Award route card · one-way
The trunk with no printed price. Air India flies it, the April-2026 chart covers it — Hyderabad sits in Delhi's 3,000–5,000-point short domestic tier — but no source publishes the route-level number in either cabin, and this desk prints charts, not ranges. So the only fixed prices on one of India's busiest corridors belong to Air Canada: 7,500 Aeroplan in economy, 12,500 in business, on AI metal. That's the absurdity of partner charts in one row — a Canadian program is the only one quoting Delhi–Hyderabad. IndiGo and Akasa own the frequency; BluChip prices off the live fare with no chart, and Akasa has no program our cards reach. When Maharaja's route table surfaces, this corridor gets its anchor back.
The play · business
Feed it: 6,250 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 12,500 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 31,250 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
| Program | Metal / routing | Points | Surcharge | All-in ₹ | vs play |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air Canada Aeroplan | Air India nonstop (Star Alliance partner award) | 12,500 | — | ₹12,500 | the play |
The play · economy
Feed it: 3,750 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 7,500 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 18,750 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
| Program | Metal / routing | Points | Surcharge | All-in ₹ | vs play |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air Canada Aeroplan | Air India nonstop (Star Alliance partner award) | 7,500 | — | ₹7,500 | the play |
| IndiGo BluChip | IndiGo nonstop — BluChip, dynamic (revenue-priced) | dynamic | — | — | — |
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.
12,500 in the 0–1,000-mile band for Air India's domestic business — fixed, surcharge-free, chain-funded HDFC 2:1 / Bonvoy 3:1. A 2¼-hour narrowbody recliner; the row exists because nothing else on the corridor prints a J price at all.
Feed it: 6,250 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 12,500 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 31,250 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
786 great-circle miles sits in Aeroplan's 0–1,000-mile Within-Atlantic band — 7,500 points, surcharge-free, on Air India's nonstop. Dearer than most cash fares on a hyper-competitive trunk, but it is, absurdly, the corridor's only published economy award.
Feed it: 3,750 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 7,500 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 18,750 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
IndiGo runs the densest schedule on the corridor, but BluChip has no award chart — redemptions track the live fare at a dynamic ₹0.40–0.60 per BluChip, minimum 500, taxes cash-only. Nothing to plan around; useful only to bleed a balance onto a fare you'd have paid anyway.
Ways in: HSBC Reward Points 1.5:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL) · Axis EDGE Reward Points 5:1 · HDFC Reward Points 3:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)