Club Vistara toughens elite tiers to points-AND-flights rule

Club Vistara has quietly rewritten its elite qualification math. The old test was an easy either/or: hit the tier points, or hit the flight count, and the tier was yours. The new rule demands both — minimum tier points AND minimum flights — and if you clear one bar but not the other, you don’t qualify.

The flyers this prices out are obvious: the short-hop crowd who stacked frequent domestic legs into status without the revenue to match. Vistara is telling you, in requalification criteria rather than press releases, exactly which customer it wants — the premium, long-haul, business-class spender.

An ‘AND’ where an ‘OR’ used to be is a devaluation, whatever the FAQ calls it. The tiers cost more now; nothing about their benefits improved in exchange.

Our take: status chasing on segments alone is dead at Vistara. If you can’t clear both bars naturally, stop engineering mileage runs for a tier — the same rupees earn transferable points that no requalification table can confiscate.