#131

SpiceJet Axis Bank Voyage

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₹750 to bank SpiceJet fares — 4.5% in the air, three-quarters of one percent everywhere else.

₹5,600

a year at ₹40,000 a month, after the fee

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What it's worth to you, after the fee

₹4,400
at ₹0.25L/month
₹5,600
at ₹0.4L/month
₹10,700
at ₹1L/month

Welcome: ₹1,500 SpiceJet flight voucher for 2 transactions within 30 days of issue, plus complimentary SpiceClub Silver membership

Priced on the everyday mix — 30% groceries · 10% utilities · 20% travel · 6% fuel · 34% everything else — with this card's published category rules applied: it earns nothing on fuel here, so that spend is dropped, not paid at the headline, and stops pacing milestones and the waiver. Plus milestones, minus the fee. No accelerator credit — the ranking model on /compare adds ~20% of spend at the card's best accelerator, so its ₹ for this card reads higher.

How these numbers are computed — and why the rankings show a bigger one →

Spend tiers, milestones and fee waivers included, at our house ₹/point. Portal and category multipliers can push higher — run your exact number →

Pays for itself at ₹3,000 a month

At ₹3,000 a month — ₹36,000 a year — on the everyday mix this card returns ₹800 gross (earn ₹300 + milestones ₹500) against its ₹750 fee = ₹0 net — the first rung at or above ₹0. The ladder runs in ₹1,000 steps to ₹1,00,000 a month and ₹10,000 steps to ₹5,00,000; figures are rounded to the hundred, and the accelerator is never credited.

3 notes on the card itself: how it is issued · the network variants · why it ranks #131

Axis Bank · Visa · entry

Visa — Launched "powered by Visa" (Axis/SpiceJet launch press release, 12 May 2022)

Why #131 Ranked below every transferable-currency card on purpose: 0.75% general earn into a currency with exactly one exit — SpiceJet's own seats.

₹750 + GST
Annual fee1
None
Fee waiver

The take

The cheap rung of India's only SpiceJet co-brand, and it behaves exactly like an airline punch-card should: 18 SpiceClub Points per ₹200 on spicejet.com — 4.5% at the ₹0.50 Axis itself publishes — and a threadbare 3 points per ₹200 on everything else, which is 0.75%. Two-thirds of that headline 4.5% is the SpiceClub Silver tier the card hands you free for a year, not the card; the card's own half also stops above ₹1 lakh of SpiceJet spend a month. What actually pays the ₹750 is the front-loaded stuff: a ₹1,500 welcome flight voucher for two swipes in 30 days, 5,000 milestone points across ₹1L and ₹2L of annual spend, 1,000 more on every renewal, and four domestic lounge visits gated on ₹50,000 of previous-quarter spend. Axis's own value chart totals ₹13,050 of year-one benefit on ₹2.5 lakh of spend — believable, but almost none of it is the earn rate. Hold it if SpiceJet is genuinely your airline and you will burn the points on fares. Otherwise you are paying ₹750 a year, unwaivable, to earn 0.75% in a currency with one door out.

Your renewal — keep, downgrade or cancel

Here is the fee, the spend that clears it, and everything that has moved under this card since you last decided.

₹3,000/mo is where it starts paying for itself

the whole desk — your spend, what changed, the downgrade →

Keep, downgrade or cancel

₹750/yr at stake · 5 spend bands

The charge ₹750/yr

Break-even ₹3,000 a month — ₹36,000 a year — is where this card's value crosses its fee.

At your spend

₹4,400 a year, net of the fee, at ₹3,00,000 of annual spend

₹6,500 a year, net of the fee, at ₹6,00,000 of annual spend

₹10,700 a year, net of the fee, at ₹12,00,000 of annual spend

₹27,600 a year, net of the fee, at ₹36,00,000 of annual spend

₹44,600 a year, net of the fee, at ₹60,00,000 of annual spend

Everyday earn plus milestones, minus the fee — the same model as the value panel above, so the two cannot disagree. run your exact spend →

The downgrade

Axis Bank 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 the numbers above are the whole of it.

What has changed under this card

  • 23 Sep 2026 Axis EDGE brings Accor back, drops ITC, and adds Cathay, Miles & More and Hilton issuer-wide
  • 28 Aug 2026 Axis more than doubles its DCC markup — 3.5% generic, but Olympus and Magnus get their own rates issuer-wide
  • 28 Aug 2026 Priority Pass stops opening Indian domestic lounges on every Axis card issuer-wide

We price what is in force today — a change that has not happened yet is not in these numbers. the full archive for this card →

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

  • ₹1,500 welcome flight voucher for 2 transactions in 30 days — twice the ₹750 fee
  • 4.5% on SpiceJet fares (18 SpiceClub Points per ₹200) at the issuer's own ₹0.50 valuation
  • 4 domestic lounge visits a year on ₹50,000 of previous-quarter spend
  • 5,000 milestone points at ₹1L/₹2L annual spend, plus 1,000 on every renewal

