Award route card · one-way
A pure Kerala labour corridor, flown only by low-cost carriers — Air Arabia at its home base and Air India Express. That leaves exactly one points play: AIX redeems at Maharaja's flat 12,000-point economy on the nonstop. No widebody, no business cabin, no oneworld metal for Avios. Honest and lean — burn 12,000 or pay the usually-cheap fare.
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 |
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.
Sharjah sits on the flat 12,000-point Middle-East tier, and Air India Express flies COK–SHJ nonstop — AIX metal redeems at the zone rate. The only transferable-points seat on the corridor. All-economy: no business cabin exists on this all-LCC route, so there is no J row to price.
Feed it: 12,000 IndusInd Reward Points (1:1) · 6,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 12,000 ICICI Reward Points (1:1)