Not enough I know those words.

In general, the partners "buy", speculatively, some number of seats from the airlines. On particular routes, or particular flights, or some blanket discounted price. Or whatever.

And those in-secret-bucket flights get nothing for the PAX. Because that is why AC discounted them to begin with.

​​​​​​If meeting their requirement to you is to pay cash for something, then you as, but-in-seat, end user, you will get your points.


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