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Old May 10, 2012 | 9:34 am
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Yaatri
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Originally Posted by unicon
Actually, that is not necessarily correct. It all depends on the contracts between them. For example, for quite a while DL had a separate partnership with SQ while both of them were ST and *A members respectively.
Before alliances were established, airlines had multiple partners. KLM flights earned you miles on UA or DL frequent flyer programmes. Similarly, SQ had been a mileage earning partner of DL before it joined Star alliance. DL's partnership with SQ does not nullify what PVDtoDL said.

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