KA is the strange due to CX being the owner.

On track with KA another wierd one is QF's wholly owned subsidiary Jetconnect (QF coded as well). I can book it on an ex US award but its not available on a AU-NZ award. Technically AU-NZ is not listed on the chart but the 1 QF operated i could find AU-NZ flight can be booked on its own


IB makes sense to not be a partner. They may have JV with AA and BA for TATL but that's just a small piece of the puzzle and AS is not a OW member.

AZ makes sense as well as once again AS is not a OW member. AF/KLM May have a 25% stake (unless its changed recently) but that's still pretty small. You would have a better chance arguing that VS should be a partner because DL owns 49%. I think some of AS other partners may have a problem with both