What Travelers Heading to Australia Need to Know About Wildfires and Travel Insurance
It Is Too Late to Buy a Policy with Coverage for Wildfires
Travelers with pre-planned trips to
While policies can still be purchased to provide cancellation coverage and other benefits for future, unrelated events, they must be completely independent of the current fires, which are expected to continue over the next month.
If You Already Purchased a Policy, You May be Covered to Cancel Your Trip
Most cancellation-style travel insurance policies include coverage for natural disasters, including wildfires. Travelers who had a travel insurance policy in place before the fires began, may be covered to cancel. For this situation specifically, it can be hard to identify a singular cutoff date as there are multiple fires, so insurance providers may take the stance that they became a foreseen event when the fires were widely known about as early as October.
In order for a traveler to be reimbursed by their policy, their trip must be reasonably impacted or prevented - specifically, their accommodations must be rendered uninhabitable due to the fire damage or evacuation orders, or they must be unable to reach their destination entirely, due to evacuation, an airport closure or smoke in the area, preventing inbound flights. Travelers with future trips to
If You Recently Booked Your Trip, Cancel for Any Reason Upgrade May Be Available
For travelers who booked their trip within the last three weeks, there is one option available if they want to be able to cancel their trip. The Cancel for Any Reason upgrade is time sensitive and only available within 21 days of the first trip booking. This upgrade costs 40% more than a typical cancellation policy and will only reimburse up to 75% of their trip cost, but it is the only option that allows travelers to cancel if they no longer want to go on their trip.
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