Economy the play 20,000 pts oneworld partner metal, AAdvantage region award — or Qatar via DOH, or SriLankan Airlines via CMB, or Qatar Airways via DOH, or Oman Air via MCT, or British Airways via LHR
Qatar AirwaysSriLankan AirlinesOman AirBritish Airways oneworld
AAdvantage prices partner awards on a fixed region-to-region chart. A valid oneworld routing is assumed.
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)
Air India via DEL (CDG–DEL–HYD) — Star Alliance partner award, fixed Miles & More chart
Air India Star Alliance
The same fixed partner chart — the one the 3-Jun-2025 dynamic switch left alone — prices Europe↔India economy at 50,000 miles RETURN, the same band as Europe↔North America. The halving is published, not assumed: Miles & More’s General terms and conditions for Award Flights, §1.1 One-way Award Flight, reads “One-way Award Flights allow you to book an Award Flight for a single leg for 50% fewer miles than a standard Award Flight”, and carves out only Lufthansa/SWISS/Austrian metal, where the saving tracks the dynamic online offer. That is 25,000 one-way. Air India carries it via Delhi (CDG–DEL–HYD), all-AI metal at 1.04× the great-circle — inside the on-the-way limit — and the chart’s own footnote says the published amounts “include a continental connecting flight operated by a Miles & More airline partner”, so the DEL–HYD leg is inside the price rather than on top of it. At 25,000 it does NOT win here — American Airlines AAdvantage publishes the same cabin at 20,000. This row is on the board because the board shows every programme’s answer, not because it is the play; what it buys a stranded Miles & More balance is a FIXED, published number on Star metal. The chart is miles-only: the PDF still makes you pay “taxes, fees, airline surcharges payable to the respective airlines”, so the cash bill follows the OPERATING carrier — which is exactly why partner metal escapes the EUR 395–885 one-way that Lufthansa and SWISS own metal carries. On this pair that means Air India’s bill, not Lufthansa’s or SWISS’s.
Feed it: 62,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2) · 25,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:1) · 125,000 HDFC Reward Points (5:1 via Wyndham Rewards)
Star Alliance metal (LH/TG partner metal — CA itself flies only Delhi from India), Europe→India — Air China PhoenixMiles
LufthansaThai 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 Reverse of hyd-cdg — Air China PhoenixMiles prices this O&D direction-agnostically, and the hyd-cdg row it mirrors is itself an 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: 37,500 HSBC Reward Points (1.25:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 75,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.5:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 150,000 RBL Reward Points (5:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
KLM / SkyTeam metal, Flying Blue (dynamic) — or Saudia via JED, or Vietnam Airlines via HAN
KLMSaudiaVietnam Airlines 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 20k–35k; award space and travel date drive the real number.
Estimate Dynamic program — estimate is the typical one-way level for this region-pair (range 20k–35k); not a fixed chart price, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Feed it: 27,500 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 13,750 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 27,500 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)
Air India via DEL (CDG-DEL-HYD, mainline one award — Star Alliance), Value tier
Air India Star Alliance
Flat 35,000-point Europe economy tier via a Delhi connection on Air India — cheaper on points than Aeroplan's 42,500, same metal and routing, light taxes. A genuine economy option.
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. This direction is additionally mirrored from the reverse corridor — Maharaja prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel — and has not been sampled separately.
Feed it: 35,000 IndusInd Reward Points (1:1) · 17,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 35,000 ICICI Reward Points (1:1)
Star Alliance partner metal, Europe→India — 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: 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)
Oman Air via MCT (oneworld partner award), Europe→India — Alaska Atmos
Oman AirQatar AirwaysBritish Airways oneworld
Alaska Atmos bands the TOTAL DISTANCE FLOWN, not the nonstop great circle: the cheapest Atmos routing is Oman Air via MCT, ~4,841 flown miles against a 4,690-mile nonstop, which reads 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, Europe→India — 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. That chart is a single upper-triangular ZONE-PAIR matrix — 45 published cells for 9 zones, exactly one per unordered pair — so CDG → HYD and HYD → CDG 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)
Cathay Pacific via HKG (oneworld), Standard award
Cathay Pacific oneworld
HYD-HKG-CDG on Cathay is ~8,288 flown miles — the 7,501+-mile band, 38,000 economy. A large eastward detour via Hong Kong, but both legs are Cathay metal.
