It doesn't matter as to whether the tickets earns miles. Neither does it matter for Points.
For the amount of miles, yes the flight number matters. But that was not the issue SK AAR was referring to, neither did the OP enquire about it.
And of course M&M removed the Ethiopian fare mapping table from their website for the sake of transparency.
Originally Posted by
daumueller
fare class still matters. The sentences only states that you don’t need to be on certain flight numbers.