Affiliate Disclosure

1. What this page covers

Volata is committed to transparent disclosure of any financial relationships with travel rewards programs, credit card issuers, and booking platforms. This page explains both our current state (no active commission relationships) and the framework that will govern affiliate revenue when partnerships are established.

In plain English: today Volata earns money from paid Pro subscriptions only. We have no active commission relationships with credit card issuers, loyalty programs, or booking partners. Captain Byron does not currently recommend products in exchange for compensation. When that changes, we will update this page first — before any affiliate link goes live.

2. Our affiliate relationships

Current state (as of the "last updated" date above):Volata has zero active commission relationships. No revenue is being earned from referrals, signups, bookings, or credit card applications. Any links to third-party programs that appear elsewhere on the site point to the program's own public signup or information page and do not carry an affiliate tag.

When commission relationships are established, this section will list each one, and we will disclose:

• The specific partner name and category (loyalty program, credit card issuer, booking platform, travel insurance, etc.).
• The nature of the relationship (per-application referral, percentage of booking value, flat-rate placement, etc.).
• The date the relationship became active and the date of the most recent commission verification.

Programs we may eventually partner with

Programs whose signup pages may be linked from Volata today (without commission tags) and that we may pursue formal affiliate relationships with in the future include: Qantas Frequent Flyer, Velocity Frequent Flyer, KrisFlyer, Asia Miles, JAL Mileage Bank, ANA Mileage Club, Emirates Skywards, Etihad Guest, Qatar Privilege Club, British Airways Avios, Alaska Mileage Plan, and Australian-market credit cards from American Express, ANZ, and NAB. These names are listed for transparency only — none currently pays us a commission.

3. Future commission model

When affiliate relationships are established, the model is expected to look like this. Specific rates will be disclosed partner-by-partner in §2 once contracts are signed.

• Hotel bookings— typically a percentage of the booking platform's commission (often a fraction of a few percent of the total booking value).
• Travel insurance — typically a flat fee per policy issued.
• Credit card signups— typically a fixed fee per approved application, paid by the bank's marketing partner once an account is approved.
• Frequent flyer signups — small per-signup referrals where the program offers them; many programs offer zero referral fee and we may still link because the program is genuinely useful.
• Activities and lounges — commission tiers vary; typically a percentage for activities and a fixed fee for lounge memberships.

Current state: zero active commission relationships. Zero affiliate revenue is being earned. This page will be updated before any commission link goes live, not after.

We do not share user-identifying data with third parties beyond what the click itself contains (UTM tags identifying the source page on Volata). We do not sell user data.

4. Editorial independence

Affiliate relationships do not influence our rate data, comparisons, or recommendations. This is structurally enforced, not just a policy statement:

• Rates and comparisons come from our verified award chart database (award_chart_entries), audited program-by-program. The database does not contain commission information. There is no field, column, or query path that exposes commission rates to the comparison logic.
• Captain Byron's recommendations are produced by the LLM with the verified rate data injected as context. The LLM does not have access to commission rates. It cannot rank by commission because it cannot see commission.
• The cheapest option still wins — even when the cheapest partner has weaker or no affiliate program. If Aeroplan at 87,500 points beats a partner we have an affiliate relationship with at 100,000 points, we tell you Aeroplan.
• If you ask "what's the cheapest?" — Byron answers honestly, even if the cheapest answer is not affiliated.
• If a competitor is genuinely betterfor your use case (e.g., seats.aero for live availability search), Byron will say so. We'd rather be useful than convert you on a worse product.

These commitments are codified in our Editorial Policy and enforced architecturally in the underlying recommendation systems.

5. Where disclosures will appear

The disclosure architecture is implemented and ready for partnership-driven activation. When commission relationships exist, disclosures will render in three places, every time:

• In Captain Byron's chat replies — when Byron includes an affiliate link, an inline disclosure indicator appears alongside the link or in the message footer (the <AffiliateDisclosure /> component is already wired into the chat surface).
• On programmatic and content pages — any module that surfaces an affiliate placement (hotel booking, travel insurance, credit card recommendation) renders the inline disclosure block via the same component. The component cannot be removed from the placement template.
• In newsletters— every newsletter issue with an affiliate placement will carry a clear "disclosure" line in the same email.

Currently, no affiliate links appear in Byron's output, on programmatic pages, or in newsletters, because no commission relationships exist. If you ever see an affiliate link on Volata without a clear disclosure, it's a bug — email us at the address in §7 and we'll fix it the same day.

6. Opting out in advance

Pro subscribers can pre-set a preference in Settings under Privacy & Affiliateto suppress affiliate suggestions in Byron's responses. The toggle is shipped and reserved for the moment partnerships activate; it has no current effect because Byron has nothing affiliate- flavoured to suppress yet. When commission links go live, your setting will be respected from day one.

If you cancel your Pro subscription in the future and tell us the reason was "too many affiliate placements" or similar, we will refund the remainder of your billing month proactively.

7. Questions or concerns

Email hello@pointspilotapp.com with any questions about how affiliate links work on Volata, to report a missing disclosure, or to suggest a partner you think we should evaluate.

8. Updates to this disclosure

We update this page when partner relationships change (new partners approved, partnerships ended, commission structures materially shift). The "last updated" date at the top of the page reflects the most recent change. Material changes are also called out in our newsletter.