Bangkok to Bengaluru on points

Thai Airways International own metal from BKK, region award

Thai Airways Star Alliance

Thai Airways International own-metal Bangkok→Bengaluru. Royal Orchid Plus awards on Thai metal carry carrier-imposed (YQ/YR) surcharges plus government taxes and Thai airport fees — the Europe and Japan/Korea long-hauls carry the heaviest cash add-on, so these are points-plus-cash redemptions. A valid Thai Airways International routing is assumed.

Feed it: 8,750 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 17,500 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 17,500 SBI Travel Credits (1:1)

Air India via DEL (BKK–DEL–BLR, mainline one award — Star Alliance), Value tier

Air India Star Alliance

Region-tier award: SE Asia is a flat 12,000 in the April-2026 chart, and BKK–DEL–BLR rides entirely on AI mainline metal, so the domestic feeder is included in the single tier price — NOT blr-del 7k + del-bkk 12k summed. The cheapest seat to Bangkok from Bengaluru on points. Mirrored from blr-bkk: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 12,000 is the blr-bkk 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 — revenue-based BluChip pricing

IndiGo

IndiGo flies the nonstop and a BluChip is worth ₹0.40-0.60 against the 6E fare, no chart. It will never beat Thai's 27,500 Royal Silk for drama, but for a cheap seat to Bangkok it's the program most Indians already hold. Mirrored from blr-bkk: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 20,000 is the blr-bkk number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-bkk — the chart prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this mirrors the blr-bkk 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 ~1,548 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))

Star Alliance metal (SQ/TG partner metal — CA itself flies only Delhi from India), Southeast Asia→India — Air China PhoenixMiles

Singapore AirlinesThai Airways Star Alliance

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). Mirrored from blr-bkk: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 15,000 is the blr-bkk number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-bkk — the chart prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this mirrors the blr-bkk economy cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. 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: 18,750 HSBC Reward Points (1.25:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 45,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 90,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

Cathay Pacific via HKG (oneworld), Standard award — cumulative-distance pricing

Cathay Pacific oneworld

BKK-HKG-BLR is ~3,507 flown miles — the 2,751-5,000 band at 20,000 Standard, no India type-2 premium up there. But it's a Hong Kong dog-leg north-east then back south-west (~2.3× the nonstop). Air India's 12,000 and Thai's nonstop both win; a row for stranded SBI-fed Asia Miles only. Mirrored from blr-bkk: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 20,000 is the blr-bkk number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-bkk — the chart prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this mirrors the blr-bkk economy cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.

Feed it: 40,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1) · 20,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 120,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

Star Alliance partner metal, Southeast Asia→India — United MileagePlus

Star Alliance

United went fully dynamic in 2020 (no fixed chart), so ~20,000 is a typical Saver partner level to Southeast Asia. But Aeroplan often prices the same Star seat lower, so compare before burning United miles. Mirrored from blr-bkk: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 20,000 is the blr-bkk number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-bkk — the chart prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this mirrors the blr-bkk economy cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. United MileagePlus Saver partner level, India→Southeast Asia 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: 10,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 50,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2) · 60,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy)

Star Alliance partner metal, Southeast Asia→India — Avianca LifeMiles

Star Alliance

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. Mirrored from blr-bkk: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 20,000 is the blr-bkk number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-bkk — the chart prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this mirrors the blr-bkk 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: 60,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 120,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 40,000 HDFC Reward Points (2:1)

Thai Airways nonstop — Star Alliance partner award, fixed Miles & More chart

Thai Airways Star Alliance

The same fixed partner chart — the one the 3-Jun-2025 dynamic switch left alone — prices India↔South East Asia economy at 42,000 miles RETURN, halved to 21,000 one-way by Miles & More’s published one-way rule (General terms and conditions for Award Flights, §1.1: a single leg costs “50% fewer miles than a standard Award Flight”). It does not win here: Thai Royal Orchid Plus prices the same cabin at 17,500. What it buys is a FIXED number and a partner-metal cash bill. Thai Airways flies it nonstop. Burn a stranded Miles & More balance here if you must; the business cell at 37,500 is where this chart actually earns its keep. The chart is miles-only: the PDF still makes you pay “taxes, fees, airline surcharges payable to the respective airlines”, so the cash bill follows the OPERATING carrier — which is exactly why partner metal escapes the EUR 395–885 one-way that Lufthansa and SWISS own metal carries.

