Economy the play 9,000 pts Saudia nonstop — Alfursan 13-zone own-metal chart (verified current)
Saudia SkyTeam
Alfursan own-metal REWARD level, one-way, from the 13-zone chart on the live official miles-redemption page (fetched through a renderer 2026-07-26 — plain fetches get an Imperva interstitial; spec: docs/research/hub-grid/specs/saudia-alfursan.json). Reward+ doubles the price for wider seat access. Saudia is the only SkyTeam metal on India–Saudi nonstops.
Feed it: 27,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 54,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 18,000 SBI Travel Credits (2:1)
Star Alliance partner metal, India→the Gulf — 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LifeMiles prices Star partner metal off an unpublished grid; India→Europe business ~63k is the headline sweet spot (beats Aeroplan).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 The chart is semi-fixed/unpublished, so some bands are estimates.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 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publishes no award chart — Avianca withdrew its public zone table in 2023 and prices Star partner awards off an unpublished internal grid.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: 45,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 90,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 30,000 HDFC Reward Points (2:1)
IndiGo nonstop — BluChip, dynamic (revenue-priced)
IndiGo
IndiGo flies DEL–JED nonstop — Delhi's own airline table lists Jeddah on the 6E row, settling the listings conflict this row used to carry — priced off the live fare — ₹0.40–0.80 per BluChip, min 500 chips, own metal only. Umrah-season fares surge hard, and a fare-linked program surges with them; Maharaja's fixed 12,000 is the seat that ignores the calendar.
Estimate IndiGo BluChip is revenue-linked ~Rs0.50/pt; ~= typical one-way IndiGo economy fare / Rs0.50 for ~2,420 mi - a rupee offset that moves 1:1 with the live fare. Own-metal only, no partners.
Feed it: 48,000 HSBC Reward Points (1.5:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 160,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:1) · 96,000 HDFC Reward Points (3:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL))
Star Alliance partner metal, India→the Gulf — United MileagePlus
Star Alliance
United went fully dynamic in 2020 (no fixed chart), so ~17,500 is a typical Saver partner level to the Gulf. But Aeroplan often prices the same Star seat lower, so compare before burning United miles.
Estimate United MileagePlus Saver partner level, India→the Gulf 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: 8,750 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 43,750 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2) · 52,500 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy)
Star Alliance partner metal, India→the Gulf — 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. 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: 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)
Star Alliance partner metal, India→the Gulf — 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: 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)
Saudia nonstop, India→the Gulf — China Eastern Eastern Miles
Saudia 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: 166,667 Amex Membership Rewards (6.67:1 via Hilton Honors) · 625,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (25:1 via Hilton Honors) · 125,000 Axis EDGE Miles (5:1 via Hilton Honors)
Saudia nonstop, India→the Gulf — Delta SkyMiles (dynamic)
Saudia SkyTeam
Delta has had no award chart since 2015 — fully dynamic, so ~22,000 is a representative saver-ish partner level to the Gulf; 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); ~22,000/60,000 is a representative SkyTeam partner saver level India→the Gulf on Saudia's own nonstop metal — peak dates and the 2026 partner hikes swing business 1.5–3×.
Feed it: 66,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 132,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 44,000 HSBC Reward Points (2:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL))
Qatar Airways via DOH (oneworld partner award), India→the Gulf — Alaska Atmos
Qatar AirwaysOman Air oneworld
Alaska Atmos bands the TOTAL DISTANCE FLOWN, not the nonstop great circle: the cheapest Atmos routing is Qatar Airways via DOH, ~2,411 flown miles against a 2,411-mile nonstop, which reads the Asia-Pacific chart's 1,501-3,000 mi band — 25,000 economy / 50,000 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: 60,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.4:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 120,000 RBL Reward Points (4.8:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 40,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
Saudia nonstop DEL–JED (SkyTeam) — Air Europa SUMA
Saudia SkyTeam
Saudia is SkyTeam, flies Delhi–Jeddah nonstop, and is a named Air Europa SUMA partner — so this is the one India–Gulf pair where SUMA reads a clean nonstop distance. 2,411 miles lands in the 1,751–3,500-mile band at 32,000 Miles one-way in tourist. Partner awards are SUMA call-centre only, paid entirely in Miles, non-refundable; Accor's 1:1 is the only Indian way into the currency.
Feed it: 32,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 64,000 HDFC Reward Points (2:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 160,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL))
Saudia DEL–JED nonstop — Vietnam LotusMiles
Saudia SkyTeam
Per-segment chart; nonstop = one segment. Saudia flies DEL–JED nonstop, so LotusMiles bills exactly ONE cell — SW Asia × Middle East = 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)
SkyTeam metal (Saudia), India→the Gulf — SAS EuroBonus
Saudia SkyTeam
SAS joined SkyTeam on 1-Sept-2024, so EuroBonus now prices SkyTeam metal. India sits in EuroBonus’s "Central, East & South Asia" region and the Gulf in "North/Central Africa & Middle East": 80,000 economy / 160,000 business round-trip on the chart valid from 1-Dec-2025, and one-way is 60% of that. Watch the ×2 multiplier on Vietnam Airlines, China Airlines and Air Europa metal.
Feed it: 336,000 HDFC Reward Points (7:1 via Radisson Rewards) · 336,000 SBI Travel Credits (7:1 via Radisson Rewards) · 840,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (17.5:1 via Radisson Rewards)
Star Alliance partner metal, India→the Gulf — TAP Miles&Go
Star Alliance
The 4 May 2026 chart pulled the Gulf out of TAP's "Asia" zone and gave it a Middle East band of its own: India→Middle East went 40k/60k → 60k/80k one-way, +50% in economy and +33% in business on a short hop. Intra-Asia is now 50k/70k, so Bangkok and Singapore price below Dubai. Heavy fuel surcharges on Lufthansa-group and TAP metal; Turkish, EgyptAir and Ethiopian routings dodge most of the YQ.
