shearsense
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Recently got my new EarthBlack card and while flicking through T&Cs in a moment of boredom, I noticed this paragraph relating to the complementary travel insurance:
"Cardholders, become eligible for this Overseas travel insurance when, before leaving Australia on an overseas journey, they have a return overseas travel ticket, and A$500 of their prepaid travel costs (i.e. costs of their return overseas travel ticket; and/or airport/departure taxes; and/or their prepaid overseas accommodation/travel; and/or their other prepaid overseas itinerary items) have been charged to the cardholder’s eligible credit card account"
In at least one early version of the T&Cs from a year or two back, the eligibility previously was related to paying for the tickets on the card. Now this seems to be worded that if any part of the pre-trip-related expenses reaches $500 (per person) then the traveller is covered. So the consequence of this is that you don't actually have to buy the actual ticket on the card to be covered. There may be reasons why one wouldn't pay for the ticket on the card (such as if somebody else is paying or for the purposes of earning points elsewhere), so I think this is a win for some. I am not sure how long this has been the case, though.
"Cardholders, become eligible for this Overseas travel insurance when, before leaving Australia on an overseas journey, they have a return overseas travel ticket, and A$500 of their prepaid travel costs (i.e. costs of their return overseas travel ticket; and/or airport/departure taxes; and/or their prepaid overseas accommodation/travel; and/or their other prepaid overseas itinerary items) have been charged to the cardholder’s eligible credit card account"
In at least one early version of the T&Cs from a year or two back, the eligibility previously was related to paying for the tickets on the card. Now this seems to be worded that if any part of the pre-trip-related expenses reaches $500 (per person) then the traveller is covered. So the consequence of this is that you don't actually have to buy the actual ticket on the card to be covered. There may be reasons why one wouldn't pay for the ticket on the card (such as if somebody else is paying or for the purposes of earning points elsewhere), so I think this is a win for some. I am not sure how long this has been the case, though.