Economy the play 35,000 pts Star Alliance partner metal, Oceania→India — Copa ConnectMiles (fixed region chart) — via SIN
Singapore Airlines Star Alliance
Copa ConnectMiles prices Star partner metal off its FIXED region chart (India sits in Copa’s "Central Asia" zone). Standout value — India→Europe 45k business, India→Sub-Saharan Africa 17.5k economy on Ethiopian (Cairo is a dearer 20k Middle East cell) — but NO Indian card feeds ConnectMiles (buy-miles or a US co-brand only), so treat it as a reference benchmark, not a wallet-reachable route.
Feed it: 90,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.57:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 180,000 RBL Reward Points (5.14:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 60,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.71:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
Star Alliance metal (SQ partner metal — CA itself flies only Delhi from India), Oceania→India — Air China PhoenixMiles — via SIN
Singapore Airlines Star Alliance
Mirrored from bom-akl: same chart cell, opposite direction – the read that follows was written for the BOM→AKL leg. Air China PhoenixMiles prices its own metal (India→Beijing, resumed Apr-2026) plus Star partners. North Asia is its only genuine strength; elsewhere it is a weak Star pricer with heavy fuel surcharges (why the currency sits at ₹0.90). India-origin levels are not published, so all values are estimated off trans-Pacific anchors. One-way (current PhoenixMiles).
Estimate Reverse of bom-akl – Air China PhoenixMiles publishes no fixed price in either direction, so this mirrors that row's estimate on the same zone pair. Basis there: PhoenixMiles' official zone division could not be reconciled with this corridor — Air China publishes no India-origin level, and its published zone tables do not map cleanly onto these city pairs. This value is extrapolated from the nearest published anchors, not a verified chart price.
Feed it: 50,000 HSBC Reward Points (1.25:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 105,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.63:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 210,000 RBL Reward Points (5.25:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
SkyTeam metal (AF/KLM/KE/Saudia + SAS), Oceania→India — SAS EuroBonus — via SIN
Air FranceKLMKorean AirSaudiaSAS SkyTeam
Mirrored from bom-akl: same chart cell, opposite direction – the read that follows was written for the BOM→AKL leg. SAS joined SkyTeam on 1-Sept-2024, so EuroBonus now prices SkyTeam metal. Ex-India sweet spot: intra-"CESA" business to North Asia/Japan at ~30k. Watch the ×2 multiplier on Air Europa/China Airlines/Vietnam Airlines (UX/CI/VN) metal. One-way = 60% of round-trip.
Estimate Reverse of bom-akl – SAS EuroBonus's chart prices the zone pair, not the direction, so the AKL→BOM cell is the BOM→AKL cell. Mirrored from the verified bom-akl row; not separately re-read for this direction, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Feed it: 294,000 HDFC Reward Points (7:1 via Radisson Rewards) · 294,000 SBI Travel Credits (7:1 via Radisson Rewards) · 735,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (17.5:1 via Radisson Rewards)
Star Alliance partner metal, Oceania→India — United MileagePlus — via SIN
Singapore Airlines Star Alliance
Mirrored from bom-akl: same chart cell, opposite direction – the read that follows was written for the BOM→AKL leg. United went fully dynamic in 2020 (no fixed chart), so ~40,000 is a typical Saver partner level to Oceania. But Aeroplan often prices the same Star seat lower, so compare before burning United miles.
Estimate Reverse of bom-akl – United MileagePlus publishes no fixed price in either direction, so this mirrors that row's estimate on the same zone pair. Basis there: United MileagePlus Saver partner level, India→Oceania on Star Alliance metal; United went fully dynamic in 2020, so this is a typical Saver that moves with availability and cabin scarcity.
Feed it: 20,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 100,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2) · 90,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.25:1 via Marriott Bonvoy)
Star Alliance partner metal, Oceania→India — Aegean Miles+Bonus — via SIN
Singapore Airlines Star Alliance
Aegean Miles+Bonus prices Star partner metal off one region chart published as ROUND TRIPS — its own rule is that a one-way costs exactly half, and the halved figure is what we show. India sits in the "Near East & Central Asia" zone: the Far East is a flat 30k/45k one-way (Tokyo costs the same as Bangkok), Europe 35k/55k, North America 50k/75k. That chart is a single upper-triangular ZONE-PAIR matrix — 45 published cells for 9 zones, exactly one per unordered pair — so AKL → BOM and BOM → AKL resolve to the same cell. Re-read against the chart and promoted from mirror-estimate to chart read on 2026-08-06. No Indian card feeds it — Marriott Bonvoy 3:1 is the only road in, and awards only display once you hold the full balance.