Feed it: 52,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2) · 21,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:1) · 105,000 HDFC Reward Points (5:1 via Wyndham Rewards)

Singapore Airlines via SIN (one stop), Saver

Singapore Airlines Star Alliance

Zone 6 → Zone 3 (Thailand) on the official 1-Nov-2025 chart: 20,000 Saver for two SQ legs through Changi. Above ROP's nonstop and above Air India's flat 12,000, plus a Changi detour TG flies around — but it's the balance four Indian issuers actually mint. ASTERISKED: SQ concedes the routing can exceed maximum permitted mileage, so 20,000 is the published reference and a floor — the calculator may recompute the BKK-SIN-BLR MPM higher. Mirrored from blr-bkk: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 20,000 is the blr-bkk number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-bkk — the chart prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this mirrors the blr-bkk economy cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.

Feed it: 20,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 10,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 40,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1)

Malaysia Airlines via KUL (BKK–KUL–BLR) — Flying Blue partner award (dynamic), or Vietnam Airlines via HAN

Malaysia AirlinesVietnam Airlines

Flying Blue has no award chart, but its partner awards are additive per segment, so this routing bands to 22,500 economy (BKK–KUL 1,222 km → 7,500 + KUL–BLR 2,884 km → 15,000 = 22,500 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: BKK–KUL 1,222 km → 7,500 + KUL–BLR 2,884 km → 15,000 = 22,500 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: 22,500 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 11,250 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 22,500 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)

Star Alliance partner metal, Aeroplan distance-band award (2,492 km)

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: 12,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 25,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 62,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)

Star Alliance metal (Air India/SQ/TG — EVA itself serves no Indian city; the award rides partner metal), Southeast Asia→India — EVA Infinity MileageLands

Air IndiaSingapore AirlinesThai Airways Star Alliance

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). 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.

Feed it: 25,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 166,667 Amex Membership Rewards (6.67:1 via Hilton Honors) · 625,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (25:1 via Hilton Honors)

oneworld partner metal, AAdvantage region award — or Malaysia Airlines via KUL, or SriLankan Airlines via CMB

Malaysia AirlinesSriLankan Airlines oneworld

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

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 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (2:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

SriLankan Airlines via CMB (oneworld partner award), Southeast Asia→India — Alaska Atmos

SriLankan AirlinesMalaysia Airlines oneworld

Alaska Atmos bands the TOTAL DISTANCE FLOWN, not the nonstop great circle: the cheapest Atmos routing is SriLankan Airlines via CMB, ~1,928 flown miles against a 1,548-mile nonstop, which reads the Asia-Pacific chart's 1,501-3,000 mi band — 25,000 economy / 50,000 business one-way, plus the $20 partner booking fee per person each way (up from $12.50 on 1-Jul-2026). One-way. Mirrored from blr-bkk: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 25,000 is the blr-bkk number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-bkk — the chart prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this mirrors the blr-bkk 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)

Star Alliance partner metal, Southeast Asia→India — 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 BKK → BLR and BLR → BKK 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, Southeast Asia→India — Copa ConnectMiles (fixed region chart)

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. 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 blr-bkk, 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)

Star Alliance partner metal, Southeast Asia→India — TAP Miles&Go

Star Alliance

TAP's 4 May 2026 chart repriced India — which sits in its "Asia" origin zone — and intra-Asia went from 40k/60k to 50k/70k one-way, still flat regardless of distance (fine to Tokyo, poor to Colombo). The Gulf was carved out into a Middle East zone of its own at 60k/80k, so Bangkok now undercuts Dubai. Heavy fuel surcharges on Lufthansa-group and TAP metal; steer via Turkish, EgyptAir or Ethiopian to dodge the YQ. Mirrored from blr-bkk: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 50,000 is the blr-bkk number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-bkk — the chart prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this mirrors the blr-bkk economy 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)

Thai Airways International own metal from BKK, region award

Thai Airways Star Alliance

Thai Airways International own-metal Bangkok→Bengaluru. Royal Orchid Plus awards on Thai metal carry carrier-imposed (YQ/YR) surcharges plus government taxes and Thai airport fees — the Europe and Japan/Korea long-hauls carry the heaviest cash add-on, so these are points-plus-cash redemptions. A valid Thai Airways International routing is assumed.

