It’s a scene repeated all too often these days. Your initial flight is delayed, forcing you to miss your connecting flight.

Then, all the other connecting flights to get you to your destination are full, and you’re stuck at your intermediate airport with nowhere to go.

Here’s a tactic that many travelers are now using.

In addition to their original ticket and flight itinerary, they are then booking an additional, full fare, refundable one-way ticket on a later connecting flight.

If they’re late, they are protected on that other connecting flight. And if they’re on time, they simply refund the full-fare ticket.