<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Hufflepuff:
In fact I saw something similar in Business Traveller or some such thing, where an agency in Belgium will purchase the tickets for you and then send them either for collection at Brussels Airport or to your office via mail (if you wanted to try skipping the first segment). </font>
When I book from ebookers in the Netherlands, they have the ticket ready for collection for me at Schipol. Last time I did it, I did LGW-AMS , ran through the airport, picked up the tickets and hopped onto the same plane back to Gatwick.
By doing the trip to AMS as a an afternoon out the day before, I didnt need to take any luggage and since I stayed in London for less than 24hrs it didnt count as a stopover
Dave