Abu Dhabi to Chennai on points

oneworld partner metal, AAdvantage region award — or Qatar via DOH, or Qatar Airways via DOH, or Oman Air via MCT

Qatar AirwaysOman Air oneworld

AAdvantage prices partner awards on a fixed region-to-region chart. A valid oneworld routing is assumed.

Feed it: 52,500 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 105,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 35,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (2:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

Air India via BOM (AUH–BOM–MAA; BOM–AUH on Air India Express) — Maharaja Middle East tier

Air IndiaAir India Express

Air India’s April-2026 region-tier award — the tier price covers the whole mainline award including a domestic feeder, not a leg-sum. Mirrored from maa-auh: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 12,000 is the maa-auh number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Air India publishes no award chart. Its own Points Calculator states that “Fares indicated above are dependent on the time of booking and seat availability”, and Maharaja Club prices every award either as a Value fare (the discounted rate for booking well in advance) or as a higher Prime fare closer to departure. This number is the Value-fare floor as sampled after the April-2026 repricing — not a published chart cell: Value space is not always available on a given flight, and the same seat prices higher once it is gone. Pricing model re-verified against Air India’s Maharaja Club T&C and Points Calculator on 2026-08-09. This direction is additionally mirrored from the reverse corridor — Maharaja prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel — and has not been sampled separately.

Feed it: 12,000 IndusInd Reward Points (1:1) · 6,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 12,000 ICICI Reward Points (1:1)

IndiGo nonstop — BluChip, dynamic (revenue-priced)

IndiGo

IndiGo BluChip has no award chart at all — redemptions track the live fare at a dynamic ₹0.40–0.60 per BluChip, minimum 500 points, taxes cash-only, own metal only with no partners. It is a rupee offset wearing points clothing, not a chart price. Mirrored from maa-auh: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 20,000 is the maa-auh number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of maa-auh — IndiGo BluChip prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the maa-auh economy cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. IndiGo BluChip is revenue-linked ~Rs0.50/pt; ~= typical one-way IndiGo economy fare / Rs0.50 for ~1,843 mi - a rupee offset that moves 1:1 with the live fare. Own-metal only, no partners.

Feed it: 30,000 HSBC Reward Points (1.5:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 100,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:1) · 60,000 HDFC Reward Points (3:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL))

Etihad nonstop — an Aeroplan SELECT PARTNER (dynamic column); Air India no longer flies Abu Dhabi

Etihad Airways

Aeroplan prices Star partner awards by total distance FLOWN — only a CA$39 partner booking fee plus taxes. The only metal on this nonstop is Etihad, a named Select Partner, so the number is the published dynamic floor and not the flat 15,000 band cell: live quotes sit at or above 12,500 and climb in high-demand periods. Reconciled 2026-08-06 with maa-auh, which now reads the same Select column.

Estimate Etihad is one of Aeroplan's named SELECT PARTNERS ("Select Partners include United Airlines, Emirates, Flydubai, Etihad Airways…"), and the Flight Reward Chart prices that column DYNAMICALLY. The 1,001-2,000-mile Within-Atlantic band this 1,843-mile hop reads prints "Starting at" floors of 12,500 economy / 22,500 business / 40,000 first for Air Canada and/or Select Partners — against a flat 15,000 / 22,500 / 40,000 for "All other partners", a cell that does NOT apply to Etihad metal. We carry the published Select floor, not the fixed cell; live quotes sit at or above it and climb in high-demand periods. No fixed-price Star partner flies this corridor either: Air India abandoned Abu Dhabi post-merger (data/airline-networks.yaml, notServed), and ET/MS/TK reach AUH only by backtracking through ADD/CAI/IST, which lands in the 4,001-6,000-mile band at 42,500 / 70,000.

Feed it: 6,250 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 12,500 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 31,250 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)

Etihad nonstop AUH–MAA, or Oman Air via MCT — Flying Blue partner award (dynamic)

Etihad AirwaysOman Air

No SkyTeam metal touches Chennai — Chennai's own airline table lists no Air France, KLM, Korean, Vietnam, China Eastern, Kenya, Saudia or Delta. Flying Blue's Chennai door is its non-alliance partner Etihad (or Oman Air via MCT). Only economy and business are bookable with Miles on these partners — no first. Partner awards carry the operating carrier's surcharges (the published Oman Air datapoints run US$190–390 one-way), which Flying Blue does not publish per route.

