Bengaluru to Tokyo on points

Japan Airlines nonstop to Narita (oneworld), base award

Japan Airlines oneworld

17,500 base miles one-way on JAL's own BLR-Narita nonstop — the same India↔Japan base rate that survived the June-2025 hikes, now bookable from Bengaluru without a connection. Directly fed: HSBC 1:1, Axis EDGE 1:2, SBI 2:1. When base space is gone, dynamic "PLUS" pricing balloons past 130,000 — never pay it.

Feed it: 8,750 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 17,500 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 43,750 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)

Star Alliance metal (SQ/TG partner metal — CA itself flies only Delhi from India), India→Japan — 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).

Estimate 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: 27,500 HSBC Reward Points (1.25:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 60,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.73:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 120,000 RBL Reward Points (5.45:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

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

Cathay Pacific oneworld

BLR-HKG-NRT totals ~4,298 flown miles — the 2,751-5,000 band at 20,000 Standard, the band charging India no type-2 premium. 2,500 over JAL's 17,500 nonstop, plus a Hong Kong dog-leg; a row for SBI-fed Asia Miles, not the play.

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)

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

Cathay PacificMalaysia AirlinesSriLankan Airlines oneworld

AAdvantage prices partner awards on a fixed region-to-region chart. First is the chart’s top cabin for this region pair, so the cell is easier to read than to book wherever no oneworld carrier flies a first cabin on the sector. That region-to-region cell is the PAIR, not the direction: every Indian-Subcontinent cell reads identically from either origin chart, so this heading has one published number.

Feed it: 67,500 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 135,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 45,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (2:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

Air India via DEL/BOM to Tokyo–Haneda (Star Alliance) — no AI BLR–Tokyo nonstop; AI flies Haneda, not Narita

Air India Star Alliance

One all-AI-mainline award: BLR–DEL–HND, both legs Air India metal, so the feeder is included in the single region price. The Apr-2026 chart prices all of East Asia at a flat 30,000 economy; AI serves Tokyo via Haneda (Narita is terminated for AI). No BLR–Tokyo nonstop on AI, and the East-Asia business tier isn't published route-level — economy is the only honest Air India row here. JAL's 17,500 nonstop wins; this is completeness.

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: 30,000 IndusInd Reward Points (1:1) · 15,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 30,000 ICICI Reward Points (1:1)

Star Alliance partner metal, India→Japan — 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. 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)

Japan Airlines nonstop BLR-NRT (oneworld partner award), India→Japan — Alaska Atmos

Japan AirlinesCathay PacificSriLankan Airlines oneworld

Japan Airlines flies BLR-NRT nonstop, ~4,164 miles, and Alaska Atmos bands partner awards by distance flown — the Asia-Pacific chart's 3,001-5,000 mi band: 30,000 economy / 60,000 business one-way, plus the $20 partner booking fee per person each way (up from $12.50 on 1-Jul-2026). One-way.

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→Japan — 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.

Estimate 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: 96,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 192,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 64,000 HDFC Reward Points (2:1)

Star Alliance partner metal, India→Japan — United MileagePlus

Star Alliance

United went fully dynamic in 2020 (no fixed chart), so ~32,500 is a typical Saver partner level to Japan. But Aeroplan often prices the same Star seat lower, so compare before burning United miles.

Estimate United MileagePlus Saver partner level, India→Japan 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)

Star Alliance partner metal, India→Japan — 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.

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 metal (SQ/TG — EVA itself serves no Indian city; the award rides partner metal), India→Japan — EVA Infinity MileageLands

Singapore 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).

Feed it: 40,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 266,667 Amex Membership Rewards (6.67:1 via Hilton Honors) · 1,000,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (25:1 via Hilton Honors)

Star Alliance partner award via hub (SQ/TG metal) — JAL is oneworld, not Aeroplan-bookable

Singapore AirlinesThai AirwaysJapan Airlines

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 nrt-blr: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 40,000 is the nrt-blr number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

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

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

Etihad Airways via AUH (BLR–AUH–NRT), or Malaysia Airlines via KUL (BLR–KUL–NRT), or Japan Airlines nonstop — Flying Blue partner award (dynamic)

Etihad AirwaysMalaysia AirlinesJapan Airlines

Flying Blue prices dynamically — no fixed chart — and bills partner awards PER SEGMENT, so a connection is a sum. Air France/KLM pass carrier (YQ) surcharges on own metal, and only economy and business are bookable on partners. Mirrored from nrt-blr: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 40,000 is the nrt-blr number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of nrt-blr — Air France-KLM Flying Blue prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the nrt-blr economy cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. 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 Etihad Airways (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: NRT–AUH 8,089 km ⇄ 25,000 + AUH–BLR 2,723 km ⇄ 15,000 = 40,000 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: 40,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 20,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 40,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)

Star Alliance partner metal, India→Japan — 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.

