Originally Posted by
irishguy28
To benefit from this transit visa exemption, you would have to actually be travelling on a connecting ticket.
I have not found any language that suggests that this statement would be true. The German pages make zero mentioning of a single ticket requirement. The
UK makes it quite clear that this is not a requirement: "arrive and depart by air; and have a confirmed onward flight departing the same day from the same airport".