Estimate Flying Blue is dynamic and prices partner awards PER SEGMENT (One Mile at a Time, 6-Jun-2024: "you're paying the per segment pricing anyway"). No SkyTeam carrier serves Chennai at all, so this row rides Etihad — a Flying Blue redemption partner since 27-Nov-2023 — nonstop: 2,966 km banded to 15,000 = 15,000 economy. Bands anchored on published Flying Blue partner datapoints (business one-way: 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); economy is half of business, the one published economy anchor. Dates and demand move the real number.

Feed it: 15,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 7,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 15,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)

Etihad Airways own metal from AUH, distance-band award (total distance flown)

Etihad Airways

Etihad Airways own-metal Abu Dhabi→Chennai. Etihad's carrier-imposed surcharges are real but materially lighter than Emirates' — the cash side on an Abu Dhabi award is usually tens of dollars plus destination taxes, not hundreds of pounds, which is most of why Etihad Guest out-values Skywards on the same corridor. Etihad Guest is fully dynamic: eco/biz are the fixed-rate Promo/Saver Award starting levels for the route's one-way distance band (the structure Etihad last published, still the working estimate in 2026), and the ranges run up to the 'any available seat paid with miles' standard prices you'll actually see when the cheap inventory is gone. Fixed-rate space is limited — treat the low end as a target, not a quote. first appears only on the five routes Etihad currently flies the A380 with First Apartments (LHR, CDG, SIN, YYZ, NRT); Bangkok joins on 25 Oct 2026 and is deliberately left without a first price until it flies. New York lost the A380 in June 2025, so JFK has no First. Shanghai, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, Auckland and Dubai are absent because Etihad does not fly them from Abu Dhabi today. A valid Etihad Airways routing is assumed.

Estimate Dynamic/unpublished-chart program — estimate is the typical one-way economy level Abu Dhabi→Chennai (range 15k–32k); not a fixed chart price, never THE PLAY.

Feed it: 7,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 15,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 37,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)

Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ the Gulf — Avianca LifeMiles

Star Alliance

LifeMiles publishes no chart: Avianca withdrew its public zone table in 2023 and prices Star partner awards off an unpublished internal grid — its one real edge. Business is the value cabin here; economy is mediocre. Mirrored from maa-auh: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 15,000 is the maa-auh number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of maa-auh — Avianca LifeMiles prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the maa-auh economy cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. 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: 45,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 90,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 30,000 HDFC Reward Points (2:1)

Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ the Gulf — United MileagePlus

Star Alliance

United went fully dynamic in 2020 (no fixed chart), so this is a typical Saver partner level on Star metal for this pair. But Aeroplan often prices the same Star seat lower. Mirrored from maa-auh: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 17,500 is the maa-auh number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of maa-auh — United MileagePlus prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the maa-auh economy cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. United MileagePlus Saver partner level, India ⇄ the Gulf 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: 8,750 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 43,750 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2) · 52,500 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy)

Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ the Gulf — Aegean Miles+Bonus

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 AUH → MAA and MAA → AUH 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: 60,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 120,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 40,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (2:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ the Gulf — Copa ConnectMiles (fixed region chart)

Star Alliance

Copa ConnectMiles prices Star partner metal off a FIXED region chart (India sits in Copa’s "Central Asia" zone). 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. Copa's partner chart is a strictly upper-triangular region matrix — one cell per unordered region pair, no direction axis at all — so 20,000 is the same published cell as maa-auh, re-read off the official Copa PDF on 2026-08-06 rather than inferred.

