oliver2002, thank you for your reply. I'm not sure what you mean with german point of sale. Are there other airlines' FFP with german POS? If I call the Frankfurt office of UA or ANA, would I get a different answer? I'm a bit confused what point of sale means in this case. If M&M is the only one with a german POS then effectively LH was "restricting award availability to *A partners" as per the topic question.