Award flight · one-way
Cairo → Mumbai on points: 26 options, the same board the bom-cai direction carries. The cheapest verified business seat on the board is 30,000 via American Airlines AAdvantage, and economy starts at 17,500. 10 of them are mirrored from bom-cai — the desk priced that direction and has not separately derived this one — so they render as honest estimates, and an estimate never wears the crown here.
The play · economy
Which card mints this?
+7 more ways in — the full funnel, ratios and ₹/mile side by side →
One of your cards is in those 7 — see it in the funnel →
| Program | Metal / routing | Points | Surcharge | All-in ₹ | vs play |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines AAdvantage the play | oneworld partner metal, AAdvantage region award — or Qatar via DOH, or Royal Jordanian via AMM, or Qatar Airways via DOH, or Oman Air via MCT | 17,500 | — | ₹17,500 | the play |
| Copa Airlines ConnectMiles | Star Alliance partner metal, North Africa→India — Copa ConnectMiles (fixed region chart) | 20,000 | — | ₹20,000 | 1.1× |
| EgyptAir Plus | EgyptAir own metal from CAI, region award | 20,000 | — | ₹20,000 | 1.1× |
| Air France-KLM Flying Blue | SkyTeam metal, Flying Blue (dynamic) — Saudia via JED | ~25,000 est. | — | ₹25,000 | 1.4× |
| Avianca LifeMiles | Star Alliance partner metal, North Africa→India — Avianca LifeMiles | ~25,000 est. | — | ₹25,000 | 1.4× |
| Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards | Oman Air via MCT (oneworld partner award) — Alaska Atmos | ~25,000 est. | — | ₹25,000 | 1.4× |
| Air China PhoenixMiles | Star Alliance metal (LH/SQ/TG partner metal — CA itself flies only Delhi from India), North Africa→India — Air China PhoenixMiles | ~28,000 est. | — | ₹25,200 | 1.4× |
| Air Canada Aeroplan | Star Alliance partner metal, Aeroplan distance-band award (4,341 km) — or Ethiopian Airlines via ADD, or Turkish Airlines via IST | 30,000 | — | ₹30,000 | 1.7× |
| Aegean Miles+Bonus | Star Alliance partner metal, North Africa→India — Aegean Miles+Bonus | 35,000 | — | ₹35,000 | 2.0× |
| United MileagePlus | Star Alliance partner metal, North Africa→India — United MileagePlus | ~40,000 est. | — | ₹40,000 | 2.3× |
| EVA Air Infinity MileageLands | Star Alliance metal (Air India/LH/SQ/TG — EVA itself serves no Indian city; the award rides partner metal), North Africa→India — EVA Infinity MileageLands | 51,000 | — | ₹51,000 | 2.9× |
| TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go | Star Alliance partner metal, North Africa→India — TAP Miles&Go | ~80,000 est. | — | ₹64,000 | 3.7× |
The play · business
Which card mints this?
+7 more ways in — the full funnel, ratios and ₹/mile side by side →
One of your cards is in those 7 — see it in the funnel →
| Program | Metal / routing | Points | Surcharge | All-in ₹ | vs play |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines AAdvantage the play | oneworld partner metal, AAdvantage region award — or Qatar via DOH, or Royal Jordanian via AMM, or Qatar Airways via DOH, or Oman Air via MCT | 30,000 | — | ₹30,000 | the play |
| EgyptAir Plus | EgyptAir own metal from CAI, region award | 30,000 | — | ₹30,000 | 1.0× |
| Copa Airlines ConnectMiles | Star Alliance partner metal, North Africa→India — Copa ConnectMiles (fixed region chart) | 35,000 | — | ₹35,000 | 1.2× |
| Air Canada Aeroplan | Star Alliance partner metal, Aeroplan distance-band award (4,341 km) — or Ethiopian Airlines via ADD, or Turkish Airlines via IST | 40,000 | — | ₹40,000 | 1.3× |
| Avianca LifeMiles | Star Alliance partner metal, North Africa→India — Avianca LifeMiles | ~45,000 est. | — | ₹45,000 | 1.5× |
| Air China PhoenixMiles | Star Alliance metal (LH/SQ/TG partner metal — CA itself flies only Delhi from India), North Africa→India — Air China PhoenixMiles | ~50,000 est. | — | ₹45,000 | 1.5× |
| Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards | Oman Air via MCT (oneworld partner award) — Alaska Atmos | ~50,000 est. | — | ₹50,000 | 1.7× |
| Air France-KLM Flying Blue | SkyTeam metal, Flying Blue (dynamic) — Saudia via JED | ~55,000 est. | — | ₹55,000 | 1.8× |
| Aegean Miles+Bonus | Star Alliance partner metal, North Africa→India — Aegean Miles+Bonus | 55,000 | — | ₹55,000 | 1.8× |
| EVA Air Infinity MileageLands | Star Alliance metal (Air India/LH/SQ/TG — EVA itself serves no Indian city; the award rides partner metal), North Africa→India — EVA Infinity MileageLands | 67,000 | — | ₹67,000 | 2.2× |
| United MileagePlus | Star Alliance partner metal, North Africa→India — United MileagePlus | ~75,000 est. | — | ₹75,000 | 2.5× |
| TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go | Star Alliance partner metal, North Africa→India — TAP Miles&Go | ~125,000 est. | — | ₹1,00,000 | 3.3× |
The play · first
Which card mints this?
+7 more ways in — the full funnel, ratios and ₹/mile side by side →
One of your cards is in those 7 — see it in the funnel →
| Program | Metal / routing | Points | Surcharge | All-in ₹ | vs play |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines AAdvantage the play | oneworld partner metal, AAdvantage region award — or Qatar via DOH, or Royal Jordanian via AMM, or Qatar Airways via DOH, or Oman Air via MCT | 40,000 | — | ₹40,000 | the play |
| Air Canada Aeroplan | Star Alliance partner metal, Aeroplan distance-band award (4,341 km) — or Ethiopian Airlines via ADD, or Turkish Airlines via IST | 75,000 | — | ₹75,000 | 1.9× |
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 France-KLM Flying Blue states that a carrier-imposed surcharge is charged on an award. American Airlines AAdvantage, Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards and United MileagePlus make 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. 7 other programmes priced here publish nothing the desk could read.
Qatar AirwaysRoyal JordanianOman Air oneworld
AAdvantage prices partner awards on a fixed region-to-region chart. A valid oneworld routing is assumed.
Feed it: 52,500 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 105,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 35,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (2:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
Star Alliance
Copa ConnectMiles prices Star partner metal off its FIXED region chart, and its regions PDF files Egypt under "Middle East", not North Africa — so Cairo from India prices at the Central Asia↔Middle East cell: 20k economy / 35k business one-way. 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. Copa's partner chart is a strictly upper-triangular region matrix — one cell per unordered region pair, no direction axis at all — so 20,000 is the same published cell as bom-cai, re-read off the official Copa PDF on 2026-08-06 rather than inferred.
Feed it: 60,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 120,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 40,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (2:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
EgyptAir Star Alliance
EgyptAir own-metal Cairo→Mumbai. A valid EgyptAir routing is assumed.
Saudia SkyTeam
Flying Blue prices dynamically — no fixed chart. Air France/KLM pass carrier (YQ) surcharges on own metal — typically €90–110 economy / €200–300 business one-way long-haul; intra-region SkyTeam ~€15–40. Typical one-way economy runs 18k–40k; award space and travel date drive the real number.
Estimate Dynamic program — estimate is a distance-band estimate (this region-pair is not separately anchored) (range 18k–40k); not a fixed chart price, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Feed it: 25,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 12,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 25,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)
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. Mirrored from bom-cai: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 25,000 is the bom-cai number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of bom-cai — the chart prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this mirrors the bom-cai economy cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. 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: 75,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 150,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 50,000 HDFC Reward Points (2:1)
Oman AirQatar AirwaysRoyal Jordanian oneworld
Alaska Atmos bands the TOTAL DISTANCE FLOWN, not the nonstop great circle: the cheapest Atmos routing is Oman Air via MCT, ~2,701 flown miles against a 2,698-mile nonstop, which reads the Asia-Pacific chart's 1,501-3,000 mi band — 25,000 economy / 50,000 business one-way, plus the $20 partner booking fee per person each way (up from $12.50 on 1-Jul-2026). One-way. Mirrored from bom-cai: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 25,000 is the bom-cai number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of bom-cai — the chart prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this mirrors the bom-cai economy cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.
Feed it: 60,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.4:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 120,000 RBL Reward Points (4.8:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 40,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
LufthansaSingapore 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). Mirrored from bom-cai: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 28,000 is the bom-cai number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of bom-cai — the chart prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this mirrors the bom-cai economy cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. 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: 69,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.46:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 138,000 RBL Reward Points (4.93:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 35,000 HSBC Reward Points (1.25:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL))
Ethiopian AirlinesTurkish Airlines Star Alliance
Aeroplan prices Star partner awards by total distance FLOWN. This row is the direct great-circle band; a connecting routing that flies farther can land in the next band up. A valid Star routing (nonstop or via a Star hub within the maximum permitted mileage) is assumed.
Feed it: 15,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 30,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 75,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
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. That chart is a single upper-triangular ZONE-PAIR matrix — 45 published cells for 9 zones, exactly one per unordered pair — so CAI → BOM and BOM → CAI resolve to the same cell. Re-read against the chart and promoted from mirror-estimate to chart read on 2026-08-06. 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: 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
United went fully dynamic in 2020 (no fixed chart), so ~40,000 is a typical Saver partner level to North Africa. But Aeroplan often prices the same Star seat lower, so compare before burning United miles. Mirrored from bom-cai: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 40,000 is the bom-cai number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of bom-cai — the chart prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this mirrors the bom-cai economy cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. United MileagePlus Saver partner level, India→North Africa 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: 20,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 100,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2) · 90,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.25:1 via Marriott Bonvoy)
Air IndiaLufthansaSingapore 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). EVA's own Star Alliance requirement table is a triangular ORIGIN/DESTINATION REGIONAL ZONES matrix carrying one cell per region pair, so no second number exists for this heading.
Feed it: 51,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 340,000 Amex Membership Rewards (6.67:1 via Hilton Honors) · 1,275,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (25:1 via Hilton Honors)
Star Alliance
TAP's 4 May 2026 devaluation lifted India→Cairo from 70k/115k to 80k/125k one-way: Egypt sits in TAP's "Europe and North Africa" zone, so it prices exactly like Frankfurt or London. EgyptAir's own metal carries far lighter fuel surcharges than the Lufthansa group. Keep the itinerary inside two TAP zones — anything touching a third is billed segment by segment and summed. Mirrored from bom-cai: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 80,000 is the bom-cai number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of bom-cai — the chart prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this mirrors the bom-cai economy cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.
Feed it: 195,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.44:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 390,000 RBL Reward Points (4.88:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 130,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.63:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
Qatar AirwaysRoyal JordanianOman Air oneworld
AAdvantage prices partner awards on a fixed region-to-region chart. A valid oneworld routing is assumed.
Feed it: 90,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 180,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 60,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (2:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
EgyptAir Star Alliance
EgyptAir own-metal Cairo→Mumbai. A valid EgyptAir routing is assumed.
Star Alliance
Copa ConnectMiles prices Star partner metal off its FIXED region chart, and its regions PDF files Egypt under "Middle East", not North Africa — so Cairo from India prices at the Central Asia↔Middle East cell: 20k economy / 35k business one-way. 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. Copa's partner chart is a strictly upper-triangular region matrix — one cell per unordered region pair, no direction axis at all — so 35,000 is the same published cell as bom-cai, re-read off the official Copa PDF on 2026-08-06 rather than inferred.
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)
Ethiopian AirlinesTurkish Airlines Star Alliance
Aeroplan prices Star partner awards by total distance FLOWN. This row is the direct great-circle band; a connecting routing that flies farther can land in the next band up. A valid Star routing (nonstop or via a Star hub within the maximum permitted mileage) is assumed.
