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So you are saying that a bank (for instance) wouldn't be charged by Qantas for the points until a customer redeems them?  I hadn't thought of it that way before, but it would make the proposition more attractive for the bank (only pay for points that get used).  But then the question is, as Kangol intimated, how does the bank and the airline know that I'm redeeming points earned via the bank?