Feed it: 105,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.63:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 210,000 RBL Reward Points (5.25:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 70,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.75:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
SkyTeam metal (MU own + AF/KLM/KE/VN), Oceania→India — China Eastern Eastern Miles — via PVG
Air FranceKLMKorean AirVietnam AirlinesChina Eastern SkyTeam
Mirrored from bom-akl: same chart cell, opposite direction – the read that follows was written for the BOM→AKL leg. China Eastern prices its own metal (India→Shanghai/Kunming nonstop) plus SkyTeam partners. North Asia is its genuine ex-India strength; other regions estimate off the nearest published China-anchored band (Eastern Miles publishes no India-origin matrix). All one-way.
Estimate Reverse of bom-akl – China Eastern Miles publishes no fixed price in either direction, so this mirrors that row's estimate on the same zone pair. Basis there: Eastern Miles publishes no India-origin award matrix — this level estimates off the nearest published China-anchored band, as the row note states, not a verified chart price.
Feed it: 320,000 Amex Membership Rewards (6.67:1 via Hilton Honors) · 1,200,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (25:1 via Hilton Honors) · 240,000 Axis EDGE Miles (5:1 via Hilton Honors)
oneworld partner metal, AAdvantage region award — via KUL, or Qatar via DOH, or Cathay Pacific via HKG, or Qatar Airways via DOH
Qatar AirwaysMalaysia AirlinesCathay Pacific oneworld
AAdvantage prices partner awards on a fixed region-to-region chart. A valid oneworld routing is assumed.
Feed it: 127,500 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 255,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 85,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (2:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
Malaysia Airlines via KUL (oneworld partner award), Oceania→India — Alaska Atmos
Malaysia AirlinesCathay Pacific oneworld
The distance flown is the same distance either way round, so that band prices this heading in either direction of travel. Alaska Atmos bands the TOTAL DISTANCE FLOWN, not the nonstop great circle: the cheapest Atmos routing is Malaysia Airlines via KUL, ~7,660 flown miles against a 7,645-mile nonstop, which reads the Asia-Pacific chart's 7,001-10,000 mi band — 42,500 economy / 85,000 business one-way, plus the $20 partner booking fee per person each way (up from $12.50 on 1-Jul-2026). One-way.
Feed it: 112,500 Amex Membership Rewards (2.65:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 225,000 RBL Reward Points (5.29:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 75,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.76:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
Star Alliance partner metal, Oceania→India — Avianca LifeMiles — via SIN
Singapore Airlines Star Alliance
Mirrored from bom-akl: same chart cell, opposite direction – the read that follows was written for the BOM→AKL leg. LifeMiles prices Star partner metal off an unpublished grid; India→Europe business ~63k is the headline sweet spot (beats Aeroplan). Business is the value cabin here; economy is mediocre. The chart is semi-fixed/unpublished, so some bands are estimates.
Estimate Reverse of bom-akl – Avianca LifeMiles publishes no fixed price in either direction, so this mirrors that row's estimate on the same zone pair. Basis there: LifeMiles publishes no award chart — Avianca withdrew its public zone table in 2023 and prices Star partner awards off an unpublished internal grid. This level is extrapolated from that historical zone pricing plus dated community booking reports, not a verified chart price.
Feed it: 135,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 270,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 90,000 HDFC Reward Points (2:1)
Malaysia Airlines via KUL (AKL–KUL–BOM) — Flying Blue partner award (dynamic)
Malaysia Airlines oneworld
Flying Blue has no award chart, but its partner awards are additive per segment, so this routing bands to 47,500 economy (AKL–KUL 8,703 km → 25,000 + KUL–BOM 3,624 km → 22,500 = 47,500 economy). Partner awards pass the operating carrier's surcharges — the published Oman Air datapoints run US$190–390 one-way — and Flying Blue publishes no per-route table, so this row's cash side stays unpublished. Cabin scope: Etihad sells Flying Blue awards in economy and business only — first, including the Apartment, is not bookable with Miles. First IS bookable on a short list of other partners (Oman Air on Muscat–Bangkok alone, China Eastern, Garuda), none of which is a first routing this board prices, so there is no Flying Blue first row here.