Feed it: 76,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1) · 38,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 198,000 RBL Reward Points (5.21:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
SkyTeam metal (KLM/VN), Europe→India — China Eastern Eastern Miles
KLMVietnam Airlines SkyTeam
China Eastern prices its own metal (India→Shanghai/Kunming nonstop) plus SkyTeam partners. North Asia is its genuine ex-India strength; other regions estimate off the nearest published China-anchored band (Eastern Miles publishes no India-origin matrix). All one-way.
Estimate Reverse of hyd-cdg — China Eastern Miles prices this O&D direction-agnostically, and the hyd-cdg row it mirrors is itself an estimate: Eastern Miles publishes no India-origin award matrix — this level estimates off the nearest published China-anchored band, as the row note states, not a verified chart price.
Feed it: 300,000 Amex Membership Rewards (6.67:1 via Hilton Honors) · 1,125,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (25:1 via Hilton Honors) · 225,000 Axis EDGE Miles (5:1 via Hilton Honors)
SkyTeam partner metal (KLM/VN), Europe→India — Air Europa SUMA
KLMVietnam Airlines SkyTeam
Air Europa SUMA prices SkyTeam partner metal off a five-band ONE-WAY distance chart: 0–600 mi 6k/12k · 601–1,250 12k/24k · 1,251–1,750 15k/30k · 1,751–3,500 32k/64k · over 3,500 48k/95k (economy/business). This corridor reads the over-3,500 mi band. The 2020 chart that made India→Europe a 51k business steal is gone — the short Gulf hops are where SUMA is now cheap. Partner awards are SUMA call-centre only, paid entirely in Miles, and non-refundable.
Estimate Reverse of hyd-cdg — Air Europa SUMA's published chart prices the zone pair (or distance band), not the direction, so the verified hyd-cdg price mirrors onto cdg-hyd. Not separately re-read in this direction.
Feed it: 48,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 96,000 HDFC Reward Points (2:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 240,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL))
Star Alliance partner metal, Europe→India — United MileagePlus
Star Alliance
United went fully dynamic in 2020 (no fixed chart), so ~40,000 is a typical Saver partner level to Europe. But Aeroplan often prices the same Star seat lower, so compare before burning United miles.
Estimate Reverse of hyd-cdg — United MileagePlus prices this O&D direction-agnostically, and the hyd-cdg row it mirrors is itself an estimate: United MileagePlus Saver partner level, India→Europe 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)
Star Alliance partner metal, Europe→India — 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 Reverse of hyd-cdg — Avianca LifeMiles prices this O&D direction-agnostically, and the hyd-cdg row it mirrors is itself an 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: 120,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 240,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 80,000 HDFC Reward Points (2:1)
Star Alliance partner metal, Aeroplan distance-band award (7,548 km) — or Lufthansa via FRA, or Air India via DEL
LufthansaAir India 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: 21,250 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 42,500 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 106,250 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
Star Alliance metal (Air India/LH/TG — EVA itself serves no Indian city; the award rides partner metal), Europe→India — EVA Infinity MileageLands
Air IndiaLufthansaThai 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: 44,500 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 296,667 Amex Membership Rewards (6.67:1 via Hilton Honors) · 1,112,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (25:1 via Hilton Honors)
SkyTeam metal (KLM/Saudia), Europe→India — SAS EuroBonus
KLMSaudia SkyTeam
SAS joined SkyTeam on 1-Sept-2024, so EuroBonus now prices SkyTeam metal. Ex-India sweet spot: intra-"CESA" business to North Asia/Japan at ~30k. Watch the ×2 multiplier on Air Europa/China Airlines/Vietnam Airlines (UX/CI/VN) metal. One-way = 60% of round-trip.
