How your credit card company can help if traveling goes awry
How your credit card company can help if traveling goes awry
Fine print often taketh away, but sometimes it giveth.
In a busy travel week like this, it’s possible your cards could help you out if you get into a bind.
Mark Orlowski, a travel aficionado and the founder of a nonprofit called the Sustainable Endowments Institute, joined us to share some of the “hidden” benefits or services that credit card companies can provide if travel goes wrong:
- If your flight’s been delayed for a certain amount of hours, some cards will cover necessary expenses. For example, you could get reimbursed for the cost of an overnight hotel.
- Check to see if your credit card company offers lost baggage reimbursement.
- Some will also reimburse you over delayed baggage. If you purchased merchandise to compensate for any late items, your credit card company could cover those expenses.
- Thought not all will, there are companies that will still provide benefits like these if you use a third-party booking site.
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