Estimate Flying Blue publishes no chart, but prices PARTNER awards PER SEGMENT — One Mile at a Time, 6-Jun-2024 on the Oman Air launch: "you're paying the per segment pricing anyway", and the additive structure reproduces all four published connection datapoints inside 5%. This row rides Malaysia Airlines (a Flying Blue non-alliance partner redemption — Flying Blue runs ONE partner engine over SkyTeam and non-alliance metal alike, which the 13-Jan-2025 repricing proved by moving Etihad and Delta together), so it is banded segment by segment: AKL–KUL 8,703 km → 25,000 + KUL–BOM 3,624 km → 22,500 = 47,500 economy. Bands anchored on the published Flying Blue partner datapoints (one-way business: Muscat–Dubai 6,100, Abu Dhabi–Kuwait 9,500, Muscat–Bangkok 42,900, Abu Dhabi–Bangkok 45,000, Muscat–Munich 45,800, Abu Dhabi–Johannesburg 48,000, Abu Dhabi–Washington 87,000), with economy at half of business — the one published long-haul economy anchor is Toronto–Abu Dhabi 43,500 against an ~87,000 business segment of the same length. The <=1,200 km rung is the one exception — re-fitted cabin by cabin on its own published quotes on 2026-08-02, hence 5,000 / 11,500 rather than half-and-half. Dates and demand move the real number.
Feed it: 47,500 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 23,750 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 47,500 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)
Star Alliance metal (SQ — EVA itself serves no Indian city; the award rides partner metal), Oceania→India — EVA Infinity MileageLands — via SIN
Singapore Airlines Star Alliance
EVA's own Star Alliance requirement table is a triangular ORIGIN/DESTINATION REGIONAL ZONES matrix carrying one cell per region pair, so no second number exists for this heading. EVA Infinity MileageLands prices Star metal off its zone chart (India = "Central/South Asia" zone; one-way = half round-trip). EVA own metal via Taipei covers Japan/N-Asia/SE-Asia/US/Europe; Gulf/Africa/Oceania are partner-metal only. India→US business ~97.5k (possibly ~55-60k on a fully-EVA routing).
Feed it: 51,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 340,000 Amex Membership Rewards (6.67:1 via Hilton Honors) · 1,275,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (25:1 via Hilton Honors)
Star Alliance partner metal, Oceania→India — TAP Miles&Go — via SIN
Singapore Airlines Star Alliance
Mirrored from bom-akl: same chart cell, opposite direction – the read that follows was written for the BOM→AKL leg. TAP's 4 May 2026 devaluation lifted India→Oceania from 60k/105k to 70k/115k one-way. Route it through Singapore or Bangkok and the trip stays inside two TAP zones; a connection through Europe or the Gulf adds a third region, and TAP then bills segment by segment and sums — far dearer. Heavy fuel surcharges on Lufthansa-group and TAP metal.
Estimate Reverse of bom-akl – TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go's chart prices the zone pair, not the direction, so the AKL→BOM cell is the BOM→AKL cell. Mirrored from the verified bom-akl row; not separately re-read for this direction, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Feed it: 180,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.57:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 360,000 RBL Reward Points (5.14:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 120,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.71:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
Star Alliance partner metal, Aeroplan distance-band award (12,304 km) — via SIN
Singapore Airlines Star Alliance
Aeroplan prices Star partner awards by total distance FLOWN. This row is the direct great-circle band; a connecting routing that flies farther can land in the next band up. A valid Star routing (nonstop or via a Star hub within the maximum permitted mileage) is assumed.