Estimate Reverse of hyd-cdg — SAS EuroBonus's published chart prices the zone pair (or distance band), not the direction, so the verified hyd-cdg price mirrors onto cdg-hyd. Not separately re-read in this direction.
Feed it: 378,000 HDFC Reward Points (7:1 via Radisson Rewards) · 378,000 SBI Travel Credits (7:1 via Radisson Rewards) · 945,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (17.5:1 via Radisson Rewards)
Cathay Pacific via HKG (CDG-HKG-HYD, oneworld partner distance)
Cathay Pacific oneworld
JMB partner distance on the Cathay routing (~8,288 miles, 8,001-10,000 band) — 47,000 economy. One-ways are bookable and price off the same chart at the one-way distance; priced for completeness above Asia Miles' own 38,000.
Estimate Reverse of hyd-cdg — Japan Airlines Mileage Bank's published chart prices the zone pair (or distance band), not the direction, so the verified hyd-cdg price mirrors onto cdg-hyd. Not separately re-read in this direction.
Feed it: 23,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 47,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 117,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
SkyTeam partner metal (KLM/VN), Europe→India — Delta SkyMiles (dynamic)
KLMVietnam Airlines SkyTeam
Delta has had no award chart since 2015 — fully dynamic, so ~55,000 is a representative saver-ish partner level to Europe; peak dates and 2026 partner hikes can swing business 1.5–3×. Kenya Airways (NBO) and Korean (ICN) are the strongest ex-India SkyTeam value.
Estimate Reverse of hyd-cdg — Delta SkyMiles prices this O&D direction-agnostically, and the hyd-cdg row it mirrors is itself an estimate: Delta SkyMiles is fully dynamic (no chart since 2015); ~55,000/140,000 is a representative SkyTeam partner saver level India→Europe on AF/KLM/KE/VN/MU metal — peak dates and the 2026 partner hikes swing business 1.5–3×.
Feed it: 165,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 330,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 110,000 HSBC Reward Points (2:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL))
KLM via AMS (CDG–AMS–HYD) — Vietnam LotusMiles
KLM SkyTeam
LotusMiles deducts miles PER FLIGHT SEGMENT on its SkyTeam partner table (official chart, effective 1-Aug-2025), and no SkyTeam carrier flies HYD–CDG nonstop — so the price is a SUM, not one cell. Cheapest verified SkyTeam build is KLM HYD–AMS–CDG — per-segment: HYD–AMS 35,000 (SW Asia × Europe) + AMS–CDG 25,000 (Europe × Europe) = 60,000. India is SW Asia on that table; LotusMiles' own SGN/HAN metal runs off a separate chart (25k/60k one-way). One-way.
Feed it: 60,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 60,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 60,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1)
Star Alliance partner metal, Europe→India — TAP Miles&Go
Star Alliance
A real chart read, not a mirror: TAP's Star Alliance table (effective 4 May 2026) prices Europe and North Africa → Asia at 80,000 economy / 125,000 business — the SAME cell as Asia → Europe and North Africa. TAP's chart carries exactly one published directional asymmetry (Europe ↔ Middle East) and this pair is not it, so the Europe-origin direction costs what the India-origin direction costs. Airport taxes on top; TAP passes Lufthansa-group carrier surcharges, and publishes no per-route figure.
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)
Business the play 42,500 pts oneworld partner metal, AAdvantage region award — or Qatar via DOH, or SriLankan Airlines via CMB, or Qatar Airways via DOH, or Oman Air via MCT, or British Airways via LHR
Qatar AirwaysSriLankan AirlinesOman AirBritish Airways oneworld
AAdvantage prices partner awards on a fixed region-to-region chart. A valid oneworld routing is assumed.
