Award flight · one-way
The band trap just found an exit. Paris sits at 4,080 great-circle miles — 80 past Aeroplan's 4,000-mile line — so its Air India award costs 70,000 in business, where Frankfurt slips under the line for far less. AAdvantage sidesteps the whole Star band: the cheapest verified business seat on the board is 42,500 via AAdvantage, and economy starts at 20,000 — Qatar's Qsuite via Doha both times, under Aeroplan's 70,000 and less than half Maharaja's 100,000, if you can feed AA via Bonvoy 3:1.
The play · economy
Which card mints this?
+7 more ways in — the full funnel, ratios and ₹/mile side by side →
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| Program | Metal / routing | Points | Surcharge | All-in ₹ | vs play |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines AAdvantage the play | Qatar Airways via DOH (oneworld partner award), or Finnair via HEL, or British Airways via LHR, or Oman Air via MCT | 20,000 | — | ₹20,000 | the play |
| Lufthansa Miles & More | Air India nonstop — Star Alliance partner award, fixed Miles & More chart | 25,000 | — | ₹25,000 | 1.3× |
| Air China PhoenixMiles | Star Alliance metal (LH — CA itself flies only Delhi from India), India→Europe — Air China PhoenixMiles | ~30,000 est. | — | ₹27,000 | 1.4× |
| Air India Maharaja Points | Air India nonstop (Star Alliance), Value tier | ~35,000 est. | — | ₹28,000 | 1.4× |
| Air France-KLM Flying Blue | Air France nonstop — dynamic pricing | ~30,000 est. | — | ₹30,000 | 1.5× |
| Copa Airlines ConnectMiles | Star Alliance partner metal, India→Europe — Copa ConnectMiles (fixed region chart) | 30,000 | — | ₹30,000 | 1.5× |
| Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards | British Airways via LGW (oneworld partner award), India→Europe — Alaska Atmos | 30,000 | — | ₹30,000 | 1.5× |
| Vietnam Airlines Lotusmiles | Air France DEL–CDG nonstop — Vietnam LotusMiles | 35,000 | — | ₹35,000 | 1.8× |
| Aegean Miles+Bonus | Star Alliance partner metal, India→Europe — Aegean Miles+Bonus | 35,000 | — | ₹35,000 | 1.8× |
| Cathay Asia Miles | Cathay Pacific via HKG (oneworld), Standard award | 38,000 | — | ₹38,000 | 1.9× |
| China Eastern Miles | SkyTeam metal (AF/KLM), India→Europe — China Eastern Eastern Miles | ~45,000 est. | — | ₹38,250 | 1.9× |
| Air Europa SUMA | SkyTeam partner metal (AF/KLM), India→Europe — Air Europa SUMA | 48,000 | — | ₹38,400 | 1.9× |
| United MileagePlus | Star Alliance partner metal, India→Europe — United MileagePlus | ~40,000 est. | — | ₹40,000 | 2.0× |
| Avianca LifeMiles | Star Alliance partner metal, India→Europe — Avianca LifeMiles | ~40,000 est. | — | ₹40,000 | 2.0× |
| Air Canada Aeroplan | Star Alliance partner award (Air India nonstop bookable) — or SWISS via ZRH, or LOT Polish Airlines via WAW, or EgyptAir via CAI, or Turkish Airlines via IST | 42,500 | — | ₹42,500 | 2.1× |
| EVA Air Infinity MileageLands | Star Alliance metal (Air India/LH — EVA itself serves no Indian city; the award rides partner metal), India→Europe — EVA Infinity MileageLands | 44,500 | — | ₹44,500 | 2.2× |
| SAS EuroBonus | SkyTeam metal (AF/KLM/Saudia), India→Europe — SAS EuroBonus | 54,000 | — | ₹48,600 | 2.4× |
| Japan Airlines Mileage Bank | Cathay Pacific via HKG (DEL–HKG–CDG, oneworld partner distance) | 47,000 | — | ₹51,700 | 2.6× |
| Delta SkyMiles | SkyTeam partner metal (AF/KLM), India→Europe — Delta SkyMiles (dynamic) | ~55,000 est. | — | ₹55,000 | 2.8× |
| TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go | Star Alliance partner metal, India→Europe — TAP Miles&Go | 80,000 | — | ₹64,000 | 3.2× |
The play · business
Which card mints this?