Feed it: 60,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 120,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 40,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (2:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

Oman Air via MCT (oneworld partner award), India ⇄ the Gulf — Alaska Atmos

Oman AirQatar Airways oneworld

Alaska Atmos bands the TOTAL DISTANCE FLOWN, not the nonstop great circle, so a connecting build can read a higher band than the map suggests — plus the $20 partner booking fee per person each way (up from $12.50 on 1-Jul-2026). Mirrored from maa-auh: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 25,000 is the maa-auh number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of maa-auh — Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the maa-auh economy cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.

Feed it: 60,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.4:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 120,000 RBL Reward Points (4.8:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 40,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

Etihad nonstop AUH–MAA — Vietnam Lotusmiles partner award

Etihad Airways

LotusMiles deducts miles PER FLIGHT SEGMENT on its SkyTeam partner table (official chart, effective 1-Aug-2025), so a connecting build is a SUM of its sectors, not one cell. India is "SW Asia" on that table. Mirrored from maa-auh: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 35,000 is the maa-auh number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of maa-auh — Vietnam Airlines Lotusmiles prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the maa-auh economy cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. Etihad is a named Lotusmiles redemption partner — Vietnam Airlines' own partner table lists EY with award booking classes I (business) and N (economy) — and it flies MAA–AUH nonstop. The price is the published Southwest Asia x Middle East cell (35,000 economy / 70,000 business one-way). Estimated, not verified, for one reason: Lotusmiles publishes that 11-zone table for SkyTeam metal plus China Southern and ANA, and points non-SkyTeam partners at a separate 10-zone "Award Zone Definition on Other Airlines" whose mileage table Vietnam Airlines does not publish anywhere. India is South West Asia and the Gulf is Middle East under BOTH zone definitions, so the cell lookup is not in doubt — only whether Etihad metal prices off the same grid.

Feed it: 35,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 35,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 35,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1)

Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ the Gulf — TAP Miles&Go

Star Alliance

TAP Miles&Go prices Star partner metal off its region chart, and the 4-May-2026 devaluation lifted its long-haul cells. A cell holds only while the itinerary stays inside two TAP regions — a build that crosses a third region is billed flight by flight and summed. Lufthansa-group metal carries the heaviest surcharges on Star. Mirrored from maa-auh: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 60,000 is the maa-auh number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of maa-auh — TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the maa-auh economy cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.

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)

oneworld partner metal, AAdvantage region award — or Qatar via DOH, or Qatar Airways via DOH, or Oman Air via MCT

Qatar AirwaysOman Air oneworld

AAdvantage prices partner awards on a fixed region-to-region chart. A valid oneworld routing is assumed.

Feed it: 90,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 180,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 60,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (2:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

Etihad nonstop — an Aeroplan SELECT PARTNER (dynamic column); Air India no longer flies Abu Dhabi

Etihad Airways

The Select floor and the fixed cell both read 22,500 in this band, but they are different promises: Etihad rides Aeroplan's dynamic "Starting at" column, so 22,500 is a floor, not a fare. Reconciled 2026-08-06 with maa-auh; price it live before you transfer.

Estimate Etihad is one of Aeroplan's named SELECT PARTNERS ("Select Partners include United Airlines, Emirates, Flydubai, Etihad Airways…"), and the Flight Reward Chart prices that column DYNAMICALLY. The 1,001-2,000-mile Within-Atlantic band this 1,843-mile hop reads prints "Starting at" floors of 12,500 economy / 22,500 business / 40,000 first for Air Canada and/or Select Partners — against a flat 15,000 / 22,500 / 40,000 for "All other partners", a cell that does NOT apply to Etihad metal. We carry the published Select floor, not the fixed cell; live quotes sit at or above it and climb in high-demand periods. No fixed-price Star partner flies this corridor either: Air India abandoned Abu Dhabi post-merger (data/airline-networks.yaml, notServed), and ET/MS/TK reach AUH only by backtracking through ADD/CAI/IST, which lands in the 4,001-6,000-mile band at 42,500 / 70,000.

Feed it: 11,250 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 22,500 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 56,250 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)

Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ the Gulf — Avianca LifeMiles

Star Alliance

LifeMiles publishes no chart: Avianca withdrew its public zone table in 2023 and prices Star partner awards off an unpublished internal grid — its one real edge. Business is the value cabin here; economy is mediocre. Mirrored from maa-auh: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 25,000 is the maa-auh number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of maa-auh — Avianca LifeMiles prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the maa-auh business cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. 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: 75,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 150,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 50,000 HDFC Reward Points (2:1)

Etihad nonstop AUH–MAA, or Oman Air via MCT — Flying Blue partner award (dynamic)

Etihad AirwaysOman Air

No SkyTeam metal touches Chennai — Chennai's own airline table lists no Air France, KLM, Korean, Vietnam, China Eastern, Kenya, Saudia or Delta. Flying Blue's Chennai door is its non-alliance partner Etihad (or Oman Air via MCT). Only economy and business are bookable with Miles on these partners — no first. Partner awards carry the operating carrier's surcharges (the published Oman Air datapoints run US$190–390 one-way), which Flying Blue does not publish per route.

Estimate Flying Blue is dynamic and prices partner awards PER SEGMENT (One Mile at a Time, 6-Jun-2024: "you're paying the per segment pricing anyway"). No SkyTeam carrier serves Chennai at all, so this row rides Etihad — a Flying Blue redemption partner since 27-Nov-2023 — nonstop: 2,966 km banded to 30,000 = 30,000 business. Bands anchored on published Flying Blue partner datapoints (business one-way: 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); economy is half of business, the one published economy anchor. Dates and demand move the real number.

Feed it: 30,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 15,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 30,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)

Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ the Gulf — Aegean Miles+Bonus

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 AUH → MAA and MAA → AUH 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: 75,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.5:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 150,000 RBL Reward Points (5:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 50,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.67:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ the Gulf — United MileagePlus

Star Alliance

United went fully dynamic in 2020 (no fixed chart), so this is a typical Saver partner level on Star metal for this pair. But Aeroplan often prices the same Star seat lower. Mirrored from maa-auh: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 32,500 is the maa-auh number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of maa-auh — United MileagePlus prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the maa-auh business cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. United MileagePlus Saver partner level, India ⇄ the Gulf 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: 16,250 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 81,250 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2) · 67,500 Amex Membership Rewards (2.08:1 via Marriott Bonvoy)

Etihad Airways own metal from AUH, distance-band award (total distance flown)

Etihad Airways

Etihad Airways own-metal Abu Dhabi→Chennai. Etihad's carrier-imposed surcharges are real but materially lighter than Emirates' — the cash side on an Abu Dhabi award is usually tens of dollars plus destination taxes, not hundreds of pounds, which is most of why Etihad Guest out-values Skywards on the same corridor. Etihad Guest is fully dynamic: eco/biz are the fixed-rate Promo/Saver Award starting levels for the route's one-way distance band (the structure Etihad last published, still the working estimate in 2026), and the ranges run up to the 'any available seat paid with miles' standard prices you'll actually see when the cheap inventory is gone. Fixed-rate space is limited — treat the low end as a target, not a quote. first appears only on the five routes Etihad currently flies the A380 with First Apartments (LHR, CDG, SIN, YYZ, NRT); Bangkok joins on 25 Oct 2026 and is deliberately left without a first price until it flies. New York lost the A380 in June 2025, so JFK has no First. Shanghai, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, Auckland and Dubai are absent because Etihad does not fly them from Abu Dhabi today. A valid Etihad Airways routing is assumed.

Estimate Dynamic/unpublished-chart program — estimate is the typical one-way business level Abu Dhabi→Chennai (range 35k–74k); not a fixed chart price, never THE PLAY.

Feed it: 17,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 35,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 87,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)

Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ the Gulf — Copa ConnectMiles (fixed region chart)

Star Alliance

Copa ConnectMiles prices Star partner metal off a FIXED region chart (India sits in Copa’s "Central Asia" zone). 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. Copa's partner chart is a strictly upper-triangular region matrix — one cell per unordered region pair, no direction axis at all — so 35,000 is the same published cell as maa-auh, re-read off the official Copa PDF on 2026-08-06 rather than inferred.

