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### Separate tickets save money

Booking two flights independently can save hundreds. It's a smart move — right up until the first one is late.

### And airlines won't help

When you're on separate tickets, each airline is only responsible for its own flight. If your first flight is delayed, you're buying a new ticket out of pocket — at same-day prices.

## A clearer fallback for separate-ticket delays

Separate-ticket trips fall through the gap between airlines and traditional travel insurance. LayoverGuard gives you a fixed payout if your first flight is delayed past your threshold — automatically, no claim needed.

How Separate Tickets Work

The math can be brutal: a $180 fare saving can turn into a $600 same-day ticket. If your first flight is late, the next airline usually does not have to rebook you because the flights were booked separately.

LayoverGuard doesn't eliminate the risk. It means you're not absorbing the full cost alone — and you knew that before you booked.

## Three steps. No paperwork. No ambiguity.

Simple rules, itinerary-based thresholds, and a fixed payout if your first flight is delayed past the threshold.

1

### Enter your flights

Add both flights, even if they are booked separately or on different airlines.

2

### See your threshold

For each itinerary, LayoverGuard calculates the first-flight delay threshold that would trigger the payout.

3

### We detect it. You get paid.

We track your first flight in real time. If the delay crosses your threshold, the payout triggers automatically — no form, no receipt, no back-and-forth.

### You know the rules before you buy.

Your delay threshold and payout amount are fixed at the time of purchase — not estimated, not adjusted after the fact. Either the flight data triggers it or it doesn't.

### Nothing to file. Nothing to prove.

Payouts are triggered by flight data, not by your account of what happened. No receipts, no claim form, no arguing with anyone.