+7 more ways in — the full funnel, ratios and ₹/mile side by side →
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| Program | Metal / routing | Points | Surcharge | All-in ₹ | vs play |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines AAdvantage the play | Qatar Qsuite via DOH (oneworld partner award), or Finnair via HEL, or British Airways via LHR, or Oman Air via MCT | 42,500 | — | ₹42,500 | the play |
| Copa Airlines ConnectMiles | Star Alliance partner metal, India→Europe — Copa ConnectMiles (fixed region chart) | 45,000 | — | ₹45,000 | 1.1× |
| Air China PhoenixMiles | Star Alliance metal (LH — CA itself flies only Delhi from India), India→Europe — Air China PhoenixMiles | ~55,000 est. | — | ₹49,500 | 1.2× |
| Aegean Miles+Bonus | Star Alliance partner metal, India→Europe — Aegean Miles+Bonus | 55,000 | — | ₹55,000 | 1.3× |
| Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards | British Airways via LGW (oneworld partner award), India→Europe — Alaska Atmos | 60,000 | — | ₹60,000 | 1.4× |
| Lufthansa Miles & More | Air India nonstop — Star Alliance partner award, fixed Miles & More chart | 62,500 | — | ₹62,500 | 1.5× |
| Avianca LifeMiles | Star Alliance partner metal, India→Europe — Avianca LifeMiles | ~63,000 est. | — | ₹63,000 | 1.5× |
| China Eastern Miles | SkyTeam metal (AF/KLM), India→Europe — China Eastern Eastern Miles | ~80,000 est. | — | ₹68,000 | 1.6× |
| Air Canada Aeroplan | Star Alliance partner award (Air India nonstop bookable) — or SWISS via ZRH, or LOT Polish Airlines via WAW, or EgyptAir via CAI, or Turkish Airlines via IST | 70,000 | — | ₹70,000 | 1.6× |
| Vietnam Airlines Lotusmiles | Air France DEL–CDG nonstop — Vietnam LotusMiles | 70,000 | — | ₹70,000 | 1.6× |
| EVA Air Infinity MileageLands | Star Alliance metal (Air India/LH — EVA itself serves no Indian city; the award rides partner metal), India→Europe — EVA Infinity MileageLands | 71,000 | — | ₹71,000 | 1.7× |
| Etihad Guest | Etihad via Abu Dhabi (one stop) — Saver Award seats, dynamic | ~75,000 est. | — | ₹75,000 | 1.8× |
| Air Europa SUMA | SkyTeam partner metal (AF/KLM), India→Europe — Air Europa SUMA | 95,000 | — | ₹76,000 | 1.8× |
| United MileagePlus | Star Alliance partner metal, India→Europe — United MileagePlus | ~80,000 est. | — | ₹80,000 | 1.9× |
| Air India Maharaja Points | Air India nonstop (Star Alliance), Value tier | ~100,000 est. | — | ₹80,000 | 1.9× |
| Air France-KLM Flying Blue | Air France nonstop — dynamic pricing, recurring India promos | ~85,000 est. | — | ₹85,000 | 2.0× |
| Emirates Skywards | Emirates via Dubai (one stop) — Classic Rewards, calculator-priced | ~95,000 est. | — | ₹85,500 | 2.0× |
| Avios (BA / Qatar / Finnair) | Qatar Qsuite via DOH (oneworld), route-based Avios | ~86,500 est. | — | ₹86,500 | 2.0× |
| Japan Airlines Mileage Bank | Cathay Pacific via HKG (DEL–HKG–CDG, oneworld partner distance) | 85,000 | — | ₹93,500 | 2.2× |
| SAS EuroBonus | SkyTeam metal (AF/KLM/Saudia), India→Europe — SAS EuroBonus | 108,000 | — | ₹97,200 | 2.3× |
| TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go | Star Alliance partner metal, India→Europe — TAP Miles&Go | 125,000 | — | ₹1,00,000 | 2.4× |
| Cathay Asia Miles | Cathay Pacific via HKG (oneworld), Standard award | 119,000 | — | ₹1,19,000 | 2.8× |
| Delta SkyMiles | SkyTeam partner metal (AF/KLM), India→Europe — Delta SkyMiles (dynamic) | ~140,000 est. | — | ₹1,40,000 | 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 Finnair via HEL, or Qatar Airways via DOH, or Oman Air via MCT, or British Airways via LHR | 62,500 | — | ₹62,500 | the play |
| Air Canada Aeroplan | Star Alliance partner metal, Aeroplan distance-band award (6,566 km) — or Lufthansa via FRA, or SWISS via ZRH, or EgyptAir via CAI, or Turkish Airlines via IST, or LOT Polish Airlines via WAW | 100,000 | — | ₹1,00,000 | 1.6× |
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. Lufthansa Miles & More, Air France-KLM Flying Blue, Cathay Asia Miles, Etihad Guest, Emirates Skywards and Avios (BA / Qatar / Finnair) state that a carrier-imposed surcharge is charged on an award. American Airlines AAdvantage, Air India Maharaja Points, Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards, Vietnam Airlines Lotusmiles, China Eastern Miles 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. 10 other programmes priced here publish nothing the desk could read.
