Single ticket, single reservation.
Leg 1 arrives at AMS just 45 mins before the last KLM flight to London of the evening. It's winter, so weather happens. Easyjet have a flight to London later in the evening - I am happy to buy a seat as an insurance option to get to sleep in London the same night
The last thing I want is to spend the night at Schiphol and be put on the midday KL flight (destroys work the following day) because everything earlier is full and the connection desk doesn't want to know about the technicalities of EU261 and refuses to ticket last minute with a non-KL carrier
Of course, if leg 1 into AMS is a bit late, I would much rather run for the Easyjet flight, and not queue up and argue with connections desk as to why future legs on the KL itinerary should not be cancelled... or risk being told by reservation phoneline the next day that "sorry sir, uncancelling is not possible, you have to do it at AMS gate in person"
Last edited by davidjohnson6; 19th Oct 2021 at 21:00.