The Star Alliance search engine, not the cheap chart. United went dynamic on its own metal but still prices partner (Star Alliance) awards at fixed saver levels with zero fuel surcharges — and its award-search tool is the best in the alliance, so many people use United to FIND space and then book it cheaper through Aeroplan. The one genuinely unique lever is the Excursionist Perk: a free one-way inside a round trip. India-origin partner business is dear (110,000 to the US), so United earns its keep on US-based flying and on the Excursionist, not on price out of Delhi.
₹/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
Excursionist Perk — a free one-way inside a round trip
unpriced
United's structural trick: on a round trip through three or more segments, one qualifying leg prices at ZERO miles — it must sit in the region where your trip turns around and cannot be the first segment. Think US→Europe, a free intra-Europe hop, then home. No fuel surcharge and no cash anchor to compute — it is simply a leg for free, the closest thing in Star Alliance to Aeroplan's stopover.
Feed it: Any United balance: Axis Atlas 1:2 (doubles in) · HDFC/HSBC/SBI/Kotak 2:1 · Marriott Bonvoy 3:1 (effective 2:1 with the bonus)
Dynamic on United metal, but saver economy still opens from ~12,500 one-way (the range runs 5,000–15,000) with no fuel surcharge. The headline low-end value — not India-origin, so it is a domestic-US tool rather than a Delhi redemption. Atlas 1:2 turns it into 6,250 EDGE Miles.
Feed it: Axis Atlas 1:2 (6,250 EDGE Miles) · HDFC/HSBC/SBI/Kotak 2:1 — but you must be in the US to use it
India → US/Canada, business partner Saver (one-way)
unpriced
Partner Star Alliance business India↔North America prices at a fixed 110,000 one-way (economy 60,500) with zero fuel surcharge — but Aeroplan sells the same Air India seat for 90,000. United's real edge here is award SPACE and search, not price: use it to locate the seat, then transfer to the cheaper program. Widest Star reach in the alliance.
Feed it: Axis Atlas 1:2 · HDFC/HSBC/SBI/Kotak 2:1 — or find the space on United and book it via Aeroplan for 90,000
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.