Feed it: 13,750 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 27,500 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 27,500 SBI Travel Credits (1:1)

Star Alliance metal (SQ/TG partner metal — CA itself flies only Delhi from India), Southeast Asia→India — Air China PhoenixMiles

Singapore AirlinesThai Airways Star Alliance

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). Mirrored from blr-bkk: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 27,000 is the blr-bkk number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-bkk — the chart prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this mirrors the blr-bkk business cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. 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: 66,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.44:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 132,000 RBL Reward Points (4.89:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 33,750 HSBC Reward Points (1.25:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL))

Star Alliance partner metal, Southeast Asia→India — Avianca LifeMiles

Star Alliance

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. Mirrored from blr-bkk: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 37,000 is the blr-bkk number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-bkk — the chart prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this mirrors the blr-bkk 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: 111,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 222,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 74,000 HDFC Reward Points (2:1)

Thai Airways nonstop — Star Alliance partner award, fixed Miles & More chart

Thai Airways Star Alliance

Miles & More's PARTNER chart is the one thing the 3-Jun-2025 switch to dynamic pricing did not touch, and the official Award Flight chart (correct as of 3 March 2026) gives INDIA its own region, separate from South East Asia and from Central Asia/Far East. India↔South East Asia in business is 75,000 miles RETURN. The halving is published, not assumed: Miles & More's General terms and conditions for Award Flights, §1.1 One-way Award Flight, reads “One-way Award Flights allow you to book an Award Flight for a single leg for 50% fewer miles than a standard Award Flight”, and carves out only Lufthansa/SWISS/Austrian metal, where the saving tracks the dynamic online offer. That puts this corridor at 37,500 one-way, fixed and published — the single best use of a Miles & More balance from India. It does not win here: Thai Royal Orchid Plus prices the same cabin at 27,500. What it buys is a FIXED number and a partner-metal cash bill. Thai Airways flies it nonstop. Thai releases partner Saver business far more freely than Singapore Airlines does, which is what makes this cell bookable rather than theoretical. The chart is miles-only: the PDF still makes you pay “taxes, fees, airline surcharges payable to the respective airlines”, so the cash bill follows the OPERATING carrier — which is exactly why partner metal escapes the EUR 395–885 one-way that Lufthansa and SWISS own metal carries.

Feed it: 93,750 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2) · 37,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:1) · 187,500 HDFC Reward Points (5:1 via Wyndham Rewards)

Star Alliance partner metal, Southeast Asia→India — United MileagePlus

Star Alliance

United went fully dynamic in 2020 (no fixed chart), so ~40,000 is a typical Saver partner level to Southeast Asia. But Aeroplan often prices the same Star seat lower, so compare before burning United miles. Mirrored from blr-bkk: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 40,000 is the blr-bkk number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-bkk — the chart prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this mirrors the blr-bkk business cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. United MileagePlus Saver partner level, India→Southeast Asia 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)

Air India via DEL (BKK–DEL–BLR, mainline one award — Star Alliance), Value tier

Air India Star Alliance

Flat 50,000 SE Asia business (region tier), connection on AI metal included (BKK–DEL–BLR, one award, not a leg-sum). Thai's 27,500 nonstop is the sharper premium buy; Maharaja's case on the Bengaluru→Bangkok board is the 12,000 economy. Mirrored from blr-bkk: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 50,000 is the blr-bkk 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: 50,000 IndusInd Reward Points (1:1) · 25,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 50,000 ICICI Reward Points (1:1)

oneworld partner metal, AAdvantage region award — or Malaysia Airlines via KUL, or SriLankan Airlines via CMB

Malaysia AirlinesSriLankan Airlines 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)

Star Alliance metal (Air India/SQ/TG — EVA itself serves no Indian city; the award rides partner metal), Southeast Asia→India — EVA Infinity MileageLands

Air IndiaSingapore AirlinesThai Airways Star Alliance

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). 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.