Feed it: 37,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 75,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 187,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
Vietnam Airlines/Korean Air via SGN/ICN (BOM–SGN–ICN–AKL) — Vietnam LotusMiles
Vietnam AirlinesKorean Air SkyTeam
Re-read against the chart in THIS direction on 06-Aug-2026: the official LotusMiles partner table is one upper-triangular zone-pair grid — 66 printed cells for 66 unordered zone pairs, with no from/to distinction to read — and miles are deducted per flight segment, so the reverse itinerary flies the same segments and sums the same cells. Verified, not an estimate. LotusMiles deducts miles PER FLIGHT SEGMENT on its SkyTeam partner table (official chart, effective 1-Aug-2025), and no SkyTeam carrier flies AKL–BOM nonstop — so the price is a SUM, not one cell. Cheapest verified SkyTeam build is Vietnam Airlines/Korean Air BOM–SGN–ICN–AKL — per-segment: BOM–SGN 50,000 (SW Asia × SE Asia) + SGN–ICN 50,000 (SE Asia × NE Asia 2) + ICN–AKL 45,000 (NE Asia 2 × SW Pacific) = 145,000. India is SW Asia on that table; LotusMiles' own SGN/HAN metal runs off a separate chart (25k/60k one-way). One-way.
Feed it: 145,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 145,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 145,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1)
Business the play 55,000 pts Star Alliance partner metal, Oceania→India — Aegean Miles+Bonus — via SIN
Singapore Airlines Star Alliance
Aegean Miles+Bonus prices Star partner metal off one region chart published as ROUND TRIPS — its own rule is that a one-way costs exactly half, and the halved figure is what we show. India sits in the "Near East & Central Asia" zone: the Far East is a flat 30k/45k one-way (Tokyo costs the same as Bangkok), Europe 35k/55k, North America 50k/75k. That chart is a single upper-triangular ZONE-PAIR matrix — 45 published cells for 9 zones, exactly one per unordered pair — so AKL → BOM and BOM → AKL resolve to the same cell. Re-read against the chart and promoted from mirror-estimate to chart read on 2026-08-06. No Indian card feeds it — Marriott Bonvoy 3:1 is the only road in, and awards only display once you hold the full balance.
Feed it: 135,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.45:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 270,000 RBL Reward Points (4.91:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 90,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.64:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
Star Alliance partner metal, Oceania→India — Copa ConnectMiles (fixed region chart) — via SIN
Singapore Airlines Star Alliance
Copa ConnectMiles prices Star partner metal off its FIXED region chart (India sits in Copa’s "Central Asia" zone). Standout value — India→Europe 45k business, India→Sub-Saharan Africa 17.5k economy on Ethiopian (Cairo is a dearer 20k Middle East cell) — but NO Indian card feeds ConnectMiles (buy-miles or a US co-brand only), so treat it as a reference benchmark, not a wallet-reachable route.
Feed it: 150,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.5:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 300,000 RBL Reward Points (5:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 100,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.67:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
Business ~70,000 pts est. Star Alliance metal (SQ partner metal — CA itself flies only Delhi from India), Oceania→India — Air China PhoenixMiles — via SIN
Singapore Airlines Star Alliance
Mirrored from bom-akl: same chart cell, opposite direction – the read that follows was written for the BOM→AKL leg. Air China PhoenixMiles prices its own metal (India→Beijing, resumed Apr-2026) plus Star partners. North Asia is its only genuine strength; elsewhere it is a weak Star pricer with heavy fuel surcharges (why the currency sits at ₹0.90). India-origin levels are not published, so all values are estimated off trans-Pacific anchors. One-way (current PhoenixMiles).
Estimate Reverse of bom-akl – Air China PhoenixMiles publishes no fixed price in either direction, so this mirrors that row's estimate on the same zone pair. Basis there: PhoenixMiles' official zone division could not be reconciled with this corridor — Air China publishes no India-origin level, and its published zone tables do not map cleanly onto these city pairs. This value is extrapolated from the nearest published anchors, not a verified chart price.
Feed it: 87,500 HSBC Reward Points (1.25:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 180,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.57:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 360,000 RBL Reward Points (5.14:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
Business ~84,000 pts est. SkyTeam metal (AF/KLM/KE/Saudia + SAS), Oceania→India — SAS EuroBonus — via SIN
Air FranceKLMKorean AirSaudiaSAS SkyTeam
Mirrored from bom-akl: same chart cell, opposite direction – the read that follows was written for the BOM→AKL leg. SAS joined SkyTeam on 1-Sept-2024, so EuroBonus now prices SkyTeam metal. Ex-India sweet spot: intra-"CESA" business to North Asia/Japan at ~30k. Watch the ×2 multiplier on Air Europa/China Airlines/Vietnam Airlines (UX/CI/VN) metal. One-way = 60% of round-trip.