Open this corridor in British Airways’ Flight Finder → It fills in your search — DEL to CDG on 29/12/2026, which you change there. It does not show award space, and no link on this page can. It is the only carrier handoff the desk ships: Qatar returns CASH fares under award-looking parameters, Aeroplan discards them behind a login, KrisFlyer’s search has no URL to link to, and the Flying Blue template in circulation has never been verified.
Qatar AirwaysFinnairBritish AirwaysOman Air oneworld
Avios prices Paris only through the disputed post-Dec-2025 Z5 band (see its ~est.), so AA is the cleaner oneworld pricer here: 20,000 miles via Qatar/Doha, 60,000 Bonvoy at 3:1 (see /transfers/to/american-aadvantage).
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 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 flies it nonstop, which keeps the whole intercontinental leg out of the dynamic engine and on the fixed partner chart. 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)
Lufthansa 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 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)
Air India Star Alliance
Paris is named on the April-2026 chart's flat 35,000-point Europe economy tier. ₹28,000 of points for an economy seat — fine for stranded balances, poor arithmetic for fresh transfers.
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.
Feed it: 35,000 IndusInd Reward Points (1:1) · 17,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 35,000 ICICI Reward Points (1:1)
Air France SkyTeam
Air France's own nonstop, dynamically priced — no India award chart. Economy from Delhi floats in a wide band and the monthly Promo Rewards (25% off, Paris is a recurring name) are the only time it beats cash. Five Indian issuers feed Flying Blue; treat economy as a promo-window purchase, never a standing plan.
Estimate Flying Blue is dynamic (no chart); typical off-peak Saver ex-India via CDG/AMS for ~4,080 mi. India-Europe anchors the pre-promo baseline (economy 30k, biz 85k; a 25%-off Promo Rewards batch, on the rare months India makes one, cuts them to 22.5k / 63.75k); peak dates price above, heavy AF/KLM YQ on top. Reconciled 06-Aug-2026 against the reverse twin cdg-del, which read 27,500 and now mirrors this cell - this side wins on evidence, being dated 01-Aug-2026 off an India-specific LiveFromALounge Promo Rewards read, where 27,500 was only the mid-point of a generic 20k-35k band taken off flyingblue.com on 24-Jul-2026.
Feed it: 30,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 15,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 30,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)
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)
British AirwaysFinnairQatar AirwaysOman Air oneworld
Alaska Atmos bands the TOTAL DISTANCE FLOWN, not the nonstop great circle: the cheapest Atmos routing is British Airways via LGW, ~4,366 flown miles against a 4,080-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)
Air France SkyTeam
Per-segment chart; nonstop = one segment. Air France flies DEL–CDG nonstop, so LotusMiles bills exactly ONE cell — SW Asia × Europe = 35,000, verified cell-for-cell against the official SkyTeam partner table effective 1-Aug-2025. Every CONNECTING build on this program sums each segment instead, which is why most of the India board prices dearer than this. LotusMiles' own SGN/HAN metal runs off a separate chart (25k/60k one-way). One-way.
Feed it: 35,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 35,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 35,000 SBI Travel Credits (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. 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 oneworld
DEL–HKG–CDG is ~8,320 combined miles — over Cathay's 7,500-mile line, so it sits in the 7,501+ Standard band: 38,000 one-way on CX metal via Hong Kong, the same open-ended top band that prices del-akl and del-jfk. Cathay serves HKG–CDG nonstop; surcharge-clean, Standard space permitting. (Parallels del-fra, blr-cdg, bom-cdg — same routing/band; a genuine India–Europe Asia-Miles hole.)
