Award route card · one-way
Two carriers on the nonstop — Gulf Air and Air India Express — and neither reaches a plannable chart. AIX books the flat 12,000 economy at the zone rate. Because Doha sits 92 miles from Bahrain, Qatar's Avios via Doha is a barely-a-detour business seat at 38,500, the corridor's only fixed J price. Maharaja business is honest absence.
The play · business
Feed it: 38,500 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 77,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1) · 38,500 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)
| Program | Metal / routing | Points | Surcharge | All-in ₹ | vs play |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avios (BA / Qatar / Finnair) | Qatar Airways via DOH (oneworld) — two segments, band-priced | 38,500 | — | ₹38,500 | the play |
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 Express nonstop (not Star Alliance), Value tier | 12,000 | — | ₹9,600 | the play |
| Avios (BA / Qatar / Finnair) | Qatar Airways via DOH (oneworld) — two segments, band-priced | 19,000 | — | ₹19,000 | 2.0× |
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.
24,500 (COK–DOH, 1,931 mi, Z3) plus 14,000 (DOH–BAH, ~92 mi, Z1) = 38,500 Avios. Doha is just 92 miles short of Bahrain, so this is barely a detour — Qatar's widebody J on the long leg, then a hop. The only fixed business price on a corridor otherwise flown by Gulf Air and an LCC.
Feed it: 38,500 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 77,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1) · 38,500 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)
Bahrain is on the flat 12,000-point Middle-East tier, and Air India Express flies COK–BAH nonstop at the zone rate. All-economy: AIX carries no business, and AI mainline flies no COK–BAH metal, so the J cabin is an honest absence rather than a 50,000 figure we won't invent.
Feed it: 12,000 IndusInd Reward Points (1:1) · 6,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 12,000 ICICI Reward Points (1:1)
12,500 (COK–DOH, Z3) plus 6,500 (DOH–BAH, Z1) = 19,000 Avios via Doha. Maharaja's flat 12,000 books the AIX nonstop for less; the Avios routing earns its keep in business, not economy.
Feed it: 19,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 38,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1) · 19,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)