Feed it: 127,500 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 255,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 85,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (2:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
Star Alliance partner metal, Europe→India — 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: 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)
Business ~55,000 pts est. Star Alliance metal (LH/TG partner metal — CA itself flies only Delhi from India), Europe→India — Air China PhoenixMiles
LufthansaThai 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 Reverse of hyd-cdg — Air China PhoenixMiles prices this O&D direction-agnostically, and the hyd-cdg row it mirrors is itself an 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: 135,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.45:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 270,000 RBL Reward Points (4.91:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 68,750 HSBC Reward Points (1.25:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL))
Star Alliance partner metal, Europe→India — 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. That chart is a single upper-triangular ZONE-PAIR matrix — 45 published cells for 9 zones, exactly one per unordered pair — so CDG → HYD and HYD → CDG 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)
Oman Air via MCT (oneworld partner award), Europe→India — Alaska Atmos
Oman AirQatar AirwaysBritish Airways oneworld
Alaska Atmos bands the TOTAL DISTANCE FLOWN, not the nonstop great circle: the cheapest Atmos routing is Oman Air via MCT, ~4,841 flown miles against a 4,690-mile nonstop, which reads 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)
Air India via DEL (CDG–DEL–HYD) — Star Alliance partner award, fixed Miles & More chart
Air India Star Alliance
Miles & More’s PARTNER chart is the one thing the 3-Jun-2025 switch to dynamic pricing did not touch, and the official Award Flight chart (correct as of 3 March 2026) gives INDIA its own region, separate from South East Asia and from Central Asia/Far East. Europe↔India in business is 125,000 miles RETURN — the same band as Europe↔North America, not the dearer South East Asia column. The halving is published, not assumed: Miles & More’s General terms and conditions for Award Flights, §1.1 One-way Award Flight, reads “One-way Award Flights allow you to book an Award Flight for a single leg for 50% fewer miles than a standard Award Flight”, and carves out only Lufthansa/SWISS/Austrian metal, where the saving tracks the dynamic online offer. That puts this corridor at 62,500 one-way, fixed and published, on PARTNER metal — and the T&Cs say so twice over: §2.1 adds that for “all other Miles & More airline partners” the ask “is calculated on the basis of an outbound and return flight in the selected award zone”. Air India carries it via Delhi (CDG–DEL–HYD), all-AI metal at 1.04× the great-circle — inside the on-the-way limit — and the chart’s own footnote says the published amounts “include a continental connecting flight operated by a Miles & More airline partner”, so the DEL–HYD leg is inside the price rather than on top of it. At 62,500 it does NOT win here — American Airlines AAdvantage publishes the same cabin at 42,500. This row is on the board because the board shows every programme’s answer, not because it is the play; what it buys a stranded Miles & More balance is a FIXED, published number on Star metal. Turkish is the obvious alternate on this chart, but it does not serve HYD at all, so Air India via Delhi is the only partner routing inside the on-the-way limit. Two cells on the same chart row are deliberately NOT on the board. Premium Economy (85,000 return) is carved out by the chart’s own footnote 4 — “Only on flights operated by Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Discover Airlines, Eurowings, Lufthansa, Lufthansa City and SWISS” — i.e. never on Air India. And First (215,000 return, 1,07,500 one-way) has no metal: Air India’s only First cabin is the legacy 777-300ER, which in 2026 works Delhi–Melbourne and the Amritsar/Ahmedabad–London Gatwick runs, and no Delhi–Europe sector at all. The chart is miles-only: the PDF still makes you pay “taxes, fees, airline surcharges payable to the respective airlines”, so the cash bill follows the OPERATING carrier — which is exactly why partner metal escapes the EUR 395–885 one-way that Lufthansa and SWISS own metal carries. On this pair that means Air India’s bill, not Lufthansa’s or SWISS’s. Air India releases partner Saver space thinly on the Europe runs — award space, not the price, is the constraint here.
Feed it: 156,250 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2) · 62,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:1) · 312,500 HDFC Reward Points (5:1 via Wyndham Rewards)
Business ~63,000 pts est. Star Alliance partner metal, Europe→India — 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 Reverse of hyd-cdg — Avianca LifeMiles prices this O&D direction-agnostically, and the hyd-cdg row it mirrors is itself an 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: 189,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 378,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 126,000 HDFC Reward Points (2:1)
Business ~80,000 pts est. SkyTeam metal (KLM/VN), Europe→India — China Eastern Eastern Miles
KLMVietnam Airlines SkyTeam
China Eastern prices its own metal (India→Shanghai/Kunming nonstop) plus SkyTeam partners. North Asia is its genuine ex-India strength; other regions estimate off the nearest published China-anchored band (Eastern Miles publishes no India-origin matrix). All one-way.