Feed it: 42,500 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 283,334 Amex Membership Rewards (6.67:1 via Hilton Honors) · 1,062,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (25:1 via Hilton Honors)

Malaysia Airlines via KUL (BKK–KUL–BLR) — Flying Blue partner award (dynamic), or Vietnam Airlines via HAN

Malaysia AirlinesVietnam Airlines

Flying Blue has no award chart, but its partner awards are additive per segment, so this routing bands to 45,000 business (BKK–KUL 1,222 km → 15,000 + KUL–BLR 2,884 km → 30,000 = 45,000 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: BKK–KUL 1,222 km → 15,000 + KUL–BLR 2,884 km → 30,000 = 45,000 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: 45,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 22,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 45,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)

Star Alliance partner metal, Southeast Asia→India — 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 BKK → BLR and BLR → BKK 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: 120,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.67:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 240,000 RBL Reward Points (5.33:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 80,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.78:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

Star Alliance partner metal, Aeroplan distance-band award (2,492 km)

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: 23,750 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 47,500 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 118,750 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)

SriLankan Airlines via CMB (oneworld partner award), Southeast Asia→India — Alaska Atmos

SriLankan AirlinesMalaysia Airlines oneworld

Alaska Atmos bands the TOTAL DISTANCE FLOWN, not the nonstop great circle: the cheapest Atmos routing is SriLankan Airlines via CMB, ~1,928 flown miles against a 1,548-mile nonstop, which reads the Asia-Pacific chart's 1,501-3,000 mi band — 25,000 economy / 50,000 business one-way, plus the $20 partner booking fee per person each way (up from $12.50 on 1-Jul-2026). One-way. Mirrored from blr-bkk: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 50,000 is the blr-bkk number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-bkk — the chart prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this mirrors the blr-bkk 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)

Singapore Airlines via SIN (one stop), Saver

Singapore Airlines Star Alliance

47,500 Saver in business via Changi — 1.7× Thai's 27,500 Royal Silk nonstop on the same corridor, for a seat you'd fly with an extra stop and a detour. Zone 6 → Zone 3, asterisked (over-MPM routing recomputes above the printed fare). A completeness row; ROP wins outright. Mirrored from blr-bkk: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 47,500 is the blr-bkk number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-bkk — the chart prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this mirrors the blr-bkk business cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.

Feed it: 47,500 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 23,750 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 95,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1)

Star Alliance partner metal, Southeast Asia→India — TAP Miles&Go

Star Alliance

TAP's 4 May 2026 chart repriced India — which sits in its "Asia" origin zone — and intra-Asia went from 40k/60k to 50k/70k one-way, still flat regardless of distance (fine to Tokyo, poor to Colombo). The Gulf was carved out into a Middle East zone of its own at 60k/80k, so Bangkok now undercuts Dubai. Heavy fuel surcharges on Lufthansa-group and TAP metal; steer via Turkish, EgyptAir or Ethiopian to dodge the YQ. Mirrored from blr-bkk: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 70,000 is the blr-bkk number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-bkk — the chart prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this mirrors the blr-bkk business cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.

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)

Cathay Pacific business via HKG (oneworld), Standard award — cumulative-distance pricing

Cathay Pacific oneworld

60,000 Standard for two Cathay business sectors through Hong Kong — 2.2× Thai's 27,500 Royal Silk nonstop on the same board. The backtrack adds ~3 hours and Standard space must line up on both legs; completeness for Asia Miles balances, nothing more. Mirrored from blr-bkk: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 60,000 is the blr-bkk number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-bkk — the chart prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this mirrors the blr-bkk business cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.

Feed it: 120,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1) · 60,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 300,000 RBL Reward Points (5:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

Star Alliance partner metal, Southeast Asia→India — Copa ConnectMiles (fixed region chart)

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. Copa's partner chart is a strictly upper-triangular region matrix — one cell per unordered region pair, no direction axis at all — so 60,000 is the same published cell as blr-bkk, re-read off the official Copa PDF on 2026-08-06 rather than inferred.

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 Malaysia Airlines via KUL, or SriLankan Airlines via CMB

Malaysia AirlinesSriLankan Airlines oneworld

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

Feed it: 150,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 300,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 100,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (2:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

Star Alliance partner metal, Aeroplan distance-band award (2,492 km)

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: 27,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 55,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 137,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)