and up to four additional passengers on the same journey. To access this service you must register for Delayed Flight Assistance.

Delayed Flight Assistance is provided at our discretion and only selected scheduled commercial flights are eligible for registration.

3. How to use Delayed Flight Assistance

You will become eligible for Delayed Flight Assistance if you register your flight at least 6 hours before the scheduled departure time. We reserve the right not to provide Delayed Flight Assistance if you fail to accurately register your details or the details of your travel companion[s].

The departure of your flight will be monitored by our flight tracking system. Subject to successful prior registration and lounge availability, Delayed Flight Assistance will provide you and up to 4 travel companions with airport lounge access by email in the event that our flight tracking system identifies that your flight is delayed by over an hour (the Delay Threshold). You will also receive an SMS to notify you of such emails. Access to the email account you provided at registration and the ability to display your lounge access email is a condition of use of the Delayed Flight Assistance.

A delay that matches or exceeds the Delay Threshold can be announced as one single period of delay or can be reached as a consequence of multiple incremental shorter delays.

We will rely solely on our flight tracking system to determine if you have become eligible for airport lounge access. You accept that we do not warrant the accuracy of the flight tracking system and you will not rely on it to track your flight departure time.

Only the individual and travel companion(s) named in the Delayed Flight Assistance email confirmation will be eligible to airport lounge access.

Delayed Flight Assistance is provided to you and your travel companion on a non-transferable, non-refundable and non-changeable basis.

By accessing the airport lounge, you and your travel companion(s) agree to abide by the rules and policies of the lounge. See the full terms and conditions for lounge access.

You and your travel companion(s) acknowledge that additional dining options and business or conference facilities available to lounge guests may be subject to additional charges. You and your travel companion(s) will remain solely liable for such charges. We will not be held liable for such charges howsoever rising.

4. Price and payment

This service is free. Saga Services Limited reserves the right to charge a fee or amend the fee from time to time.

5. Liability

If we fail to comply with these terms and conditions, we shall only be liable for the issuance of a participating lounge access replacement voucher. Replacement vouchers are non-refundable and cannot be exchanged for cash. For the avoidance of doubt, we shall not be liable to reimburse you for any out of pocket costs or expenses or lounge access costs incurred by you at the airport should you choose to access the lounge at your own cost.

We will not be liable for losses resulting from our failure to comply with these terms and conditions that fall into the following categories:

  • loss of income or revenue;
  • loss of business;
  • loss of profits; or
  • loss of anticipated savings.

We will not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform, or delay in performance of, any of our obligations under these Terms that is caused by an event outside our control. An event outside our control means any act or event beyond our reasonable control, including without limitation, strikes, lock-outs or other industrial action by third parties, civil commotion, riot, invasion, terrorist attack or threat of terrorist attack, war (whether declared or not) or threat or preparation for war, fire, explosion, storm, flood, earthquake, subsidence, epidemic or other natural disaster, or failure of public or private telecommunications networks.

Nothing in this agreement excludes or limits our liability for:

  • death or personal injury caused by our negligence;
  • fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
  • any breach of the obligations implied by section 12 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 or section 2 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982; or
  • any other matter for which it would be illegal for us to exclude or attempt to exclude our liability.

Where you use the services of any participating airport lounge, any losses or liability arising out of, or in connection with using such lounge shall be the liability of the participating lounge. We will not participate in any dispute between you and any participating lounge.

We do not give any warranty for any goods or services accessed through the participating lounges.

You agree that you will defend and indemnify Collinson Service Solutions Limited, us, and our companies, directors, officers, employees and agents (collectively ’the indemnified parties’) against and hold each indemnified party harmless from all liabilities, damages, losses, claims, suits, judgments, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) for injury to or death of any person or damage to or destruction of any property arising out of the use of Delayed Flight Assistance by you, except that such indemnification shall not extend to acts of gross negligence or wilful misconduct by the indemnified parties.

6. Term and cancellation

The term of this agreement will end and the service will be revoked if your travel insurance policy is cancelled.

If you cancel your Saga Travel Insurance subsequent to your use of the Delayed Flight Assistance service, we reserve the right to charge you for the retail value of the lounge access.

7. Notices

You accept that communication with us will mainly be electronic. For contractual purposes, you agree to this electronic means of communication and you acknowledge that all contracts, notices, information and other communications that we provide to you electronically comply with any legal requirement that such communications be in writing. This condition does not affect your statutory rights.

You should be aware that access to your email may be subject to a local internet access charge depending on your own individual arrangements for Internet access. You agree that you will be solely responsible for any expenses incurred for your access to the Delayed Flight Assistance service.

8. Right to amend and revoke this agreement

We have the right to amend or terminate this agreement with immediate effect at any time.

9. The customer service

If you have a complaint about any aspect of Delayed Flight Assistance, please call: 0800 056 9200 or write to: Customer Relations Department, Saga Services Limited, PO Box 253, Seaham DO, SR7 1BN.

Upon receiving a customer complaint we will confirm a final response or let you know when a final response can be expected. Our aim is to get things right, first time every time. If we make a mistake we will try to put it right promptly.

10. Other important terms

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these Terms to another organisation, and we will always notify you in writing if this happens, but this will not affect your rights or our obligations under these Terms.

This contract is between you and us. No other person shall have any rights to enforce any of its terms.

Each of the paragraphs of these Terms operates separately. If any court or relevant authority decides that any of them are unlawful, the remaining paragraphs will remain in full force and effect.

If we fail to insist that you perform any of your obligations under these Terms, or if we do not enforce our rights against you, or if we delay in doing so, that will not mean that we have waived our rights against you and will not mean that you do not have to comply with those obligations. If we do waive a default by you, we will only do so in writing, and that will not mean that we will automatically waive any later default by you.

These terms are governed by English law. You and we both agree to submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts.