Award route card · one-way
The eastern trunk the Maharaja chart forgot. Air India Express, Akasa and IndiGo fly Bengaluru–Kolkata nonstop, but the April-2026 route table our sources publish never quotes a BLR–CCU number in either cabin — and this desk prints published prices, not tier guesses. So a 1,547-km corridor with no fixed award at all: BluChip tracks IndiGo's live fare at ₹0.40–0.60 a point, taxes cash-only, nothing to plan around. When Maharaja's route table surfaces this pair — or Air India puts mainline metal back on it — the corridor gets its anchor.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IndiGo BluChip | IndiGo nonstop — BluChip, dynamic (revenue-priced) | dynamic | — | — | — |
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. “Dynamic” rows never compete for the play. Feed-ins come from the same transfer data as the optimizer, multi-hop chains included.
IndiGo (alongside Akasa and Air India Express) flies Bengaluru–Kolkata nonstop, 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. The corridor's only "award," and Air India's mainline chart publishes no route-level price to challenge it.
Ways in: HSBC Reward Points 1.5:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL) · Axis EDGE Reward Points 5:1 · HDFC Reward Points 3:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)