Award route card · one-way
The cheapest fixed award in the entire book. Bengaluru–Chennai is the April-2026 chart's domestic floor — 1,500 Maharaja points, cut 25% from 2,000, ₹1,200 at house value on a 55-minute hop where cash runs ₹2–4k. Route-priced to the bone: 166 great-circle miles, the shortest mainline sector Air India sells on points. Business isn't published route-level and doesn't need to be — nobody redeems a recliner for under an hour. IndiGo owns the frequency, chart-less as ever. If you hold Maharaja points and fly this shuttle, 1,500 is the one domestic burn that always beats cash.
The play · economy
Feed it: 1,500 IndusInd Reward Points (1:1) · 750 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 1,500 ICICI Reward Points (1:1)
| Program | Metal / routing | Points | Surcharge | All-in ₹ | vs play |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air India Maharaja Points | Air India nonstop (Star Alliance), Value tier | 1,500 | — | ₹1,200 | the 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.
Cut 25% in April 2026 (2,000 → 1,500) — the chart's new domestic floor, and the single cheapest fixed award on the site. ₹1,200 at house value against ₹2–4k cash on a route this short is a rare clean win; taxes unpublished but trivial on a 55-minute sector.
Feed it: 1,500 IndusInd Reward Points (1:1) · 750 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 1,500 ICICI Reward Points (1:1)
IndiGo runs the shuttle at high frequency, but BluChip has no award chart — dynamic ₹0.40–0.60 per BluChip, minimum 500, taxes cash-only. On the corridor with the cheapest fixed Maharaja award going, the revenue-priced option is strictly the weaker plan.
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)