I’m a financial expert… this is the airline to avoid if you want a refund after a flight cancellation

A financial expert has told how to ensure you have a stress-free holiday – and which airline to avoid.

Vivian Tu, who shares her smart advice under the username Your Rich BFF, offered some advice for those desperate to avoid flight delays or cancellations.

“All is not lost,” Vivian assured viewersadding that she will be showing people a “little tool” to help them recover from a canceled flight.

‘[The tool] will help you know what you deserve and what you are asking for from these airlines,” Vivian explained.

First, Vivian said to go to Google and search for the Department of Travel Dashboard.

The site, she explained, lists compensation available for various air travel issues.

“This dashboard is designed to give air travelers easy access to comparison information about the services the airlines should provide you in these scenarios when something bad happens to you,” she explained.

To access the information, go to the website and choose which airline you are flying with.

Vivian Tu, who shares her smart advice under the username Your Rich BFF, offered some advice for those desperate to avoid flight delays or cancellations (stock image)

She then instructed users to look at the left side of the site to see what you qualify for: meal vouchers, hotel accommodations or ground transportation as examples.

‘A quick scan [of the dashboard] tells me you should never fly Frontier,” she interjected.

“If you don’t know if you qualify for these things, the airlines often won’t just offer them,” she joked.

“Make sure you check the dashboard so you know what you owe and what you need to charge,” she urged.

‘Now that holiday travel is approaching, don’t let the airlines fool you! Find out what you are entitled to if your flight is delayed or cancelled!’ Vivian captioned the clip.

And it looks like flight delays are only getting worse as experts recently revealed a sneaky trick airlines are using to hide long delays, with the average flight duration significantly longer than it was 30 years ago.

Based on data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, planes flying from John F Kennedy International Airport (JFK) to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in 1995 were behind schedule 51 percent of the time.

Airlines have created the illusion of increased efficiency by adding ‘padding’ to their flight schedules.

Vivian suggests using the DoT Travel Dashboard, which provides an overview of compensation available for air travel issues (stock image)

In 2023, only 37 percent of flights were delayed, even though these journeys take longer than 28 years ago.

The average time of a gate departure delay in 1995 was eight minutes. In 2023, that average rose to 13 minutes.

Passenger trips from JFK to LAX in 1995 generally lasted five hours and twenty minutes. Planes remained in the air for about nine minutes in 2023.

Overall, the entire trip from New York to Los Angeles in 1995 was a six-hour ordeal. Last year, an extra 18 minutes were added to the average journey.

Ironically, airlines have experienced fewer delays by telling passengers that flights will take longer than necessary.