Watch out

  • 0.75% on general spend — a loyalty punch-card, not a rewards engine
  • SpiceClub points redeem only against SpiceJet fares, meals and add-ons; no transfer partners
  • 12 of the headline 18 points per ₹200 come from the Silver tier, free for year 1 only
  • ₹750 every year with no spend-based waiver, and 3.5% forex
  • Wallet, fuel, EMI, insurance, education, government and rent earn nothing
  • Since 28 Aug 2026: the dynamic-currency markup more than doubled to 3.5% (from 1.5%), a ₹1,300 late fee applies above ₹50,000 outstanding, and Bridge/Road/Toll spends earn no SpiceClub points

What these points actually fly

No live transfer route takes SpiceJet SpiceClub into a programme that publishes an award chart. These points buy catalogue and portal redemptions, not award seats — so this page has no flight to show you, and will not invent one.

what the cards that DO reach a chart can fly — 2,196 corridors priced →

What earns, what doesn't

14 sourced rules · 8 pay zero
Fuel excluded — Zero SC Points; 1% fuel surcharge waiver instead (₹400–₹4,000 txns, max ₹400/month)
Rent & property management excluded — Zero SC Points; 1% rent transaction fee (MCC 6513) since 5-Mar-2023
Government / tax excluded — Zero SC Points — government services named in the SpiceClub earn exclusion list
Utilities (electricity/water/gas) full — ACCELERATED: online utility bill payment (MCC 4900) earns 6 SC/₹200 = 1.5%, double the base
Insurance excluded — Zero SC Points — insurance named in the earn exclusion list
Education excluded — Zero SC Points — education services excluded
Wallet loads excluded — Zero SC Points; 1% Axis fee on wallet loads ≥₹10k/cycle
Groceries & supermarkets full — Base 3 SC/₹200 = 0.75%; no cap is published on groceries
Dining & food delivery accelerated — 6 SpiceClub points per ₹200 on dining and food delivery — 1.5% at the ₹0.50 a SpiceClub point is marked at, double the 3 SC/₹200 base. Axis gates the rung by MCC — 5812 and 5814 for restaurants and fast food, plus 4900, 5499, 7829 and 7832 — so a spend outside those codes drops straight to the base rate, and no ceiling is published on it
Telecom full — Base 3 SC/₹200 = 0.75%; telecom is not on the exclusion list
Jewellery / gold excluded — Zero SC Points — gold items and all jewellery transactions excluded
Forex / international spends full — International spends earn the base 3 SC/₹200 = 0.75%; 3.5% markup + 1.5% DCC
UPI (RuPay-on-UPI only) not applicable — Visa card, no RuPay variant published — UPI not supported
EMI conversions / merchant EMI excluded — EMI transactions earn zero; points are reversed if a purchase is converted to EMI later
  • Fuel · excluded Zero SC Points; 1% fuel surcharge waiver instead (₹400–₹4,000 txns, max ₹400/month)
  • Rent & property management · excluded Zero SC Points; 1% rent transaction fee (MCC 6513) since 5-Mar-2023
  • Wallet loads · excluded Zero SC Points; 1% Axis fee on wallet loads ≥₹10k/cycle
  • Insurance · excluded Zero SC Points — insurance named in the earn exclusion list

per Axis Bank T&C · rank every card by spend category →

Does your spend count toward the milestones?

not published — and we say which

A different question from the one above — earning points and counting toward a threshold are separate rules, and issuers write them separately.

Not published. Axis Bank states what the SpiceJet Axis Bank Voyage earns and does not earn, but has not published which spend categories count toward the milestones . 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

12 of 793 tracked doors
4/year (1 per calendar quarter) at the 11 rooms on Axis's Set A list
Domestic
None
International
Guests pay the lounge's own displayed price; a ₹2 (Visa/RuPay) or ₹25 (Mastercard) validation swipe is taken at entry
Guests

Gate: ₹50,000 of eligible spend in the previous 3 calendar months, w.e.f. 1 May 2024 — waived for the month of issuance and the 3 calendar months after it on a newly issued card, but an UPGRADE does not count as a new issuance

Opens 12 of 793 tracked lounge doors across 6 airports — see the full map →

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 Direct application
Income · salaried not published
Income · self-employed not published
Age band not published

Direct application — no invite list, no banking relationship required.

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

per the official Axis Bank MITC — figures marked (community) aren't in the PDF; the issuer won't say · filter the board by what you can get →

The fine print

6 of 7 MITC rows published

What the MITC actually says — the rates, fees and cutoffs the brochure skips.

