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Award sweet spots · from India
Still the default destination for Indian bank points — four issuers feed it — but the November 2025 devaluation (and the March 2026 follow-up on dynamic Access rates) moved every goalpost. The chart is published, Saver space is real, and business class one-way to Singapore remains the cleanest ₹1.7+/mile redemption you can plan for. Economy is where KrisFlyer quietly wastes your points: barely above portal rates. One discipline the blogs get wrong and we got wrong until 02-Aug-2026 — read the chart from INDIA's row. You are Zone 6, not Zone 1, and the long-haul cells price accordingly: Sydney is 100,000 in business, not the 72,000 a Singapore departure pays.
| Redemption | Points | Surcharge | Typical cash | ₹ / pt | vs index |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DEL/BOM/BLR → SIN, business Saver (one-way) | 45,000 | ₹6,000 | ₹85,000 | ₹1.76 | 1.6× |
| India → SIN, economy Saver (one-way) | 19,000 | ₹5,000 | ₹18,000 | ₹0.68 | 0.6× |
| India → Sydney/Melbourne, business Saver via SIN (one-way) | 100,000 | ₹8,000 | ₹2,50,000 | ₹2.42 | 2.2× |
| India → Tokyo/Osaka, business Saver via SIN (one-way) | 88,000 | ₹8,000 | ₹1,50,000 | ₹1.61 | 1.5× |
₹/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.
Post-Nov-2025 Saver rate for Zone 6 (India/Sri Lanka/Maldives/Bangladesh) — up from 43,000. Taxes run ₹3,500–8,000 one-way ex-India; cash J fares start around ₹85,000. ₹/pt computed at the low end of both.
Feed it: HDFC Infinia/DCB 1:1 · Axis Atlas 1:2 (EDGE Miles) · HSBC TravelOne 1:1 · Amex MR 2:1
The one Saver rate that got CHEAPER in Nov 2025 (20,000 → 19,000) and it still loses: economy cash fares of ₹14,000–25,000 mean ~₹0.7/mile — below our ₹1.10 index. Economy to SIN is a cash purchase, not a redemption.
Feed it: Same corridors as business — which is exactly why you shouldn't burn them here
Corrected 02-Aug-2026 off the official Saver chart (effective 1 Nov 2025): this row carried 72,000, which is the SINGAPORE→Zone 9 cell, not India's. India is Zone 6 and Australia-excluding-Perth/Darwin is Zone 9 — Zone 6 → Zone 9 business Saver is 100,000. Still the long-haul the chart rewards (Perth and Darwin are Zone 8 and price at 75,000), and cash J runs ₹2.5–4L; ₹/pt computed at the ₹2.5L low end, because inflated long-haul fares flatter every ₹/pt on this page. Matches /routes/del-syd and /routes/blr-syd.
Feed it: HDFC Infinia/DCB 1:1 · Axis Atlas 1:2 · HSBC TravelOne 1:1
Corrected 02-Aug-2026: this row carried 60,000, which no cell on the live chart supports. Zone 6 (South Asia) → Zone 7 (Japan & South Korea) business Saver is 88,000. Read the asterisk SIA prints on that cell: the zonal fare does not apply to backtracking routes or routes past the maximum permitted mileage, and India–Singapore–Tokyo is a long dogleg south — confirm the exact mileage with KrisFlyer before you count on it. Cash J India→Tokyo via SIN runs ₹1.5–2L; ₹/pt at the ₹1.5L low end with taxes at the top of the published ₹3,500–8,000 ex-India band. Matches /routes/del-nrt and /routes/bom-kix.
Feed it: HDFC Infinia/DCB 1:1 · Axis Atlas 1:2 · HSBC TravelOne 1:1
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.