Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
So those pilots you know: presumably they had the assets of a Skase or Bond overseas to support their lifestyle, and never plan to come back?
You keep missing the bit about the required insurance cover for the QAL airports being unobtainable.
Only the war insurance is generally something that is not insured, liability for $25mil US is obtainable for anything, given a price. I suggest you speak to QBE or such and find out what it costs, airlines carry it, so I'm sure it would exist, I've never had to carry that personally so no idea, but liability insurance just depends on what the risk is, if its low the price is very low, as with travel insurance. Start saying you're a smoking 70 year old with a heart condition and travel will need to be self insured. Liability needs are such a low risk for the average punter than its really not that expensive, hence why it's tacked onto house insurance for virtually nothing.