Originally Posted by
peekolo
Thanks for the response!
So if I understand this correctly - this means it doesn't matter where you purchased these flights - either from Air Canada website, or from other 3rd party or airline websites. As long as it's interline and not codeshared - it will be treated as a "partner airlines" and only those partner airlines and selective routes (for some) will earn points.
Is that right? Thanks again!
Interline vs codeshare doesn't matter for the vast majority of flights, nor does where you book it; what matters is the operating carrier. It's only a handful of non-*A airlines where codeshare matters, and off the top of my head, Cathay is the only one where the route matters (with VA, route matters for SQM earning, not Aeroplan).
The wiki of this thread has a link to a thread which has a calculator that can be helpful in computing the earnings from a given flight or flights.