Estimate Reverse of bom-akl – SAS EuroBonus's chart prices the zone pair, not the direction, so the AKL→BOM cell is the BOM→AKL cell. Mirrored from the verified bom-akl row; not separately re-read for this direction, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Feed it: 588,000 HDFC Reward Points (7:1 via Radisson Rewards) · 588,000 SBI Travel Credits (7:1 via Radisson Rewards) · 1,470,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (17.5:1 via Radisson Rewards)
Business ~90,000 pts est. SkyTeam metal (MU own + AF/KLM/KE/VN), Oceania→India — China Eastern Eastern Miles — via PVG
Air FranceKLMKorean AirVietnam AirlinesChina Eastern SkyTeam
Mirrored from bom-akl: same chart cell, opposite direction – the read that follows was written for the BOM→AKL leg. China Eastern prices its own metal (India→Shanghai/Kunming nonstop) plus SkyTeam partners. North Asia is its genuine ex-India strength; other regions estimate off the nearest published China-anchored band (Eastern Miles publishes no India-origin matrix). All one-way.
Estimate Reverse of bom-akl – China Eastern Miles publishes no fixed price in either direction, so this mirrors that row's estimate on the same zone pair. Basis there: Eastern Miles publishes no India-origin award matrix — this level estimates off the nearest published China-anchored band, as the row note states, not a verified chart price.
Feed it: 600,000 Amex Membership Rewards (6.67:1 via Hilton Honors) · 2,250,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (25:1 via Hilton Honors) · 450,000 Axis EDGE Miles (5:1 via Hilton Honors)
Star Alliance metal (SQ — EVA itself serves no Indian city; the award rides partner metal), Oceania→India — EVA Infinity MileageLands — via SIN
Singapore Airlines Star Alliance
EVA's own Star Alliance requirement table is a triangular ORIGIN/DESTINATION REGIONAL ZONES matrix carrying one cell per region pair, so no second number exists for this heading. EVA Infinity MileageLands prices Star metal off its zone chart (India = "Central/South Asia" zone; one-way = half round-trip). EVA own metal via Taipei covers Japan/N-Asia/SE-Asia/US/Europe; Gulf/Africa/Oceania are partner-metal only. India→US business ~97.5k (possibly ~55-60k on a fully-EVA routing).
Feed it: 77,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 513,334 Amex Membership Rewards (6.67:1 via Hilton Honors) · 1,925,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (25:1 via Hilton Honors)
Business ~80,000 pts est. Star Alliance partner metal, Oceania→India — United MileagePlus — via SIN
Singapore Airlines Star Alliance
Mirrored from bom-akl: same chart cell, opposite direction – the read that follows was written for the BOM→AKL leg. United went fully dynamic in 2020 (no fixed chart), so ~80,000 is a typical Saver partner level to Oceania. But Aeroplan often prices the same Star seat lower, so compare before burning United miles.
Estimate Reverse of bom-akl – United MileagePlus publishes no fixed price in either direction, so this mirrors that row's estimate on the same zone pair. Basis there: United MileagePlus Saver partner level, India→Oceania on Star Alliance metal; United went fully dynamic in 2020, so this is a typical Saver that moves with availability and cabin scarcity.
Feed it: 40,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 200,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2) · 180,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.25:1 via Marriott Bonvoy)
Business ~80,000 pts est. Qatar Qsuite via DOH (oneworld) — Privilege Club route pricing
Qatar Airways oneworld
Mirrored from bom-akl: same route-table cell, opposite direction – the read that follows was written for the BOM→AKL leg. ~17 hours of Qsuite for 80,000 Avios off-peak. Avios move freely between Qatar Privilege Club, British Airways and Finnair: book the O&D from whichever desk prices it cheaper.
Estimate Reverse of bom-akl – Qatar Airways Privilege Club prices Avios on a route-based WHOLE-JOURNEY table and publishes none of it, so this mirrors that row on the same O&D. Basis there: TechnoFino's Privilege Club guide quotes the Mumbai– Auckland Qsuite award at "80,000 Avios during off-peak periods", and Head for Points' Jan-2026 read of the same table prices London–Auckland through Doha at 90,000 business off-peak. Nobody has re-quoted the ex-Auckland direction, and peak dates run roughly 20% higher.
