Is travel insurance worth it? - NBCNewsBETTER
, but before you can checkout, the airline’s website pushes you to spend a little more to buy travel insurance to protect against delays and cancellation fees.
Choose no and you’ll be reminded that “Your flight is not protected. Over $43.5 million worth of trips were cancelled in 2017 without insurance,” along with the opportunity to “reconsider” to avoid change fees and “protect your trip.”a recent analysis by Checkbook.org“It’s bizarre.
Nonrefundable prepaid costs if you cancel your trip due to illness, death, employment termination or the need to stay home to care for a sick family member. The policies sold on most airline and booking websites often have dozens of “gotchas,” Checkbook found, which are typically disclosed in documents that run 15-20 pages.Trip cancellation due to a preexisting medical condition, pregnancy or childbirth, or if there’s “any problem or event that could have reasonably been foreseen or expected” when you purchase the ticket.
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