Originally Posted by
Lux Flyer
While hopefully you won't have any problems with your flight, fortunately, even though you're on seperate tickets, they're all Skyteam. So I believe DL will still protect you on flights to the final destination of the other ticket if you end up misconnecting.
Thank you for your response! And yes, was wondering about protecting on separate bookings (and separate ticketing airlines in this case). Fingers crossed!