Award route card · one-way
Kolkata's Hajj and Umrah gateway. No oneworld or dynamic carrier gives a plannable seat, but Air India threads it on its own mainline metal via Delhi — CCU–DEL–JED, both legs AI, Delhi squarely on the way west — at the flat 12,000-point Maharaja economy tier, the cheapest published seat to the Red Sea from Bengal. Business is honest absence: Maharaja publishes no Saudi J figure (a separate, cheaper band than the UAE's 50,000), so we don't quote it.
Every business 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air India Maharaja Points | Air India via DEL (CCU–DEL–JED, mainline) — Saudi business tier unpublished | dynamic | — | — | — |
The play · economy
Feed it: 12,000 IndusInd Reward Points (1:1) · 6,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 12,000 ICICI Reward Points (1:1)
| Program | Metal / routing | Points | Surcharge | All-in ₹ | vs play |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air India Maharaja Points | Air India via DEL (CCU–DEL–JED, mainline) — Maharaja Middle East tier | 12,000 | — | ₹9,600 | the play |
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.
The DEL–JED metal carries business, but Maharaja publishes no Saudi J figure — Saudi business is a separate, cheaper band than the UAE's 50,000 (Riyadh prices ~21,000), and no CCU/DEL–JED number is printed, so business here is honest absence, not an invented cell.
Ways in: IndusInd Reward Points 1:1 · Axis EDGE Miles 1:2 · ICICI Reward Points 1:1
Air India mainline flies both CCU–DEL and DEL–JED (confirmed on the Delhi airport table), so CCU–DEL–JED books as one all-mainline Maharaja award at the flat 12,000 Middle East economy tier — Delhi sits on the way west, within permitted mileage. The cheapest published seat to Jeddah from Kolkata.
Feed it: 12,000 IndusInd Reward Points (1:1) · 6,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 12,000 ICICI Reward Points (1:1)