Feed it: 20,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 40,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 100,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
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. Mirrored from bom-cai: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 45,000 is the bom-cai number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of bom-cai — the chart prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this mirrors the bom-cai business cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. 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: 135,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 270,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 90,000 HDFC Reward Points (2:1)
LufthansaSingapore 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). Mirrored from bom-cai: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 50,000 is the bom-cai number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of bom-cai — the chart prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this mirrors the bom-cai business cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. 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: 120,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.4:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 240,000 RBL Reward Points (4.8:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 62,500 HSBC Reward Points (1.25:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL))
Oman AirQatar AirwaysRoyal Jordanian oneworld
Alaska Atmos bands the TOTAL DISTANCE FLOWN, not the nonstop great circle: the cheapest Atmos routing is Oman Air via MCT, ~2,701 flown miles against a 2,698-mile nonstop, which reads the Asia-Pacific chart's 1,501-3,000 mi band — 25,000 economy / 50,000 business one-way, plus the $20 partner booking fee per person each way (up from $12.50 on 1-Jul-2026). One-way. Mirrored from bom-cai: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 50,000 is the bom-cai number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of bom-cai — the chart prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this mirrors the bom-cai business cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.
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)
Saudia SkyTeam
Flying Blue prices dynamically — no fixed chart. Air France/KLM pass carrier (YQ) surcharges on own metal — typically €90–110 economy / €200–300 business one-way long-haul; intra-region SkyTeam ~€15–40. Typical one-way business runs 45k–75k; award space and travel date drive the real number.
Estimate Dynamic program — estimate is a distance-band estimate (this region-pair is not separately anchored) (range 45k–75k); not a fixed chart price, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Feed it: 55,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 27,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 55,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)
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. That chart is a single upper-triangular ZONE-PAIR matrix — 45 published cells for 9 zones, exactly one per unordered pair — so CAI → BOM and BOM → CAI resolve to the same cell. Re-read against the chart and promoted from mirror-estimate to chart read on 2026-08-06. 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: 135,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.45:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 270,000 RBL Reward Points (4.91:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 90,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.64:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
Air IndiaLufthansaSingapore 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). EVA's own Star Alliance requirement table is a triangular ORIGIN/DESTINATION REGIONAL ZONES matrix carrying one cell per region pair, so no second number exists for this heading.
Feed it: 67,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 446,667 Amex Membership Rewards (6.67:1 via Hilton Honors) · 1,675,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (25:1 via Hilton Honors)
Star Alliance
United went fully dynamic in 2020 (no fixed chart), so ~75,000 is a typical Saver partner level to North Africa. But Aeroplan often prices the same Star seat lower, so compare before burning United miles. Mirrored from bom-cai: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 75,000 is the bom-cai number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of bom-cai — the chart prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this mirrors the bom-cai business cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. United MileagePlus Saver partner level, India→North Africa 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: 37,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 187,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2) · 165,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.2:1 via Marriott Bonvoy)
Star Alliance
TAP's 4 May 2026 devaluation lifted India→Cairo from 70k/115k to 80k/125k one-way: Egypt sits in TAP's "Europe and North Africa" zone, so it prices exactly like Frankfurt or London. EgyptAir's own metal carries far lighter fuel surcharges than the Lufthansa group. Keep the itinerary inside two TAP zones — anything touching a third is billed segment by segment and summed. Mirrored from bom-cai: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 125,000 is the bom-cai number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of bom-cai — the chart prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this mirrors the bom-cai business cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.
Feed it: 300,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.4:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 600,000 RBL Reward Points (4.8:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 200,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
Qatar AirwaysRoyal JordanianOman Air oneworld
AAdvantage prices partner awards on a fixed region-to-region chart. A valid oneworld routing is assumed.
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)
Ethiopian AirlinesTurkish Airlines Star Alliance
Aeroplan prices Star partner awards by total distance FLOWN. This row is the direct great-circle band; a connecting routing that flies farther can land in the next band up. A valid Star routing (nonstop or via a Star hub within the maximum permitted mileage) is assumed.
Feed it: 37,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 75,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 187,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
Flying back? Mumbai to Cairo on points (BOM–CAI). Or take the whole region: every corridor we price into South Asia — 380 of them. Or pick any two hubs — 2,450 corridors priced.