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Bengaluru to Mumbai on points

BLR → BOM great-circle 834 km · 518 mi — short-haul domestic trunk, ~1¾ hours 3 programs priced as of

Bengaluru → Mumbai on points: 5 options, the board now symmetric with Mumbai → Bengaluru. Award charts price the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so every program that prices the reverse heading is mirrored here — a mirror still flagged as an estimate never takes the crown. No row on this board is a verified chart price: every programme that reaches this corridor either prices it dynamically or is mirrored from the reverse heading, so the board carries estimates only and crowns nothing. No row on this board is a first-hand chart read.

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Economy

Every economy option on this corridor is dynamic-priced — no honest number to crown. The rows below say what we know.

Program Metal / routing Points Surcharge All-in ₹ vs play
Air India Maharaja Points Air India nonstop (Star Alliance), Value tier ~4,000 est. — ₹3,200 —
IndiGo BluChip IndiGo nonstop — BluChip, dynamic (revenue-priced) ~8,400 est. — ₹4,200 —
Air Canada Aeroplan Air India nonstop (Star Alliance partner award) ~7,500 est. — ₹7,500 —

Business

Every business option on this corridor is dynamic-priced — no honest number to crown. The rows below say what we know.

Program Metal / routing Points Surcharge All-in ₹ vs play
Air Canada Aeroplan Air India nonstop (Star Alliance partner award) ~12,500 est. — ₹12,500 —
Air India Maharaja Points Air India nonstop (Star Alliance), Value tier ~19,000 est. — ₹15,200 —

All-in ₹ = points × the program's house value (valuation index) + the sourced one-way surcharge; a dash means the carrier doesn't publish it and the ranking counts it ₹0 — the row's note carries the caveat. That surcharge is the airline's own cash charge on an award — YQ, as the notes below call it — and it is not the fuel-surcharge waiver your credit card advertises: that one hands back a hundred rupees or two at a petrol pump, this one runs to tens of thousands and decides whether the award is worth taking at all. “Dynamic” and estimated (~… est.) rows never compete for the play — the crown is always a verified, bookable price. Feed-ins come from the same transfer data as the optimizer, multi-hop chains included.

Chart-priced, not live seats. These prices are read off each programme’s published award chart and valued at our own house ₹/point. 37% of the 39,855 priced options on the board are stated estimates for programmes that publish no chart; they are marked ~ est. and never crowned the play. Nobody here can see whether a seat exists on your date — confirm the space with the programme before you transfer. Points that leave your issuer do not come back.

The cash on top of the miles. Air India Maharaja Points makes you liable for one if the operating airline levies it, without saying whether it does. Air Canada Aeroplan states it adds none on its own metal. Government taxes and airport charges are payable in every case. Almost no programme publishes the amount, so the desk carries each one’s policy in its own words — on its programme hub — rather than a number nobody published. 1 other programme priced here publishes nothing the desk could read.

Row by row

5 options · 3 sourced charts
Economy

Air India Maharaja Points

~4,000 pts est.

Air India nonstop (Star Alliance), Value tier

Air India Star Alliance

Held at 4,000 through the April-2026 overhaul (the chart's domestic floor fell to 1,500 — Bengaluru–Chennai). ₹3,200 at house value against ₹3–6k cash; a fair award only when the shuttle premium kicks in. Taxes unpublished.

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.

Feed it: 4,000 IndusInd Reward Points (1:1) · 2,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 4,000 ICICI Reward Points (1:1)

as of aviationa2z.com
Economy

IndiGo BluChip

~8,400 pts est.

IndiGo nonstop — BluChip, dynamic (revenue-priced)

IndiGo

IndiGo owns the corridor's frequency, but BluChip has no award chart — redemptions track the live fare at a dynamic ₹0.40–0.60 per BluChip, minimum 500, taxes cash-only. On a shuttle priced by the hour of the day, that's just the expensive ticket wearing points.

Estimate IndiGo BluChip is revenue-linked ~Rs0.50/pt; ~= typical one-way IndiGo economy fare / Rs0.50 for ~518 mi - a rupee offset that moves 1:1 with the live fare. Own-metal only, no partners.

Feed it: 12,600 HSBC Reward Points (1.5:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 42,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:1) · 25,200 HDFC Reward Points (3:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL))

as of cardinsider.com
Economy

Air Canada Aeroplan

~7,500 pts est.

Air India nonstop (Star Alliance partner award)

Air India Star Alliance

Aeroplan prices Star partner awards by total distance FLOWN — only a CA$39 partner booking fee plus taxes. First is the published top cabin for this band; a connecting routing that flies farther can land in the next band up. Mirrored from bom-blr: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 7,500 is the bom-blr number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of bom-blr — Air Canada Aeroplan prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the bom-blr economy cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.

Feed it: 3,750 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 7,500 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 18,750 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)

as of cardexpert.in
Business

Air Canada Aeroplan

~12,500 pts est.

Air India nonstop (Star Alliance partner award)

Air India Star Alliance

Aeroplan prices Star partner awards by total distance FLOWN — only a CA$39 partner booking fee plus taxes. First is the published top cabin for this band; a connecting routing that flies farther can land in the next band up. Mirrored from bom-blr: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 12,500 is the bom-blr number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of bom-blr — Air Canada Aeroplan prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the bom-blr business cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.

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

as of cardexpert.in
Business

Air India Maharaja Points

~19,000 pts est.

Air India nonstop (Star Alliance), Value tier

Air India Star Alliance

Trimmed 10% in April 2026 (21,000 → 19,000) — the cheapest route-level business award on any Indian metro trunk. Still ₹15,200 of points for 105 minutes in a recliner; a convenience burn, not a seat story.

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.

Feed it: 19,000 IndusInd Reward Points (1:1) · 9,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 19,000 ICICI Reward Points (1:1)

as of aviationa2z.com

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