Originally Posted by
Eujeanie
I always just click NO so never really thought about this.
Does the Alaska Airlines Visa have travel protection? I know the Amex I use for MOST of my trips on AS does. However, with the stipulation that if you are using a Companion Fare means you MUST use your AS Visa to purchase the tickets, I wonder if that would change things?
I have enough status on my hotel choices that even if I'm past the XL deadline, they let me cancel. And as long as I cancel my AS flight before take-off it goes back into my wallet. I'd say even with a companion fare I'd say no.
This reminds me when I first started traveling in the early 70's (yes, I'm that old). We would ALWAYS buy those insurance policies from the vending machines in the airports. They were mostly for death (IIRC) but we were so superstitious that we "knew" they were keeping our plane from crashing.
No travel insurance on the AS card AFAIK. Same with all the other ~$100 cobranded cards for various US carriers.
This is also one of the problems with those gift cards that everyone loves buying from Costco (the other problem is, no travel category bonus miles, which essentially negates the 10% discount)
If you have a good travel credit card (Amex Plat, CSR) these are much better choices IMO.
In the past, with AS, they have treated me very well when things have gone badly, so I haven't actually needed to use my travel insurance. But that was pre-covid and I'm not sure how strict they are now.
Surprisingly, AS is the only carrier where I've ever had significant disruptions (delayed several hours or overnight). It's never come up for when when flying internationally, or on AA or UA (which is total luck, I'm sure)