{"id":909149,"date":"2026-09-29T00:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T00:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/909149\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T00:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T00:10:12","slug":"major-australian-banks-cut-credit-card-insurance-and-travel-perks-the-canberra-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/909149\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Australian banks cut credit card insurance and travel perks | The Canberra Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banks are scaling back travel insurance and frequent flyer points, but airport lounge access remains one travel perk on offer.<\/p>\n<p>Westpac is introducing a new Flight Delay Access Pass, so if a flight is delayed by two hours or more, the cardholder and up to four other people get a complimentary lounge access pass.<\/p>\n<p>The Commonwealth Bank is keeping its two free airport lounge passes each year on the Ultimate card, while NAB is adding two complimentary passes to its Rewards Travel Card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Banks are scaling back travel insurance and frequent flyer points, but airport lounge access remains one travel perk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":909150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-909149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}