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

Zone 6 → Zone 7 (Japan & Korea) on the official 1-Nov-2025 chart: 42,000 Saver for two SQ legs through Changi — 2.4× JAL's own 17,500 nonstop, for a ~5-hour southbound detour. ASTERISKED, re-read off the chart PDF 2026-08-02: the cell prints 42* and the footnote drops the reference fare for routes "exceeding the maximum permitted mileage between two zones" — there is no India–Japan SQ nonstop, so the SIN routing backtracks and 42,000 is the published reference and a floor. Exists because KrisFlyer is the balance four Indian issuers hold; the JAL nonstop is the buy.

Feed it: 42,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 21,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 84,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1)

Vietnam Airlines via HAN (BLR–HAN–NRT) — Vietnam LotusMiles

Vietnam Airlines SkyTeam

LotusMiles deducts miles PER FLIGHT SEGMENT on its SkyTeam partner table (official chart, effective 1-Aug-2025), and no SkyTeam carrier flies BLR–NRT nonstop — so the price is a SUM, not one cell. Cheapest verified SkyTeam build is Vietnam Airlines BLR–HAN–NRT — per-segment: BLR–HAN 50,000 (SW Asia × SE Asia) + HAN–NRT 50,000 (SE Asia × NE Asia 2) = 100,000. Bengaluru is a HANOI-attributed Vietnam Airlines station and VN flies HAN–NRT NONSTOP (Hanoi's own airlines-and-destinations table lists the nonstop and so does the far end's, dual-sourced 2026-08-01), so the Saigon leg is not a segment this itinerary flies: the build is TWO segments, not three. CORRECTED 2026-08-01 — the board previously priced BLR–HAN–SGN–NRT at 120,000, one HAN–SGN segment too many. Cheaper on paper and still DECLINED on routing: Etihad BLR–AUH–NRT sums to 80,000 economy, but it flies 1.61x the great circle — west to the Gulf before doubling back east to Japan. The desk refused exactly this shape on blr-icn/hyd-icn/bom-icn (2026-08-01). Overpricing is the safe error direction on a board that crowns THE PLAY by cheapest VERIFIED row. India is South West Asia on that table and Japan/Korea are Northeast Asia 2 — the row Vietnam Airlines prices on a different curve entirely (Tokyo/Osaka/Seoul business is DEARER than Hong Kong at 110,000 a segment, while economy is cheaper at 50,000). LotusMiles' own SGN/HAN metal runs off a separate chart (25k/60k one-way). One-way.

Feed it: 100,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 100,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 100,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1)

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

Cathay PacificMalaysia AirlinesSriLankan Airlines oneworld

AAdvantage prices partner awards on a fixed region-to-region chart. First is the chart’s top cabin for this region pair, so the cell is easier to read than to book wherever no oneworld carrier flies a first cabin on the sector. That region-to-region cell is the PAIR, not the direction: every Indian-Subcontinent cell reads identically from either origin chart, so this heading has one published number.

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 (SQ/TG partner metal — CA itself flies only Delhi from India), India→Japan — 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).

Estimate 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: 50,000 HSBC Reward Points (1.25:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 105,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.63:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 210,000 RBL Reward Points (5.25:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

Japan Airlines nonstop to Narita (oneworld), base award

Japan Airlines oneworld

40,000 base miles one-way in business on the BLR-Narita nonstop — the best chart rate any directly-fed program posts to Tokyo, and now a nonstop from Bengaluru. HSBC TravelOne's instant 1:1 makes this the low-friction play; the whole corridor is JMB's to lose.

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

Star Alliance partner metal, India→Japan — 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. 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, India→Japan — United MileagePlus

Star Alliance

United went fully dynamic in 2020 (no fixed chart), so ~55,000 is a typical Saver partner level to Japan. But Aeroplan often prices the same Star seat lower, so compare before burning United miles.

Estimate United MileagePlus Saver partner level, India→Japan 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: 27,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 137,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2) · 120,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.18:1 via Marriott Bonvoy)

Star Alliance partner metal, India→Japan — 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.

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 legs through Hong Kong — 1.5× JAL's 40,000 nonstop and a longer trip. SBI feeds Asia Miles 1:1 with no hotel gymnastics, but on this corridor JAL's own chart wins and it's not close. Standard space capped; dynamic "Choice" takes over when it's gone.

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, India→Japan — 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.

Estimate 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: 180,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 360,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 120,000 HDFC Reward Points (2:1)

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

Singapore 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).

Feed it: 60,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 400,000 Amex Membership Rewards (6.67:1 via Hilton Honors) · 1,500,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (25:1 via Hilton Honors)

Japan Airlines nonstop BLR-NRT (oneworld partner award), India→Japan — Alaska Atmos

Japan AirlinesCathay PacificSriLankan Airlines oneworld

Japan Airlines flies BLR-NRT nonstop, ~4,164 miles, and Alaska Atmos bands partner awards by distance flown — the Asia-Pacific chart's 3,001-5,000 mi band: 30,000 economy / 60,000 business one-way, plus the $20 partner booking fee per person each way (up from $12.50 on 1-Jul-2026). One-way.