Forex markup 3.5% of the transaction value (+ 3.5% dynamic-currency-conversion markup, raised from 1.5% on 28 August 2026).
APR 3.75%/mo (55.55%/yr)
Late fee Nil if total payment due < ₹500; ₹500 (₹501–5,000); ₹750 (₹5,001–10,000); ₹1,200 (>₹10,000); +₹100 when the Minimum Amount Due is missed two cycles running. A ₹1,300 band above ₹50,000 has applied since 28 August 2026.
Cash advance 2.5% of the cash amount, min ₹500
Add-on card Nil — add-on joining and annual fees are both waived
Overlimit 2.5% of the over-limit amount, min ₹500
Redemption fee not published

Joining ₹750, annual ₹750 — NO spend-based waiver (Axis Key Fact Sheet, 08-Jul-2026). Same Axis-wide transaction fees as the Black variant: 1% rent (MCC 6513), 1% education via third-party apps, 1% wallet loads ≥₹10k/cycle, 1% fuel ≥₹50k/cycle, 1% utilities ≥₹25k/cycle. Fuel surcharge waiver 1% on ₹400–₹4,000, max ₹400/month. The card's own T&C were revised w.e.f. 20-Jun-2025 (linked from the product page).

per the official Axis Bank MITC · reviewed 10 Jul 2026

What's changed for this card

8 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 Nov 2026
    not yet in force Devaluation moderate Axis Bank
    The Reserve's memberships stop renewing unless you say yes
    Club ITC Culinaire, Accorplus, handcrafted Club Marriott Asia Pacific, EazyDiner Prime and Priority Pass renewed automatically each year for as long as the card was open → From 15 Nov 2026 complimentary memberships linked to the card renew only with the cardholder's explicit consent — Axis says renewal and consent details will be shared closer to each renewal date. The same notice flips Priority Pass off at Indian domestic lounges from 28 Aug 2026 (present the Reserve card itself) and adds a ₹1,300 late-payment slab above ₹50,000 outstanding

    The Reserve's whole defence of a ₹50,000 fee is the membership stack — Club ITC Culinaire with its free third night, Accorplus, handcrafted Club Marriott Asia Pacific, EazyDiner Prime, and the unlimited Priority Pass. Axis's own Reserve revision notice says that from 15 November none of them renew unless you actively consent. Framed as a choice, it works as breakage: the failure mode of an opt-in is silence, and a cardholder who misses the renewal email keeps paying ₹50,000 for a card whose benefits have quietly lapsed. Reserve is on the same list as Select, Magnus, Magnus for Burgundy, Burgundy Private, Olympus and both Miles & More cards, so this is the whole Axis premium book learning the same trick. Two other things ride the notice: from 28 August the Priority Pass card stops opening Indian domestic lounges — you present the Reserve itself against Axis's own eligible-lounge list, and post-immigration lounges at Indian international terminals still count as international — and a fifth late-payment slab of ₹1,300 appears above ₹50,000 outstanding. Notably, the Reserve notice carries no dynamic-currency-conversion line at all while the bank-wide grid goes 1.5% → 3.5%, and the card's 1.5% foreign transaction fee is untouched.

  • 1 Nov 2026
    not yet in force Devaluation minor Axis Bank
    Privilege's movie buy-one-get-one becomes a spend gate
  • 1 Nov 2026
    not yet in force Devaluation minor Axis Bank
    IndiGo Axis Premium's movie BOGO grows a ₹25,000 spend gate
  • 1 Nov 2026
    not yet in force Devaluation minor Axis Bank
    The movie-BOGO spend gate reaches My Zone too — ₹25,000 in the previous 3 months
  • 1 Nov 2026
    not yet in force Devaluation minor Axis Bank
    NEO's BookMyShow discount grows a ₹25,000 spend gate
  • 1 Oct 2026
    not yet in force Devaluation moderate Axis Bank
    SELECT's ₹3L milestone stops counting the spends it never rewarded
  • 23 Sept 2026
    Partner major Axis Bank
    Axis EDGE brings Accor back, drops ITC, and adds Cathay, Miles & More and Hilton
    Accor and Marriott off the grid since 2 April 2026; Club ITC live; no Cathay, Miles & More or Hilton → Accor live at the punished rates; ITC removed; Cathay, Hilton and Miles & More live; Marriott still gone

    Axis's own Travel EDGE terms, re-read 25 September 2026, already show the grid that went live on 23 September. Accor ALL is back, and not at the old Atlas 1:2: EDGE Miles convert at 2:1 (Olympus 1:2) and EDGE Rewards at 5:1, with Magnus for Burgundy at 5:2 and only Burgundy Private still at 5:4. Club ITC is off the table. Three partners are new. Cathay Asia Miles sits on that same punished grid. Hilton Honors is the ordinary one: EDGE Miles 1:2, EDGE Rewards 5:2, Burgundy 5:4. Lufthansa Miles & More is the exception on Atlas, which converts 1:1 there while every other standard airline on that card is 1:2; the EDGE Rewards side of Miles & More is the ordinary 5:2. Marriott stays removed. Qatar Privilege Club was already back. Flying Blue, Air India and Qantas moved into Group A, which is the capped group. The Axis Rewards credit card's Amex network is advertised as joining-fee and annual-fee nil for a limited period; there is no separate Amex variant on this board, so that offer is not modelled as a fee change.

  • 1 Sept 2026
    Fee moderate Axis Bank
    Burgundy Private's lapse fee doubles to ₹1 lakh

Every Axis Bank change we've dated → 38 events since 2019, 25 of them nerfs — worst year 2026.

Verified against Axis Bank's own documents on · the net-annual-value engine, at our house ₹/point

Every document behind this page — 7 of them, each with the day we read it

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