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)
Air FranceKLM 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 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)
Air FranceKLM 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.
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
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 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
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 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)
Air IndiaSWISSLOT Polish AirlinesEgyptAirTurkish Airlines Star Alliance
Same 4,001–6,000-mile within-Atlantic band as London: 42,500 after the June-2026 hike. A ₹42,500 economy seat at house value — cash fares to Paris routinely undercut it.
Feed it: 21,250 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 42,500 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 106,250 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
Air IndiaLufthansa 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)
Air FranceKLMSaudia 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.
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 oneworld
DEL–HKG–CDG on Cathay (~8,320 mi) sits in JMB's 8,001–10,000-mile partner band at 47,000 economy one-way — the same band and price as del-akl. One-ways are bookable and price off the same chart at the one-way distance — JAL bands the whole itinerary, so a return re-bands on the ~16,600 combined miles at 70,000, far under 2×47,000. Direct-fed via HSBC 1:1 / Axis 1:2 / SBI 2:1.
Feed it: 23,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 47,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 117,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
Air FranceKLM 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 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))
Star Alliance
TAP's 4 May 2026 devaluation lifted India→Europe (its "Europe and North Africa" zone) from 70k/115k to 80k/125k one-way. TAP's own metal and the Lufthansa group carry the heaviest fuel surcharges of any Star program into Europe; Turkish, EgyptAir and Ethiopian routings dodge most of the YQ. Keep the itinerary inside two TAP zones — anything touching a third is billed segment by segment and summed.
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 AirwaysFinnairBritish AirwaysOman Air oneworld
42,500 AA miles for Qatar's Qsuite via Doha to Paris — cheaper than Air India's Europe business (100,000) and the only oneworld business chart that prints on this corridor once Avios drops out at the 3,000-mi ceiling. Marriott Bonvoy 3:1 = 127,500 points, no direct feed (see /transfers/to/american-aadvantage).
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
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)
Lufthansa 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 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
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. 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)
British AirwaysFinnairQatar AirwaysOman Air oneworld
Alaska Atmos bands the TOTAL DISTANCE FLOWN, not the nonstop great circle: the cheapest Atmos routing is British Airways via LGW, ~4,366 flown miles against a 4,080-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 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 flies it nonstop, which keeps the whole intercontinental leg out of the dynamic engine and on the fixed partner chart. 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. Alternate partner metal on the same fixed price: Turkish Airlines via Istanbul (1.03×) or LOT Polish via Warsaw (1.01×) — both are Star partners outside the Lufthansa group, so both price off this chart rather than the dynamic engine. 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)
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 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)
Air FranceKLM 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 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)
Air IndiaSWISSLOT Polish AirlinesEgyptAirTurkish Airlines Star Alliance
70,000 post-June-2026, books Air India's nonstop. The sting: CDG lies 80 miles past the 4,000-mile band boundary — the identical seat to Frankfurt costs 40,000. Check the Frankfurt card before you burn here. Turkish via IST books on this same Aeroplan award at the same band — TK's own chart is unpublished; Aeroplan is how you price TK metal.
Feed it: 35,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 70,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 175,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
Air France SkyTeam
Per-segment chart; nonstop = one segment. Air France flies DEL–CDG nonstop, so LotusMiles bills exactly ONE cell — SW Asia × Europe = 70,000, verified cell-for-cell against the official SkyTeam partner table effective 1-Aug-2025. Every CONNECTING build on this program sums each segment instead, which is why most of the India board prices dearer than this. LotusMiles' own SGN/HAN metal runs off a separate chart (25k/60k one-way). One-way.
Feed it: 70,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 70,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 70,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1)
Air IndiaLufthansa 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)
Etihad Airways
Etihad connects DEL–AUH–CDG, but Saver Award seats price dynamically off demand with no published Paris datapoint, plus carrier surcharges. The same Etihad metal to Abu Dhabi books FIXED via Aeroplan — but Aeroplan can't extend that trick to Paris on EY (AUH–CDG isn't Star), so on this corridor Guest is calculator-roulette. Check it only against AA's 42,500 benchmark.