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)

Oman Air via MCT (oneworld partner award), India ⇄ the Gulf — Alaska Atmos

Oman AirQatar Airways oneworld

Alaska Atmos bands the TOTAL DISTANCE FLOWN, not the nonstop great circle, so a connecting build can read a higher band than the map suggests — plus the $20 partner booking fee per person each way (up from $12.50 on 1-Jul-2026). Mirrored from maa-auh: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 50,000 is the maa-auh number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of maa-auh — Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the maa-auh business cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.

Feed it: 120,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.4:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 240,000 RBL Reward Points (4.8:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 80,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ the Gulf — TAP Miles&Go

Star Alliance

TAP Miles&Go prices Star partner metal off its region chart, and the 4-May-2026 devaluation lifted its long-haul cells. A cell holds only while the itinerary stays inside two TAP regions — a build that crosses a third region is billed flight by flight and summed. Lufthansa-group metal carries the heaviest surcharges on Star. Mirrored from maa-auh: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 80,000 is the maa-auh number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of maa-auh — TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the maa-auh business cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.

Feed it: 195,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.44:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 390,000 RBL Reward Points (4.88:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 130,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.63:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

Etihad nonstop AUH–MAA — Vietnam Lotusmiles partner award

Etihad Airways

LotusMiles deducts miles PER FLIGHT SEGMENT on its SkyTeam partner table (official chart, effective 1-Aug-2025), so a connecting build is a SUM of its sectors, not one cell. India is "SW Asia" on that table. Mirrored from maa-auh: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 70,000 is the maa-auh number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of maa-auh — Vietnam Airlines Lotusmiles prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the maa-auh business cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. Etihad is a named Lotusmiles redemption partner — Vietnam Airlines' own partner table lists EY with award booking classes I (business) and N (economy) — and it flies MAA–AUH nonstop. The price is the published Southwest Asia x Middle East cell (35,000 economy / 70,000 business one-way). Estimated, not verified, for one reason: Lotusmiles publishes that 11-zone table for SkyTeam metal plus China Southern and ANA, and points non-SkyTeam partners at a separate 10-zone "Award Zone Definition on Other Airlines" whose mileage table Vietnam Airlines does not publish anywhere. India is South West Asia and the Gulf is Middle East under BOTH zone definitions, so the cell lookup is not in doubt — only whether Etihad metal prices off the same grid.

Feed it: 70,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 70,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 70,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1)

oneworld partner metal, AAdvantage region award — or Qatar via DOH, or Qatar Airways via DOH, or Oman Air via MCT

Qatar AirwaysOman Air oneworld

AAdvantage prices partner awards on a fixed region-to-region chart. A valid oneworld routing is assumed.

Feed it: 120,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 240,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 80,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (2:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

Etihad nonstop — an Aeroplan SELECT PARTNER (dynamic column); Air India no longer flies Abu Dhabi

Etihad Airways

40,000 is the published Select-Partner floor for the 1,001-2,000-mile Within-Atlantic band, not a fixed price: Etihad rides Aeroplan's dynamic column, so treat it as a starting point, confirm the live quote, and confirm the cabin exists on the aircraft you are booking. Reconciled 2026-08-06 with maa-auh.

Estimate Etihad is one of Aeroplan's named SELECT PARTNERS ("Select Partners include United Airlines, Emirates, Flydubai, Etihad Airways…"), and the Flight Reward Chart prices that column DYNAMICALLY. The 1,001-2,000-mile Within-Atlantic band this 1,843-mile hop reads prints "Starting at" floors of 12,500 economy / 22,500 business / 40,000 first for Air Canada and/or Select Partners — against a flat 15,000 / 22,500 / 40,000 for "All other partners", a cell that does NOT apply to Etihad metal. We carry the published Select floor, not the fixed cell; live quotes sit at or above it and climb in high-demand periods. No fixed-price Star partner flies this corridor either: Air India abandoned Abu Dhabi post-merger (data/airline-networks.yaml, notServed), and ET/MS/TK reach AUH only by backtracking through ADD/CAI/IST, which lands in the 4,001-6,000-mile band at 42,500 / 70,000.

Feed it: 20,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 40,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 100,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)