Insurance is essentially a way to financially protect ourselves. Whether it's life insurance or non-life insurance, the goal is to mitigate risk, assign value to our assets (whether they are life-related or not), and secure them through entities like insurance agents or companies.
An insurance policy is a contract created by the insurer, detailing the coverage, terms, and conditions. It ensures that the insured (the person receiving coverage) will be compensated for any covered losses. To obtain this coverage, the insured must pay a set amount, called the premium. In short, insurance is the process of protecting ourselves from unforeseen financial losses through providers known as insurers.
Likewise air travel insurance (airline travel insurance) is also intended to cover the financial risk that one can obtain while traveling through air. This air travel insurance coverage help to protect your trip investment from the uncertain and unforeseen risk that may interrupt your flight. And the risk coverage are flight accident, trip cancellation, medical expenses which can be per-occurrence or upto maximum-limit, luggage lost or any other losses that can be occurred during your air travel either domestically or internationally and these risk coverage are exactly during your air trip time and not before or after.
You can insure your air travel at the time of booking your ticket/trip and it can be either single trip or multiple trip insurance policies. In single trip policy, the risk coverage is only for your particular trip which covers exactly the duration of your single trip and multi trip policy cover your multiple trips within a certain period of time. Travel insurance basically covers cancellations, evacuations, medical expenses, losses or delays and 24/7 assistance.
Major risks covered by the air travel insurance:
These are the coverages which you can get on your regular premium cost.
- Trip cancellation.
- Trip interruption.
- Emergency Evacuation and repatriations
- Damage or lost of baggage, travel documents and any other personal belongings.
- Delay of baggage
- Flight delay due to weather or airline’s rescheduling or delay.
- Overseas funeral expenses
- Return of a minor
- Flight accident
- Accidental death
- Injury or disability
- Flight hijacking
- Flight connection missing due to airline rescheduling or delay.
- Health insurance.
- Medical emergencies which covers medical transportation to the medical treatments and facilities.
- 24 hour assistance, where you can call in emergency or have any medical issues, stolen baggage, lost passports, cancelled flights and so on.
Additional risks covered by the air travel insurance:
These are the coverages which you can get on paying additional premium cost and varies on insurer’s insurance policy and service providing guidelines. They may be air travel life insurance covering accidental death or disability, pre occurring medical conditions, rental car collision, identity theft while traveling, hazardous sports (like scuba diving, mountain climbing), travel to high risk countries like war, terrorism or natural calamities, etc.
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References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel_insurance
FYI: This post was first published on 25 August 2017 and updated at 7 April 2025.
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