Estimate Reverse of hyd-cdg — China Eastern Miles prices this O&D direction-agnostically, and the hyd-cdg row it mirrors is itself an estimate: Eastern Miles publishes no India-origin award matrix — this level estimates off the nearest published China-anchored band, as the row note states, not a verified chart price.
Feed it: 533,334 Amex Membership Rewards (6.67:1 via Hilton Honors) · 2,000,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (25:1 via Hilton Honors) · 400,000 Axis EDGE Miles (5:1 via Hilton Honors)
Star Alliance partner metal, Aeroplan distance-band award (7,548 km) — or Lufthansa via FRA, or Air India via DEL
LufthansaAir India 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: 35,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 70,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 175,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
Star Alliance metal (Air India/LH/TG — EVA itself serves no Indian city; the award rides partner metal), Europe→India — EVA Infinity MileageLands
Air IndiaLufthansaThai 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: 71,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 473,334 Amex Membership Rewards (6.67:1 via Hilton Honors) · 1,775,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (25:1 via Hilton Honors)
Business ~75,000 pts est. Etihad via Abu Dhabi (CDG-AUH-HYD) — Saver Award seats, dynamic
Etihad Airways
Saver Award seats price dynamically off demand with no published Paris datapoint, plus carrier surcharges. Via Abu Dhabi, no number to quote.
Estimate Reverse of hyd-cdg — Etihad Guest prices this O&D direction-agnostically, and the hyd-cdg row it mirrors is itself an estimate: Etihad Guest Saver Award starting level for the ~4,875-mile flown itinerary (via AUH), read off Etihad's last published one-way distance-band structure (5,000-mile band). Etihad publishes no award chart today - GuestSeat became Saver Award on 13-Nov-2025 and pricing lives in the Miles Calculator - so fixed-rate space is limited and real quotes often run well above this floor.
Feed it: 37,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 75,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 187,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
Business ~95,000 pts est. SkyTeam partner metal (KLM/VN), Europe→India — Air Europa SUMA
KLMVietnam Airlines SkyTeam
Air Europa SUMA prices SkyTeam partner metal off a five-band ONE-WAY distance chart: 0–600 mi 6k/12k · 601–1,250 12k/24k · 1,251–1,750 15k/30k · 1,751–3,500 32k/64k · over 3,500 48k/95k (economy/business). This corridor reads the over-3,500 mi band. The 2020 chart that made India→Europe a 51k business steal is gone — the short Gulf hops are where SUMA is now cheap. Partner awards are SUMA call-centre only, paid entirely in Miles, and non-refundable.
Estimate Reverse of hyd-cdg — Air Europa SUMA's published chart prices the zone pair (or distance band), not the direction, so the verified hyd-cdg price mirrors onto cdg-hyd. Not separately re-read in this direction.
Feed it: 95,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 190,000 HDFC Reward Points (2:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 475,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL))
Business ~80,000 pts est. Star Alliance partner metal, Europe→India — United MileagePlus
Star Alliance
United went fully dynamic in 2020 (no fixed chart), so ~80,000 is a typical Saver partner level to Europe. But Aeroplan often prices the same Star seat lower, so compare before burning United miles.
Estimate Reverse of hyd-cdg — United MileagePlus prices this O&D direction-agnostically, and the hyd-cdg row it mirrors is itself an estimate: United MileagePlus Saver partner level, India→Europe 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: 40,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 200,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2) · 180,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.25:1 via Marriott Bonvoy)
Business ~100,000 pts est. Air India via DEL (CDG-DEL-HYD, mainline one award — Star Alliance), Value tier
Air India Star Alliance
100,000 Europe business via Delhi — but Aeroplan books the same Air India seat for 70,000. Maharaja's own metal, overpriced in its own currency.