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)

Star Alliance partner metal, India→Japan — 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.

Feed it: 165,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.54:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 330,000 RBL Reward Points (5.08:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 110,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.69:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

Star Alliance partner award via hub (SQ/TG metal) — JAL is oneworld, not Aeroplan-bookable

Singapore AirlinesThai AirwaysJapan Airlines

Bengaluru→Tokyo prices at 75,000 in business on the June-2026 chart — but JAL's nonstop is oneworld, so Aeroplan routes you via a Star hub (SIN on SQ, BKK on Thai, then ANA/partner metal to Japan). 1.9× JAL's own 40,000 nonstop; exists only because Aeroplan is reachable 1:1 from SBI and 1:2 from Atlas without touching a hotel program.

Feed it: 37,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 75,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 187,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)

Etihad Airways via AUH (BLR–AUH–NRT), or Malaysia Airlines via KUL (BLR–KUL–NRT), or Japan Airlines nonstop — Flying Blue partner award (dynamic)

Etihad AirwaysMalaysia AirlinesJapan Airlines

Flying Blue prices dynamically — no fixed chart — and bills partner awards PER SEGMENT, so a connection is a sum. Air France/KLM pass carrier (YQ) surcharges on own metal, and only economy and business are bookable on partners. Mirrored from nrt-blr: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 80,000 is the nrt-blr number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of nrt-blr — Air France-KLM Flying Blue prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the nrt-blr business cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. 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 Etihad Airways (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: NRT–AUH 8,089 km ⇄ 50,000 + AUH–BLR 2,723 km ⇄ 30,000 = 80,000 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: 80,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 40,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 80,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)

Singapore Airlines via SIN (one stop), Saver

Singapore Airlines Star Alliance

88,000 Saver in business via Changi — 2.2× JAL's 40,000 nonstop for a detour and an extra stop. Zone 6 → Zone 7 prints 88* on the chart PDF (re-read 2026-08-02), and the footnote drops the reference fare for routes "exceeding the maximum permitted mileage between two zones", so an over-MPM routing recomputes above the printed number. Direct-fed and bookable, but on this corridor the JAL nonstop is cheaper AND faster; completeness.

Feed it: 88,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 44,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 176,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1)

Vietnam Airlines via HAN (BLR–HAN–NRT) — Vietnam LotusMiles

Vietnam Airlines SkyTeam

LotusMiles deducts miles PER FLIGHT SEGMENT on its SkyTeam partner table (official chart, effective 1-Aug-2025), and no SkyTeam carrier flies BLR–NRT nonstop — so the price is a SUM, not one cell. Cheapest verified SkyTeam build is Vietnam Airlines BLR–HAN–NRT — per-segment: BLR–HAN 80,000 (SW Asia × SE Asia) + HAN–NRT 110,000 (SE Asia × NE Asia 2) = 190,000. Bengaluru is a HANOI-attributed Vietnam Airlines station and VN flies HAN–NRT NONSTOP (Hanoi's own airlines-and-destinations table lists the nonstop and so does the far end's, dual-sourced 2026-08-01), so the Saigon leg is not a segment this itinerary flies: the build is TWO segments, not three. CORRECTED 2026-08-01 — the board previously priced BLR–HAN–SGN–NRT at 235,000, one HAN–SGN segment too many. Etihad BLR–AUH–NRT is no longer even cheaper: it sums to 200,000 business against this 190,000, on top of flying 1.61x the great circle. India is South West Asia on that table and Japan/Korea are Northeast Asia 2 — the row Vietnam Airlines prices on a different curve entirely (Tokyo/Osaka/Seoul business is DEARER than Hong Kong at 110,000 a segment, while economy is cheaper at 50,000). LotusMiles' own SGN/HAN metal runs off a separate chart (25k/60k one-way). One-way.

Feed it: 190,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 190,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 190,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1)

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

Cathay PacificMalaysia AirlinesSriLankan Airlines oneworld

AAdvantage prices partner awards on a fixed region-to-region chart. First is the chart’s top cabin for this region pair, so the cell is easier to read than to book wherever no oneworld carrier flies a first cabin on the sector. That region-to-region cell is the PAIR, not the direction: every Indian-Subcontinent cell reads identically from either origin chart, so this heading has one published number.

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 award via hub (SQ/TG metal) — JAL is oneworld, not Aeroplan-bookable

Singapore AirlinesThai AirwaysJapan Airlines

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 nrt-blr: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 95,000 is the nrt-blr number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

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

Feed it: 47,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 95,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 237,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)