Indeed, that information about multiple tickets was not in your OP, which I read (and I'm sure many others) as suggesting that you had all those trips on a single itinerary. While I personally already thought that your court case would have extremely little chance of holding water, I now think that it is borderline suicidal. As you had separate tickets, it was entirely your responsibility to plan sufficient time to be sure you could make your connections even in case of problems. With separate tickets, KLM had absolutely no duty to protect your next flights and by my book, you should consider yourself very lucky that they did rebooked you all the way to BRU, while it means they commercially protected a separate itinerary, and it is equally nice they did not reprice the ticket for which you missed the BRU-AMS leg as they would have been allowed to. With what you booked, KLM would have actually been entirely within their right to just put you on the next available flight to HAM and then leave you there as you would have been too late for the boarding of the first segment of your new itinerary (i.e. ticket 2).

I also find it rather nice in that context that they give you the 5000 miles compensation while other posters haven't been able to get anything they were legally entitled too.

There is indeed absolutely nothing wrong in wanting to hold airlines to the law, but in this case, I think you are simply misreading the law and are digging yourself a painful and expensive grave. You won't like my saying so but you simply did not book your MR in the way MRs should be booked if you want to be safe (i.e. either single ticket or plenty of time between the inter-ticket flights) and should consider yourself very lucky that the outcome of your planning mistakes was not, as it should have been in strictly legal terms, your having to buy an expensive last minute ticket to return to base.

My (admittedly entirely unsollicited) advice would be that you listen to ajamieson and cut your loss. I do not however think that you would have a case to get all of your segments since the missed segments cannot be construed in any way as an involuntary reroute but are simply, from the point of view of the airline, a no show for the start of ticket 2 which was graciously changed by the airline while it did not legally have to. Sorry to sound gloomy.

Orbitmic

PS: I expressed myself poorly about the boarding card, I had understood your first flight was KLM too but I just meant is the handling operated by KLM themselves in VCE or is it some other airline/ground handler. If it is someone else, they - and not KLM - would be to blame for the wrong information. This being said, I wouldn't hold my breath on that one even if it is KLM; in most European systems, even information mistakes don't necessarily lead to very pro-customer rulings, and I wouldn't assume that even if 10 minutes was printed by KLM it won't necessarily mean that this will lead to an IDB verdict. Last but not least, to the extent that you are the one suing, if the gate agent's 'record' suggests that you arrive at the gate 9 minutes before boarding, it will be for you to prove that the record is wrong and that you were there when you said you were. Not a very easy task if they decide to play hard balls.