Feed it: 80,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 160,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1) · 80,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)
oneworld partner metal, AAdvantage region award — via KUL, or Qatar via DOH, or Cathay Pacific via HKG, or Qatar Airways via DOH
Qatar AirwaysMalaysia AirlinesCathay Pacific oneworld
AAdvantage prices partner awards on a fixed region-to-region chart. A valid oneworld routing is assumed.
Feed it: 240,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 480,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 160,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (2:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
Business ~82,000 pts est. Star Alliance partner metal, Oceania→India — Avianca LifeMiles — via SIN
Singapore Airlines Star Alliance
Mirrored from bom-akl: same chart cell, opposite direction – the read that follows was written for the BOM→AKL leg. LifeMiles prices Star partner metal off an unpublished grid; India→Europe business ~63k is the headline sweet spot (beats Aeroplan). Business is the value cabin here; economy is mediocre. The chart is semi-fixed/unpublished, so some bands are estimates.
Estimate Reverse of bom-akl – Avianca LifeMiles publishes no fixed price in either direction, so this mirrors that row's estimate on the same zone pair. Basis there: LifeMiles publishes no award chart — Avianca withdrew its public zone table in 2023 and prices Star partner awards off an unpublished internal grid. This level is extrapolated from that historical zone pricing plus dated community booking reports, not a verified chart price.
Feed it: 246,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 492,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 164,000 HDFC Reward Points (2:1)
Malaysia Airlines via KUL (oneworld partner award), Oceania→India — Alaska Atmos
Malaysia AirlinesCathay Pacific oneworld
The distance flown is the same distance either way round, so that band prices this heading in either direction of travel. Alaska Atmos bands the TOTAL DISTANCE FLOWN, not the nonstop great circle: the cheapest Atmos routing is Malaysia Airlines via KUL, ~7,660 flown miles against a 7,645-mile nonstop, which reads the Asia-Pacific chart's 7,001-10,000 mi band — 42,500 economy / 85,000 business one-way, plus the $20 partner booking fee per person each way (up from $12.50 on 1-Jul-2026). One-way.
Feed it: 210,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.47:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 420,000 RBL Reward Points (4.94:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 140,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.65:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
Business ~115,000 pts est. Star Alliance partner metal, Oceania→India — TAP Miles&Go — via SIN
Singapore Airlines Star Alliance
Mirrored from bom-akl: same chart cell, opposite direction – the read that follows was written for the BOM→AKL leg. TAP's 4 May 2026 devaluation lifted India→Oceania from 60k/105k to 70k/115k one-way. Route it through Singapore or Bangkok and the trip stays inside two TAP zones; a connection through Europe or the Gulf adds a third region, and TAP then bills segment by segment and sums — far dearer. Heavy fuel surcharges on Lufthansa-group and TAP metal.
Estimate Reverse of bom-akl – TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go's chart prices the zone pair, not the direction, so the AKL→BOM cell is the BOM→AKL cell. Mirrored from the verified bom-akl row; not separately re-read for this direction, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Feed it: 285,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.48:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 570,000 RBL Reward Points (4.96:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 190,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.65:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
Business ~95,000 pts est. Malaysia Airlines via KUL (AKL–KUL–BOM) — Flying Blue partner award (dynamic)
Malaysia Airlines oneworld
Flying Blue has no award chart, but its partner awards are additive per segment, so this routing bands to 95,000 business (AKL–KUL 8,703 km → 50,000 + KUL–BOM 3,624 km → 45,000 = 95,000 business). Partner awards pass the operating carrier's surcharges — the published Oman Air datapoints run US$190–390 one-way — and Flying Blue publishes no per-route table, so this row's cash side stays unpublished. Cabin scope: Etihad sells Flying Blue awards in economy and business only — first, including the Apartment, is not bookable with Miles. First IS bookable on a short list of other partners (Oman Air on Muscat–Bangkok alone, China Eastern, Garuda), none of which is a first routing this board prices, so there is no Flying Blue first row here.
