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Award sweet spots · from India

Japan Airlines Mileage Bank (JMB)

₹1.10 our house value

The oneworld connoisseur's currency, and the last program in this file that still sells a real First Class cabin. JMB's edge is two published charts — a zone table for JAL metal (India IS on JAL metal: HND–Delhi and HND/NRT–Bengaluru) and a distance table for oneworld partners — but the June 2025 hike bit, and JAL's own international awards remain round-trip only. HSBC TravelOne is the one clean 1:1 Indian feed, except it posts in ten working days, so this is a plan-ahead mile, never a last-minute one. Burn it on the front of a JAL cabin to Tokyo or position for the famous JAL F; everything else the distance chart does, Avios does cheaper.

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The table

Redemption Points Surcharge Typical cash ₹ / pt vs index
DEL/BLR ⇄ Tokyo (HND), JAL business (round trip) 60,000 ₹6,000 — — —
Tokyo ⇄ New York/London/San Francisco, JAL First Class (round trip) — the famous JAL F 130,000 ₹20,000 — — —

₹/pt = (typical cash − surcharge) ÷ points, computed only from sourced numbers — the build fails if a row's arithmetic doesn't. A dash means no honest cash anchor exists; the row's note below says why. Dynamic-priced programs are framed as “typical”, never guaranteed.

Chart-priced, not live seats. Every corridor behind this page is priced off published award charts — 39,855 options across 2,450 corridors. 37% of the 39,855 priced options on the board are stated estimates for programmes that publish no chart; they are marked ~ est. and never crowned the play. Nobody here can see whether a seat exists on your date — confirm the space with the programme before you transfer. Points that leave your issuer do not come back.

Row by row

DEL/BLR ⇄ Tokyo (HND), JAL business (round trip)

unpriced

JAL-metal zone chart, round-trip only (no one-way on JAL's own international awards — the program's oldest quirk). Post-Jun-2025 band; JAL levies light carrier surcharges vs the Gulf/EU carriers, taxes run ~₹5,000–7,000 per direction ex-India. No honest one-way cash anchor for DEL/BLR–HND business, so no ₹/pt claimed — verify the exact band and the Saver vs "Award PLUS" price at booking. India–Tokyo is a rare nonstop premium redemption an Indian card can actually reach at 1:1.

Feed it: HSBC TravelOne 1:1 (10 working days) · Axis Atlas 1:2 (EDGE Miles; Horizon 1:1) · Axis EDGE Rewards 5:2 (Burgundy 5:4) · SBI MILES ELITE 2:1 · Amex MR → Marriott Bonvoy 3:1 (+5k/60k) hop

as of 23 Jul 2026 jal.co.jp

Tokyo ⇄ New York/London/San Francisco, JAL First Class (round trip) — the famous JAL F

unpriced

JMB is one of only a handful of ways to book JAL First (JAL miles, Alaska, or AA) — arguably the best First hard product still flying. Post-Jun-2025 round-trip band on JAL metal; F space is thin and calendar-driven. No ₹/pt claimed because paid JAL First prices in multiples of ₹5–8L and no honest "typical" fare survives — this is a bucket-list burn, not an arbitrage. Round-trip only; reposition from India on the same programme.

Feed it: Same feeds; position India→Tokyo (JAL metal) on the same JMB balance or on points

as of 23 Jul 2026 jal.co.jp

The corridors that feed it

Live ratios from our transfer data — our points : partner points, exactly as tracked in data/transfer-partners.yaml. Every card sits beside the ratio it gets: the headline rate first, then the cards that move at something else.

1:2
Axis EDGE Miles → Japan Airlines Mileage Bank Axis Atlas at 1:5: Axis Bank PRIMUS at 1:4: Axis Olympus at 1:1: Axis Horizon at 2:1: IndianOil Axis Bank Premium up to 10 working days
1:1
HSBC Reward Points → Japan Airlines Mileage Bank HSBC Premier (Metal) · HSBC TravelOne · HSBC Privé at 2:1: HSBC Platinum · HSBC RuPay Platinum 10 working days
2:1
SBI Travel Credits → Japan Airlines Mileage Bank SBI Card MILES PRIME · SBI Card MILES ELITE · SBI Card MILES up to 21 days