{"id":4336,"date":"2012-12-05T10:40:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T16:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.TripInsuranceStore.com\/blog\/?p=4336"},"modified":"2021-03-25T15:29:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:29:40","slug":"should-you-buy-trip-cancellation-insurance-for-just-airfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/should-you-buy-trip-cancellation-insurance-for-just-airfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Worth Buying Trip Insurance For a Domestic Flight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"right\"><a title=\"Subscribe to my Wall Street Journal Recommended Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/wCXYr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe<\/a><\/div>\n<p>If you have read <a title=\"TripInsuranceStore.com\" href=\"https:\/\/TripInsuranceStore.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TripInsuranceStore.com<\/a> including <a title=\"Wall Street Journal Recommended Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this blog<\/a>, you will see that I have no problem telling you when you should or should not get trip cancellation travel insurance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is It Worth Buying Trip Insurance For a Domestic Flight (in the USA)? The answer depends on what kind of a trip are you taking:<\/strong><\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"8\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr align=\"center\">\n<td colspan=\"2\"><strong>Examples of why You Should or Should Not get Trip Cancellation Travel Insurance for your Domestic Flight:<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">Your airfare is part of a larger trip that has more prepaid trip costs and is invoiced all together. ie &#8211; Getting the airfare from the travel supplier to get to a cruise, tour or lodging, etc.<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: red;\">Yes, get travel insurance<\/span> if you don&#8217;t want to lose that money if you are forced to cancel or interrupt your trip. And, if you need <a href=\"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/how-travel-insurance-pre-existing-medical-conditions-coverage-works\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pre-existing medical conditions coverage<\/a> most plans require you to include this cost.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">You made a mistake and bought the wrong plane ticket. You don&#8217;t want to pay the change fee to change the travel dates.<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: red;\">No, don&#8217;t get travel insurance<\/span>. Your mistake is not covered.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">You bought a plane ticket in the last few days and now there&#8217;s bad weather forecast. You want someone else to pay your extra costs if your flight is cancelled or delayed.<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><span style=\"color: red;\">No, don&#8217;t get travel insurance<\/span>. You won&#8217;t be covered. Read this to see what I mean: <a href=\"http:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/do-callers-think-we-were-born-yesterday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Do Callers Think We Were Born Yesterday?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe If you have read TripInsuranceStore.com including this blog, you will see that I have no problem telling you when you should or should not get trip cancellation travel insurance. Is It Worth Buying Trip Insurance For a Domestic Flight (in the USA)? The answer depends on what kind of a trip are you taking: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-travel-insurance-works","category-vent-spleen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tripinsurancestore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}