TAP is where Indian points go to sit, and 2026 made the sitting worse twice. No Indian card feeds it and no TAP metal touches India — you arrive only via a hotel hop (Bonvoy 3:1 with the 60k bonus, Accor 2:1, IHG 5:1), and every mile you land starts a hard 3-year countdown. The Star Alliance chart was repriced on 4 May; then on 28 July TAP's OWN-metal table stopped being a chart at all. It is now titled "Award Ticket Values From", every cabin column is headed "from", and the marquee burn — Lisbon to North America in business — reads from 135,000 miles one-way where this desk carried 63,000. That spot is dead; we have left it below priced at its new floor rather than quietly deleting it. What survives is the economy side, where the floors are genuinely low, plus the free Lisbon/Porto stopover that bolts Portugal onto a wider Europe award. Every number here is a minimum TAP can price above at will — and Gold/Navigator members get unpublished lower floors — so no ₹/pt is claimed on any of them.
₹/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
Lisbon → US East Coast (Boston/New York/Washington), business on TAP metal (one-way)
unpriced
THE DEAD ONE. TAP's own-metal table effective 28 July 2026 prices Mainland Portugal → North America at from 135,000 miles in business — a floor, not a price, and more than double the 63,000 this desk carried through July. At 135,000 miles plus ~₹15–25k of carrier surcharges, sourced through a hotel hop at 3:1, this is no longer a redemption anyone should plan; it is listed so the number that changed is visible. No ₹/pt on a floor.
Feed it: No Indian card direct — Marriott Bonvoy 3:1 (with the 5k/60k-pt bonus) · Accor ALL 2:1 · IHG 5:1
Mainland Portugal → North America, economy on TAP metal (one-way)
unpriced
What's actually left. Economy across the Atlantic floors at 29,000 from Portugal — and here is the table's oddity: start in Europe instead and it floors at 19,000 (Germany, France, UK, Italy and the rest of "Europe 1", all of "Europe 2", or Spain/North Africa), so adding a positioning segment over Lisbon takes 10,000 miles OFF. In business the quirk reverses and Europe costs more. Surcharges are the same cash either way, which hurts an economy seat proportionally far more — so treat this as a use, not a steal.
Portugal domestic, Madeira/Azores, or Portugal ↔ Europe short-haul, economy on TAP (one-way)
unpriced
The everyday use once you're stuck with TAP miles, and the one place from-pricing reads kindly: mainland Portugal to Madeira or the Azores floors at 3,000 miles, domestic mainland hops at 1,990, and Portugal → "Europe 1" (Germany/France/UK/Italy/Ireland/Belgium/Netherlands/Switzerland/Luxembourg) at 5,990. Business on the same short-haul is the joke of the table — 18,000 domestic, and 51,000 between Madeira and the Azores. Cash often undercuts all of these, and you burned a 2:1–5:1 hotel hop to get here. Value, not a spot.
No Indian card transfers into TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go directly.
None of the 40 destinations our issuers actually reach — tracked in data/transfer-partners.yaml — is this program, so there is no
direct ratio to print. The road in is a hop, and this is it: every chain the optimizer will actually walk, best chain per source currency, cheapest to mint first.
2.4:1
Amex Membership Rewards via Marriott Bonvoy 1:1 then 3:1 + bonus · 1 of 2 leg times unpublished · min 3,000 pts · max 240,000 pts/day ₹1.20 to mint one TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go point — the cheapest road in
4.8:1
RBL Reward Points via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy 3:1 then 2:3 then 3:1 + bonus · 1 of 3 leg times unpublished · Club ITC: min 2,000 Green Points, then multiples of 100 (ITC official) · cap 5,000 Green Points/quarter · 20,000/year (halved 1-May-2026; history: 15k/qtr + 60k/yr set Jul-2023, then 10k/40k) · Marriott Bonvoy: min 3,000 pts · max 240,000 pts/day ₹1.20 to mint one TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go point
1.6:1
RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy 1:1 then 2:3 then 3:1 + bonus · 1 of 3 leg times unpublished · Club ITC: min 2,000 Green Points, then multiples of 100 (ITC official) · cap 5,000 Green Points/quarter · 20,000/year (halved 1-May-2026; history: 15k/qtr + 60k/yr set Jul-2023, then 10k/40k) · Marriott Bonvoy: min 3,000 pts · max 240,000 pts/day ₹1.60 to mint one TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go point
AURUM Reward Points via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy 5:1 then 2:3 then 3:1 + bonus · 1 of 3 leg times unpublished · Club ITC: min 2,000 Green Points, then multiples of 100 (ITC official) · cap 5,000 Green Points/quarter · 20,000/year (halved 1-May-2026; history: 15k/qtr + 60k/yr set Jul-2023, then 10k/40k) · Marriott Bonvoy: min 3,000 pts · max 240,000 pts/day ₹2.00 to mint one TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go point
3.2:1
HDFC Reward Points via Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer → Marriott Bonvoy 1:1 then 4:3 then 3:1 + bonus · 1 of 3 leg times unpublished · Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer: min 3,000 miles · cap 250,000 miles per calendar year · Marriott Bonvoy: min 3,000 pts · max 240,000 pts/day ₹3.20 to mint one TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go point
1.6:1
Axis EDGE Miles via Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer → Marriott Bonvoy 1:2 then 4:3 then 3:1 + bonus · 1 of 3 leg times unpublished · Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer: min 3,000 miles · cap 250,000 miles per calendar year · Marriott Bonvoy: min 3,000 pts · max 240,000 pts/day ₹3.20 to mint one TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go point
8:1
Axis EDGE Reward Points via Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer → Marriott Bonvoy 5:2 then 4:3 then 3:1 + bonus · 1 of 3 leg times unpublished · Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer: min 3,000 miles · cap 250,000 miles per calendar year · Marriott Bonvoy: min 3,000 pts · max 240,000 pts/day ₹3.20 to mint one TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go point
3.2:1
SBI Travel Credits via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy 2:1 then 2:3 then 3:1 + bonus · 1 of 3 leg times unpublished · Club ITC: min 2,000 Green Points, then multiples of 100 (ITC official) · cap 5,000 Green Points/quarter · 20,000/year (halved 1-May-2026; history: 15k/qtr + 60k/yr set Jul-2023, then 10k/40k) · Marriott Bonvoy: min 3,000 pts · max 240,000 pts/day ₹3.20 to mint one TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go point
IndusInd Reward Points via Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer → Marriott Bonvoy 4:1 then 4:3 then 3:1 + bonus · 1 of 3 leg times unpublished · Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer: min 3,000 miles · cap 250,000 miles per calendar year · Marriott Bonvoy: min 3,000 pts · max 240,000 pts/day ₹10.24 to mint one TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go point
Every leg is a published route from data/partner-transfers.yaml;
the ₹ figure is what one TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go point costs to mint at the source's house value.
The full funnel for TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go →