Originally Posted by
JDiver
IMO, an airline does not perceive, record or treat a ticket paid for miles as a "revenue ticket".
Depends on the airline, I suppose, but award seats are very, very different from non-revenue bookings on every carrier I've flown the past 20+ years. I'm pretty sure *A explicitly calls that out in some of its rules for member carriers but too lazy to go digging for that reference now.