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. This direction is additionally mirrored from the reverse corridor — Maharaja prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel — and has not been sampled separately.
Feed it: 100,000 IndusInd Reward Points (1:1) · 50,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 100,000 ICICI Reward Points (1:1)
Business ~85,000 pts est. KLM / SkyTeam metal, Flying Blue (dynamic) — or Saudia via JED, or Vietnam Airlines via HAN
KLMSaudiaVietnam Airlines 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 63.75k–90k; award space and travel date drive the real number.
Estimate Dynamic program — estimate is the typical one-way level for this region-pair (range 63.75k–90k); not a fixed chart price, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Feed it: 85,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 42,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 85,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)
Business ~86,500 pts est. Qatar Qsuite via DOH (oneworld), route-based Avios — over the ceiling
Qatar Airways oneworld
Qatar Qsuite via Doha, priced per-segment on BA's partner bands: the India–DOH leg is a verified band, but the DOH–Paris leg falls in the post-15-Dec-2025 Z5 band whose exact value is disputed, so this is an ESTIMATE (see the assumption). AA (42,500) is cheaper on the identical Qsuite — the real play.
Estimate Reverse of hyd-cdg — Avios (BA / Qatar / Finnair) prices this O&D direction-agnostically, and the hyd-cdg row it mirrors is itself an estimate: Per-segment via DOH on Qatar Qsuite: India-DOH Z3 24,500 (verified band) + DOH-Europe Z5 ~62,000 - assumes the standard-partner Z5 (3,001-4,000 mi) sits at ~pre-deval level; unconfirmed post-15-Dec-2025 (sources dispute, ~60k-68.5k).
Feed it: 86,500 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 173,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1) · 86,500 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)
Business ~85,000 pts est. Cathay Pacific via HKG (CDG-HKG-HYD, oneworld partner distance)
Cathay Pacific oneworld
85,000 business on the JMB partner chart via Hong Kong — above Aeroplan's 70,000, and JMB is hard to fund from India. Completeness row.
Estimate Reverse of hyd-cdg — Japan Airlines Mileage Bank's published chart prices the zone pair (or distance band), not the direction, so the verified hyd-cdg price mirrors onto cdg-hyd. Not separately re-read in this direction.
Feed it: 42,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 85,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 212,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
Business ~108,000 pts est. SkyTeam metal (KLM/Saudia), Europe→India — SAS EuroBonus
KLMSaudia SkyTeam
SAS joined SkyTeam on 1-Sept-2024, so EuroBonus now prices SkyTeam metal. Ex-India sweet spot: intra-"CESA" business to North Asia/Japan at ~30k. Watch the ×2 multiplier on Air Europa/China Airlines/Vietnam Airlines (UX/CI/VN) metal. One-way = 60% of round-trip.
Estimate Reverse of hyd-cdg — SAS EuroBonus's published chart prices the zone pair (or distance band), not the direction, so the verified hyd-cdg price mirrors onto cdg-hyd. Not separately re-read in this direction.
Feed it: 756,000 HDFC Reward Points (7:1 via Radisson Rewards) · 756,000 SBI Travel Credits (7:1 via Radisson Rewards) · 1,890,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (17.5:1 via Radisson Rewards)
Business ~109,000 pts est. Emirates via Dubai (CDG-DXB-HYD) — Classic Rewards, calculator-priced
Emirates
The Miles Calculator prices HYD-DXB-CDG per date; premium cabins rose ~15% in the 20-May-2026 devaluation, plus heavy surcharges. No chart, no fixed number.
Estimate Reverse of hyd-cdg — Emirates Skywards prices this O&D direction-agnostically, and the hyd-cdg row it mirrors is itself an estimate: Emirates Skywards one-way Saver estimate, re-marked 01-Aug-2026 to the official miles-calculator pull of 25-Jul-2026 (post the 20-May-2026 devaluation, premium cabins +~15%; connecting corridors summed per leg); dynamic - no published chart, Saver space thin, Flex/Flex Plus price well above.
