irishguy28 Question...I am fully aware that "officially" you are only ever protected on the same ticket as you so clearly state above. And as far as advice goes, its what we should all ethically recommend. But I'm curious, are there any first hand experiences in the scenario you are on a pure AF/KL 074 or 057 separate tickets and something does happen? Is AF/KL known for being hard a$$ on the rules or is there any personal experiences of consideration? With DL, the rule is the same, but there is lots of circumstantial evidence (even happened to me a few years ago during a messy IROP), where they had no problem rebooking the second ticket that was impacted by the IROP of the first ticket.

Just curious what the real world experience is here, not that I would recommend it.