Club Vistara launches alongside Vistara's maiden flight
Club Vistara goes live on January 9, 2015, the day of Vistara's inaugural Delhi-Mumbai flight — revenue-based from day one at 5 points per ₹100, with three tiers and a 500-point launch bonus.
India has a new full-service airline as of today — and, in the same breath, a new loyalty program. Club Vistara went live alongside the Tata Sons/Singapore Airlines joint venture’s inaugural Delhi-Mumbai service.
The structure is notable: revenue-based from day one. You earn 5 points per ₹100 spent (excluding taxes) — no distance charts, no fare-class decoder rings. Three tiers at launch: Base, Silver, Gold. And there’s a starter carrot: a 500-point bonus for completing your first flight within a month of enrolling.
Until this morning, no Tata-Group airline loyalty program existed. It’s also the first genuinely new full-service Indian airline FFP in years — a field that has mostly seen programs devalue, not debut.
Our take: revenue-based earning is honest math — you earn what you spend, and nobody games a fare bucket. Whether 5 points per ₹100 turns into real value depends entirely on what redemptions cost. Enroll, take the 500 points, and judge it by the burn side.