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Trip Delay Cover in Travel Insurance: Flight Delay Payouts
Compensation when flights run late.
In shortTrip delay cover pays a fixed amount, or reimburses reasonable expenses, when your flight is delayed beyond a stated number of hours. It exists to cover the meals, refreshments and unplanned hotel night that a long airport wait forces on you, and it turns entirely on the waiting period in your wording.
The full guide covers
- How the trigger works
- Covered causes, and the ones that catch people out
- What the airline owes you separately
- Making the claim
- Fixed benefit or reimbursement — which is better
- Where the delay benefit stops and others begin