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Emirates bundles conflict cover into its new travel insurance
Emirates has launched a travel insurance policy, underwritten by Travel Guard, that pays out on conflict-related disruption — up to US$25,000 of medical cover, hotel costs during airspace closures and rebooking onto rival carriers — and, unusually, it applies regardless of government travel advisories. With Gulf airspace still unsettled, it is a pointed move to neutralise a booking objection the conflict had created, and a rare instance of an airline distributing war-exposed cover at scale across the GCC and beyond.
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Etihad and Abu Dhabi tourism hand inbound visitors free Daman medical cover
Etihad Airways, the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi and Daman (the National Health Insurance Company, part of PureHealth) are giving international visitors who fly in on Etihad complimentary medical cover for up to 15 days, bundled automatically into the ticket and running July to December. It hands Daman a large book of short-duration inbound lives and turns insurance into a destination-marketing instrument as Abu Dhabi chases peak-season arrivals.
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