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What does your card actually get you?

Points are the slow payoff. Perks are what the annual fee buys on day one — a door at the airport, a tier you never slept for, a dining club riding on the charge. We map every door, verify every shortcut, and re-price every membership at what an Indian holder really extracts: ₹75,993 of sticker becomes ₹37,800. Issuers sell the brochure. We book the value.

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lounges: 793
airports: 315
countries: 96
graded A–C: 651

The flagship · start here Airport lounge map 793 lounge doors across 315 airports in 96 countries and 21 Indian railway stations — 24 of those doors are the station ones — each joined to the cards that open it. 200 of our 1119 cards carry a lounge entitlement; 236 of those hide a spend gate we print in full. 200 of 1119 cards open a door Open the map Only doors we can source — a lounge missing here is unverified, not non-existent.

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A sphere full of doors.

A sample of the map — 48 locations across 48 countries, the busiest door in each. Drag to spin, tap a city, then open the full lounge map for every door and every card that opens it.

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Every door, every card, every guest rule — the full lounge map →

Everything under Perks

Lounge map Every lounge we can verify, and exactly which card opens it — networks, guest rules, spend gates and walk-in prices. 62 Indian airports plus 21 railway stations, then the world. 793 lounges the doors Status shortcuts Hotel and airline elite tiers you can swipe, match or enrol your way into — no 50-night grind. 5 hotel ladders (23 tiers) and what all 3 alliances actually guarantee. 20 live shortcuts the tiers Bundled memberships Every dining and hospitality club your fee quietly buys — sticker struck through, re-booked at what a real Indian user extracts. ₹75,993 of sticker prices in, ₹37,800 out. 7 priced the clubs Best cards for perks The whole catalog ranked by the honest ₹ of status and memberships it hands you before you earn a point. Axis Bank Reserve leads at ₹22,000 a year. 10 of 1119 cards the board Best cards for BOGO movies The buy-one-get-one every issuer advertises and none of them prices: how many second tickets a year, at what ₹ ceiling, on which app — minus the fee. Emirates Skywards ICICI Bank Emeralde leads at ₹26,000 a year. 29 priced the cinema

Perks are opt-in value: a membership you never book is worth ₹0, so none of this is ever added twice into a card's net annual value — see the method. Lounge access changes without notice and we only print doors we can source, so a lounge missing here means unverified, not non-existent. The haircut we take on sticker prices is 50%, and every row carries its date. Points side of the ledger: what your points are worth.