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Old Jun 30, 2015 | 4:03 am
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Originally Posted by Often1
3. It is far from "lecturing" for others to raise the travel insurance issue. First, OP may have travel insurance and be focused in the wrong place. Second, others gain valuable insight when problems repeat themselves. If OP does not have travel insurance, having had two recent tough experiences, perhaps he will obtain it. Others in OP's situation may choose to purchase it. Indeed this would have been easy if OP had travel insurance. Presuming relatively common terms (always worth reading carefully), he would have been reimbursed for his Qantas ticket and the insurance carrier would deal with CX.
It is "lecturing" because it is a moot point. How do you retroactively buy travel insurance? It is like telling someone who dropped the eggs that they should have bought a carrier for it.
And plus, travel insurance isn't always best. I've travelled loads without, and done fine. How much money have I saved?
It isn't quite so simple as the airlines' advertise (with that quote from Frommers that states travel insurance is always the best idea).
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