Estimate Flying Blue publishes no chart, but prices PARTNER awards PER SEGMENT — One Mile at a Time, 6-Jun-2024 on the Oman Air launch: "you're paying the per segment pricing anyway", and the additive structure reproduces all four published connection datapoints inside 5%. This row rides Malaysia Airlines (a Flying Blue non-alliance partner redemption — Flying Blue runs ONE partner engine over SkyTeam and non-alliance metal alike, which the 13-Jan-2025 repricing proved by moving Etihad and Delta together), so it is banded segment by segment: AKL–KUL 8,703 km → 50,000 + KUL–BOM 3,624 km → 45,000 = 95,000 business. Bands anchored on the published Flying Blue partner datapoints (one-way business: Muscat–Dubai 6,100, Abu Dhabi–Kuwait 9,500, Muscat–Bangkok 42,900, Abu Dhabi–Bangkok 45,000, Muscat–Munich 45,800, Abu Dhabi–Johannesburg 48,000, Abu Dhabi–Washington 87,000), with economy at half of business — the one published long-haul economy anchor is Toronto–Abu Dhabi 43,500 against an ~87,000 business segment of the same length. The <=1,200 km rung is the one exception — re-fitted cabin by cabin on its own published quotes on 2026-08-02, hence 5,000 / 11,500 rather than half-and-half. Dates and demand move the real number.
Feed it: 95,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 47,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 95,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)
Star Alliance partner metal, Aeroplan distance-band award (12,304 km) — via SIN
Singapore Airlines Star Alliance
Aeroplan prices Star partner awards by total distance FLOWN. This row is the direct great-circle band; a connecting routing that flies farther can land in the next band up. A valid Star routing (nonstop or via a Star hub within the maximum permitted mileage) is assumed.
Feed it: 65,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 130,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 325,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
Vietnam Airlines/Korean Air via SGN/ICN (BOM–SGN–ICN–AKL) — Vietnam LotusMiles
Vietnam AirlinesKorean Air SkyTeam
Re-read against the chart in THIS direction on 06-Aug-2026: the official LotusMiles partner table is one upper-triangular zone-pair grid — 66 printed cells for 66 unordered zone pairs, with no from/to distinction to read — and miles are deducted per flight segment, so the reverse itinerary flies the same segments and sums the same cells. Verified, not an estimate. LotusMiles deducts miles PER FLIGHT SEGMENT on its SkyTeam partner table (official chart, effective 1-Aug-2025), and no SkyTeam carrier flies AKL–BOM nonstop — so the price is a SUM, not one cell. Cheapest verified SkyTeam build is Vietnam Airlines/Korean Air BOM–SGN–ICN–AKL — per-segment: BOM–SGN 80,000 (SW Asia × SE Asia) + SGN–ICN 110,000 (SE Asia × NE Asia 2) + ICN–AKL 130,000 (NE Asia 2 × SW Pacific) = 320,000. This row priced a Taipei build at 290,000 until 1-Aug-2026; China Airlines flies no TPE–AKL nonstop — CI53 is one flight number routing via Brisbane — so that build was never real, and the honest Korean routing is 30,000 dearer. The published curve inverts by cabin, so don't "correct" it: the Taipei zone pair is DEARER in economy (160,000 against this row's 145,000 via Seoul) and cheaper in business — Northeast Asia 2 is anomalously cheap in economy and dear in business across the whole table, exactly as printed. India is SW Asia on that table; LotusMiles' own SGN/HAN metal runs off a separate chart (25k/60k one-way). One-way.
Feed it: 320,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 320,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 320,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1)
First the play 100,000 pts oneworld partner metal, AAdvantage region award — via KUL, or Qatar via DOH, or Cathay Pacific via HKG, or Qatar Airways via DOH
Qatar AirwaysMalaysia AirlinesCathay Pacific oneworld
AAdvantage prices partner awards on a fixed region-to-region chart. A valid oneworld routing is assumed.
Feed it: 300,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 600,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 200,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (2:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
Star Alliance partner metal, Aeroplan distance-band award (12,304 km) — via SIN
Singapore Airlines Star Alliance
Aeroplan prices Star partner awards by total distance FLOWN. This row is the direct great-circle band; a connecting routing that flies farther can land in the next band up. A valid Star routing (nonstop or via a Star hub within the maximum permitted mileage) is assumed.
Feed it: 75,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 150,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 375,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)