#803

IndianOil Citi Credit Card

Keep

Citi's fuel co-brand, absorbed into the IndianOil Axis Premium. Turbo points became EDGE Miles one-for-one.

Not valued

no published earn rate to price

Verified · 3 documents

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What it's worth to you, after the fee

Not valued. We can't value this card until the issuer publishes how it earns — every net-value number here would be a fee subtracted from rewards nobody has described. Everything we can source — the fee, the charges, the migration that put this card in your hand — is above and stands on its own; this card is simply not on the board, not in the calculator, and cannot win a best-of call until Citibank publishes terms we can cite.

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2 notes on the card itself: how it is issued · why it ranks #803

Citibank · Not published · entry

Why #803 India's best-known fuel co-brand before the handover, and the only card in the Citi family whose points had somewhere to go outside the bank. Carried because the Turbo-point conversion and the surviving XTRAREWARDS exit are facts its holders still act on.

₹1,000 + GST
Annual fee1
₹30,000 spend
Fee waiver

The take

For years this was the fuel card people actually did the arithmetic on, because Citi's Turbo points came out at the pump rather than in a catalogue. It ended with the rest of the family: Citi's Indian consumer business went to Axis Bank, every card relationship completed migration on 15 July 2024, and since that day the Citi-branded plastic has run the INDIANOIL AXIS BANK PREMIUM's benefit sheet on Axis's own instruction. So the rate and the fee belong to that card's page, which this board already ranks. What belongs here is the handover. Turbo points converted at 1 Turbo Point = 1 EDGE Mile — flat, no shrinkage, the same treatment the Prestige got — and everything held on migration day never expires. The pump redemption survived too: EDGE Miles still come out as free fuel at IOCL outlets at ₹1 a mile, and they still convert into IndianOil XTRAREWARDS at 3 EDGE Miles for 10 XTRAREWARDS, which is the rare case of an Indian bank currency with a real exit into a fuel programme. Two things the card gained rather than lost: domestic lounge access, which the Citi original did not have at this tier, and a Zomato discount. The quota and the doors are on the successor's page, which is where the entitlement lives. The fuel-surcharge waiver runs across the 35,000-odd IOCL outlets. If you still have the plastic, it works; the card you actually hold is the PREMIUM, and it is on this board.

Your renewal — keep, downgrade or cancel

There is no renewal arithmetic to run on this card yet — and a break-even we cannot source is not one we will print.

the whole desk — what changed, the downgrade, and what we cannot price →

Keep, downgrade or cancel

what we can and cannot price

Not valued. We can't value this card until the issuer publishes how it earns — every net-value number here would be a fee subtracted from rewards nobody has described. A break-even is the spend at which value crosses a fee, and we are short one side of that sentence — so this desk prints no ladder, no crossing and no ₹0 standing in for either. What we can source about this card is under Sources.

The downgrade

Citibank publishes no document naming a card you can step down to, so we name none — an invented product change is a phone call you would waste. That leaves keep or cancel, and we cannot price either side of it.

If you call to cancel

What the bank offers to keep you is the one fact this desk cannot compute. We are collecting those reports — dated, and only in aggregate — before publishing any: an offer one reader was made is not one you are owed. Called about this card? Tell us what they offered →

The desk publishes subscribable .ics feeds for the dates it knows — offer deadlines, devaluations, expiry audits. Your renewal date is not one of them: only your statement knows it.

What's good

  • Turbo points converted flat — 1 Turbo Point became 1 EDGE Mile, and migrated balances never expire
  • The pump exit survived: redeem for free fuel at IOCL outlets, or convert into IndianOil XTRAREWARDS at 3 EDGE Miles for 10 XTRAREWARDS
  • Domestic lounge access arrived WITH the handover rather than being lost to it — the quota and the doors sit on the successor's page
  • 1% fuel-surcharge waiver across 35,000+ IOCL outlets in India

Watch out

  • WITHDRAWN — Citi India's consumer book was sold to Axis Bank and every card relationship completed migration on 15 July 2024
  • Nothing here is valued, because what this plastic earns is the INDIANOIL AXIS BANK PREMIUM's rewards in its currency — that card is on this board and carries the numbers
  • The fuel accelerator is tied to REGISTERED IOCL outlets, so an unregistered pump pays the base rate
  • Points earned after migration expire three years out, and sooner if you go 365 days with no transaction, no redemption and no EDGE REWARDS login
  • Axis says only that the annual fee 'remains the same' and never prints a figure; citibank.co.in, the document that did, no longer resolves

What these points actually fly

Citibank has not published what this card earns, so there are no points here to fly with — not zero points, and not points that go nowhere: nothing stated either way. The moment a benefit sheet exists we will price whatever it names.

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Does your spend count toward the fee waiver?

not published — and we say which

₹30,000 a year is the bar that waives the ₹1,000 fee. A different question from the one above — earning points and counting toward a threshold are separate rules, and issuers write them separately.

Not published. Citibank states what the IndianOil Citi Credit Card earns, but has not published which spend categories count toward the fee waiver — the ₹30,000 bar. We won't guess it from the earn table or from a sibling card: Axis published three cards' rules on one day and all three lists differed. If you hold this card and have it in writing from the issuer, send us the document and we'll source it.

Lounge access

0 of 793 tracked doors

No lounge access. This card opens exactly 0 of 793 tracked lounge doors — board with the crowd, or find a card that doesn't →

Can you get it?

the route in — no cutoffs published

The cutoffs and the actual route in — not the "apply now" button, the door that opens.

Route Closed to new applications
Income · salaried not published
Income · self-employed not published
Age band not published

Closed to new applications — existing cardholders keep the card; there is no way in.

You cannot. Citi stopped issuing Indian consumer cards on the sale of the business to Axis Bank, and migration of every card relationship completed on 15 July 2024. The card Axis offers former holders is the INDIANOIL AXIS BANK PREMIUM, which is on this board with its fee, its earn and a verdict of its own.

Citibank publishes no income or age cutoffs for this card. Blank means blank — we don't invent numbers to fill a grid.

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What's changed for this card

7 dated changes

Full tracker →

Devaluations and buffs that touch this card directly, its issuer, or the points and programs it earns and transfers to. Every one is dated here; the tracker carries each one's before → after and the write-up.

  • 15 Apr 2021
    Partner major Citibank
    Citi announces exit from Indian consumer banking
    Citi credit cards, retail and wealth in India → Consumer business up for sale (later to Axis)

    Citi called time on its Indian consumer arm — including its cult PremierMiles and Rewards cards — citing a lack of scale. The portfolio would eventually pass to Axis, ending one of India's most-loved rewards ecosystems.

  • 12 Oct 2019
    Devaluation major Citibank India
    Citi India guts reward earning on utilities, insurance, and tax
  • 1 Dec 2017
    Devaluation major Citibank
    Citi PremierMiles' 10X 'Extra' partner program dies for good
  • 1 Apr 2016
    Devaluation moderate Citibank
    Citi Prestige strips Etihad Guest Gold and partner perks
  • 1 Feb 2015
    Devaluation major Citibank
    Citi PremierMiles doubles the cost of transferring to airline partners
  • 16 Jul 2012
    Launch moderate Citibank
    Citibank kills Jet Airways co-brand, pivots to PremierMiles
  • 16 Jul 2012
    Launch moderate Citibank
    Citibank Retires 13-Year Jet Airways Co-Brand, Launches PremierMiles

Every Citibank change we've dated → 7 events since 2012, 4 of them nerfs — worst year 2019.