Award route card · one-way
The shortest corridor on the board and the cheapest fixed award in the book: 3,000 Maharaja points to Dabolim after the April-2026 cut, ₹2,400 at house value on a route where cash swings from ₹2.5k in monsoon to ₹8k+ around New Year. That swing is the whole game — the fixed award is dead money in July and a steal in December, exactly when IndiGo's chart-less BluChip pricing balloons with the fare. No business row: nothing is published for this hop and 75 minutes doesn't buy a J story. Book the Maharaja seat for peak season or don't bother.
The play · economy
Feed it: 3,000 IndusInd Reward Points (1:1) · 1,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 3,000 ICICI Reward Points (1:1)
| Program | Metal / routing | Points | Surcharge | All-in ₹ | vs play |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air India Maharaja Points | Air India nonstop to Dabolim (Star Alliance), Value tier | 3,000 | — | ₹2,400 | the play |
| IndiGo BluChip | IndiGo nonstop (Dabolim + Mopa) — 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 from 4,000 to 3,000 in April 2026; the chart's new domestic floor is 1,500 and Hyderabad–Goa (Mopa) fell to 2,500. Single community datapoint (magnify.club) — Air India publishes no public chart page. Air India Express and IndiGo also fly Mumbai–Goa; the chart row is mainline metal. ₹2,400 of points only beats cash in peak season.
Feed it: 3,000 IndusInd Reward Points (1:1) · 1,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 3,000 ICICI Reward Points (1:1)
IndiGo serves both Goa airports from Mumbai, but BluChip prices off the live fare (dynamic ₹0.40–0.60 per BluChip, no chart) — so a New-Year hop costs triple a monsoon one in points too. On a route this seasonal, the revenue-priced "award" is just the expensive ticket wearing points.
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)