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Location: Istanbul, Turkey
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On separate tickets, you don't have protection. If you miss the earlier MAD flight because your MAN flight is late, it is your own responsibility to figure out how to go to Madrid ( obviously on your own expense ). You have two separate contract of carriages, and one is for Manchester to Heathrow and the other one is for Heathrow to Madrid; none of them are from Manchester to Madrid.
You have three options;
1- Buy both flights on the same ticket ( if already purchased your ticket, ask for 2 FTV's and use them on a single ticket and pay the appropriate fare difference )
2- Drive down to Heathrow
3- Risk your connection on separate tickets with the current combinations ( 1h10min is totally doable in regular circumstances even during COVID, though, in the case of IRROPS it might not )