Estimate Etihad Guest Saver Award starting level for the ~4,678-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)
Air FranceKLM 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.
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))
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 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)
Air India Star Alliance
The 100,000-point Europe business tier, ex-Delhi edition — ₹80,000 at house value against Aeroplan's ₹70,000 for the same metal. Maharaja's six feeds are the tiebreak only when Aeroplan space won't show.
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.
Feed it: 100,000 IndusInd Reward Points (1:1) · 50,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 100,000 ICICI Reward Points (1:1)
Air France SkyTeam
Flying Blue prices dynamically — no published India chart. Promo Rewards rotate: a new batch drops on the 1st of each month at ~25% off and the booking window closes with the month. India rarely makes one — Jan 2026 (Mumbai economy), Apr 2026 (Mumbai business), then Jul 2026, which sold Delhi/Mumbai to Paris or Amsterdam business at 63,750 one-way and shut on 31 Jul. Off-promo the 85k baseline holds and popular dates run multiples; five Indian issuers feed the program, so read each month's batch before you transfer.
Estimate Flying Blue is dynamic (no chart); typical off-peak Saver ex-India via CDG/AMS for ~4,080 mi. India-Europe anchors the pre-promo baseline (biz 85k; a 25%-off Promo Rewards batch, on the rare months India makes one, cuts it to 63.75k); peak dates price above, heavy AF/KLM YQ on top.
Feed it: 85,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 42,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 85,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)
Emirates
Emirates flies both legs (DEL–DXB–CDG) but publishes no chart — the Miles Calculator prices per date, premium cabins rose ~15% in the 20-May-2026 devaluation, and Emirates layers heavy surcharges on top. The A380 bar is the draw; Aeroplan's fixed 70,000 and AA's 42,500 are the numbers to beat before you transfer anything.
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: 190,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1) · 480,000 RBL Reward Points (5.05:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 190,000 SBI Travel Credits (2:1)
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 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)
Cathay Pacific oneworld
85,000 for Cathay business to Paris via Hong Kong (JMB 8,001–10,000-mile band) — 34,000 under Asia Miles' 119,000 for the same CX seat, and directly fed where Asia Miles needs SBI only. One-ways are bookable and price off the same chart at the one-way distance; a return re-bands on the combined distance at 130,000, well under 2×85,000. The quiet JMB value play on India–Europe.
Feed it: 42,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 85,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 212,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
Air FranceKLMSaudia 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.
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)
Star Alliance
TAP's 4 May 2026 devaluation lifted India→Europe (its "Europe and North Africa" zone) from 70k/115k to 80k/125k one-way. TAP's own metal and the Lufthansa group carry the heaviest fuel surcharges of any Star program into Europe; Turkish, EgyptAir and Ethiopian routings dodge most of the YQ. Keep the itinerary inside two TAP zones — anything touching a third is billed segment by segment and summed.
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 oneworld
119,000 for the ~8,320-mile Cathay journey via HKG (7,501+ Standard band), the same figure del-akl and del-jfk carry — distance flattens out at the top band. Better-value Europe business exists on this corridor (AA's 42,500 Qsuite), so this is a completeness row for balances already in Asia Miles.
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)
Air FranceKLM SkyTeam
Delta has had no award chart since 2015 — fully dynamic, so ~140,000 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 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))
Qatar AirwaysFinnairOman AirBritish Airways oneworld
AAdvantage prices partner awards off a region-pair chart (Europe ↔ Indian subcontinent), which is direction-agnostic — this corridor's economy and business rows read the identical cell in both directions. First requires a partner actually filing a First cabin on the routing; on this corridor that is Qatar or British Airways metal, and availability is the binding constraint, not the price.
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)
LufthansaSWISSEgyptAirTurkish AirlinesLOT Polish Airlines Star Alliance
Aeroplan prices Star partner awards by total distance FLOWN, not by direction, and this corridor sits in the same 4,001–6,000-mile Within-Atlantic band in both directions — the same band that already prices this corridor's economy and business rows. First is thin on the ground: most Star metal on this corridor files no First cabin.
Feed it: 50,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 100,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 250,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
Flying back? Paris to Delhi on points (CDG–DEL). Or take the whole region: every corridor we price into Europe — 532 of them. Or pick any two hubs — 2,450 corridors priced.