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Meaningless Insurance Policy for air-passengers

Kashmir Times. Dated: 7/27/2017 11:40:01 PM

Dear Editor,
It is quite usual that passengers and travel-agents pay for optional insurance-premium while booking tickets for flights. Policies are issued totally irresponsibly with Legal-Heir printed as name of nominee. In case of accidents, even nominees may usually be not aware about the passenger having been covered by any insurance-cover for flights.
Even if hypothetically insurance-companies or airlines may be making public-announcements about insurance-covers of passengers in case of fatal accident, it is not necessary that legal heirs may look into such public-advertisements. Also disputes may arise in case of legal heirs of the insured being more than one. Moreover it can also be possible that insured passenger may be wishing that insurance-amount in case of death might be available to person other than legal heir.
Directorate of Civil Aviation and Department of Financial Services-Insurance have a duty to protect air-passengers from such loot and money-minting of collaborated airlines-company by having a totally meaningless insurance-policy for air-passengers by making it compulsory to print name and contact-detail of nominee after getting it from the insured passenger before charging insurance-premium. In case of non-furnishing of details of nominee, payment of insurance-premium must not be allowed to be charged.
—Madhu Agrawal,
1775 Kucha Lattushah Dariba Delhi.