ryanm

I have to have some serious oral surgery, which makes me nervous about a TATL trip 20 days later. (Pockets of air in recent surgery sites can cause excruciating pain in flight.)

Would anyone recommend the travel insurance DL offers? I've noticed it's still available on my reservation, and might be an option if the oral surgeon thinks it would still be too risky to fly.

Alternately, I could get a back-up reservation for 5 or 10 days after my current reservation. Right now, as noted in another thread, there's low-level availability to Europe. I could see how I'm doing and then either cancel the award ticket or change the dates entirely to the paid ticket.

I believe the costs are $250 for insurance; $150 as GM for canceling an award ticket; $150 for changing a paid ticket, plus changes in fare.

Thoughts? And if I did end up just changing the existing reservation, does it matter if both dates change as long as the airports stay the same?

Also, does anyone know of a good online dental discussion site?! I'm pretty freaked out about this procedure and would like to get some others' thoughts.

MSPeconomist

Most travel insurance policies exclude pre-existing conditions. I would assume that the version sold be DL has this provision, although you might be able to read the contract and check before purchase. If you're going to get travel insurance, at least comaprison shop for it; what DL offers impresses me as being overpriced.

ryanm

Thanks--you're right about that, which I hadn't thought of before.

TheRoadie

International change fees are $250, $150 only for domestic.

fti

Actually many travel insurance policies do cover pre-existing conditions, but only if the policy is purchased within a short time frame after booking (usually something like within 14 days of your first trip payment, which is usually for the flight).

$250 for insurance? That seems very high. I pay less than that for an annual policy. Try insuremytrip.com to compare various policies.