Feed it: 218,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1) · 534,000 RBL Reward Points (4.9:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 218,000 SBI Travel Credits (2:1)
Star Alliance partner metal, Europe→India — TAP Miles&Go
Star Alliance
A real chart read, not a mirror: TAP's Star Alliance table (effective 4 May 2026) prices Europe and North Africa → Asia at 80,000 economy / 125,000 business — the SAME cell as Asia → Europe and North Africa. TAP's chart carries exactly one published directional asymmetry (Europe ↔ Middle East) and this pair is not it, so the Europe-origin direction costs what the India-origin direction costs. Airport taxes on top; TAP passes Lufthansa-group carrier surcharges, and publishes no per-route figure.
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)
Cathay Pacific via HKG (oneworld), Standard award
Cathay Pacific oneworld
119,000 business via Hong Kong — Cathay's excellent product, but a huge detour and well above Aeroplan's 70,000 direct-ish via Delhi.
Feed it: 238,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1) · 119,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 594,000 RBL Reward Points (4.99:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
Business ~108,500 pts est. Singapore Airlines via Singapore — Zone 6 to 11 calculator-only
Singapore Airlines Star Alliance
Zone 6 to Zone 11 (Europe) Saver is calculator/waitlist-only from India, and via Singapore it's a long detour anyway — no clean fixed Saver to publish. Unpriced.
Estimate Reverse of hyd-cdg — Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer prices this O&D direction-agnostically, and the hyd-cdg row it mirrors is itself an estimate: SQ Saver Zone 6->11 is a '^' calculator cell (via-SIN backtrack; all Europe = Zone 11); anchored to the published Zone 1(SIN)->Europe business Saver 108,500 (the figure community sites misattribute to India-origin).
Feed it: 108,500 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 54,250 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 217,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1)
KLM via AMS (CDG–AMS–HYD) — Vietnam LotusMiles
KLM SkyTeam
LotusMiles deducts miles PER FLIGHT SEGMENT on its SkyTeam partner table (official chart, effective 1-Aug-2025), and no SkyTeam carrier flies HYD–CDG nonstop — so the price is a SUM, not one cell. Cheapest verified SkyTeam build is KLM HYD–AMS–CDG — per-segment: HYD–AMS 70,000 (SW Asia × Europe) + AMS–CDG 50,000 (Europe × Europe) = 120,000. India is SW Asia on that table; LotusMiles' own SGN/HAN metal runs off a separate chart (25k/60k one-way). One-way.
Feed it: 120,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 120,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 120,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1)
Business ~140,000 pts est. SkyTeam partner metal (KLM/VN), Europe→India — Delta SkyMiles (dynamic)
KLMVietnam Airlines SkyTeam
Delta has had no award chart since 2015 — fully dynamic, so ~55,000 is a representative saver-ish partner level to Europe; peak dates and 2026 partner hikes can swing business 1.5–3×. Kenya Airways (NBO) and Korean (ICN) are the strongest ex-India SkyTeam value.
Estimate Reverse of hyd-cdg — Delta SkyMiles prices this O&D direction-agnostically, and the hyd-cdg row it mirrors is itself an estimate: Delta SkyMiles is fully dynamic (no chart since 2015); ~55,000/140,000 is a representative SkyTeam partner saver level India→Europe on AF/KLM/KE/VN/MU metal — peak dates and the 2026 partner hikes swing business 1.5–3×.
Feed it: 420,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 840,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 280,000 HSBC Reward Points (2:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL))
First the play 62,500 pts oneworld partner metal, AAdvantage region award — or Qatar via DOH, or SriLankan Airlines via CMB, or Qatar Airways via DOH, or Oman Air via MCT, or British Airways via LHR
Qatar AirwaysSriLankan AirlinesOman AirBritish Airways oneworld
AAdvantage prices partner awards on a fixed region-to-region chart. A valid oneworld routing is assumed.
Feed it: 187,500 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 375,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 125,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (2:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
Star Alliance partner metal, Aeroplan distance-band award (7,548 km) — or Lufthansa via FRA, or Air India via DEL
LufthansaAir India 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: 50,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 100,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 250,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)