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)
Star Alliance metal (Air India — EVA itself serves no Indian city; the award rides partner metal), India→the Gulf — EVA Infinity MileageLands
Air India 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: 51,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 340,000 Amex Membership Rewards (6.67:1 via Hilton Honors) · 1,275,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (25:1 via Hilton Honors)
Business the play 30,000 pts Star Alliance partner metal, India→the Gulf — 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. 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: 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)
Business ~25,000 pts est. Star Alliance partner metal, India→the Gulf — 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 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: 75,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 150,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 50,000 HDFC Reward Points (2:1)
Business ~32,500 pts est. Star Alliance partner metal, India→the Gulf — United MileagePlus
Star Alliance
United went fully dynamic in 2020 (no fixed chart), so ~32,500 is a typical Saver partner level to the Gulf. But Aeroplan often prices the same Star seat lower, so compare before burning United miles.
Estimate United MileagePlus Saver partner level, India→the Gulf 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: 16,250 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 81,250 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2) · 67,500 Amex Membership Rewards (2.08:1 via Marriott Bonvoy)
Saudia nonstop — Alfursan 13-zone own-metal chart (verified current)
Saudia SkyTeam
Alfursan own-metal REWARD level, one-way, from the 13-zone chart on the live official miles-redemption page (fetched through a renderer 2026-07-26 — plain fetches get an Imperva interstitial; spec: docs/research/hub-grid/specs/saudia-alfursan.json). Reward+ doubles the price for wider seat access. Saudia is the only SkyTeam metal on India–Saudi nonstops.
Feed it: 87,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.56:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 174,000 RBL Reward Points (5.12:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 68,000 SBI Travel Credits (2:1)
Star Alliance partner metal, India→the Gulf — 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: 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)
Business ~45,000 pts est. Saudia nonstop, India→the Gulf — China Eastern Eastern Miles
Saudia 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)
Qatar Airways Qsuite via DOH (oneworld) — Avios partner chart, per-segment
Qatar Airways oneworld
Qatar has no DEL–JED nonstop — you route through Doha, and the Avios partner chart sums per segment: DEL–DOH (Zone 3, 24,500 J) + DOH–JED (Zone 2, 18,500 J) = 43,000 Avios, Qsuite both legs. Best seat on the corridor, roughly level with Aeroplan on miles but with Qatar's carrier surcharges on top and a Doha connection to absorb. Re-priced 2026-07-22 to the post-15-Dec-2025 partner bands (milelion primary) — draft used the stale pre-devaluation chart.
Feed it: 43,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 86,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1) · 43,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)
Business ~45,000 pts est. Etihad via Abu Dhabi (one stop) — Saver Award seats, dynamic
Etihad Airways
Etihad flies both legs (DEL–AUH–JED) but Guest prices Saver Award seats dynamically off demand — no published Jeddah datapoint, and real quotes run well past the theoretical distance chart, plus carrier surcharges. Aeroplan's fixed 40,000 on Air India's nonstop is the planning number; check Guest only if you're sitting on Etihad miles.
Estimate Etihad Guest Saver Award starting level for the ~2,417-mile flown itinerary (via AUH), read off Etihad's last published one-way distance-band structure (2,500-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: 22,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 45,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 112,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
Qatar Airways via DOH (oneworld partner award), India→the Gulf — Alaska Atmos
Qatar AirwaysOman Air oneworld
Alaska Atmos bands the TOTAL DISTANCE FLOWN, not the nonstop great circle: the cheapest Atmos routing is Qatar Airways via DOH, ~2,411 flown miles against a 2,411-mile nonstop, which reads the Asia-Pacific chart's 1,501-3,000 mi band — 25,000 economy / 50,000 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: 120,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.4:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 240,000 RBL Reward Points (4.8:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 80,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
Saudia nonstop DEL–JED (SkyTeam) — Air Europa SUMA
Saudia SkyTeam
64,000 Miles for Saudia business Delhi–Jeddah nonstop, 2,411 miles in the 1,751–3,500-mile band — SUMA's cleanest India redemption precisely because no connection is involved and the distance is not in dispute. Call-centre booking only, full payment in Miles, non-refundable.
Feed it: 64,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 128,000 HDFC Reward Points (2:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 320,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL))
Business ~55,000 pts est. Saudia nonstop (SkyTeam partner award) — dynamic pricing
Saudia SkyTeam
The corridor's third nonstop is Saudia's, and the only Indian-fed program that books SV metal is Flying Blue (SkyTeam) — dynamically priced, no published India–Jeddah datapoint, and India Promo Rewards never name Saudi routes. Alfursan itself runs fixed region charts but publishes no citable number, and only SBI Travel Credits (2:1) feeds it. A door that exists, not a price you can plan.
Estimate Flying Blue is dynamic (no chart); typical off-peak Saver ex-India via CDG/AMS for ~2,420 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: 55,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 27,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 55,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)
Business ~60,000 pts est. Saudia nonstop, India→the Gulf — Delta SkyMiles (dynamic)
Saudia SkyTeam
Delta has had no award chart since 2015 — fully dynamic, so ~60,000 is a representative saver-ish partner level to the Gulf; 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); ~22,000/60,000 is a representative SkyTeam partner saver level India→the Gulf on Saudia's own nonstop metal — peak dates and the 2026 partner hikes swing business 1.5–3×.
Feed it: 180,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 360,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 120,000 HSBC Reward Points (2:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL))
Star Alliance partner metal, India→the Gulf — TAP Miles&Go
Star Alliance
The 4 May 2026 chart pulled the Gulf out of TAP's "Asia" zone and gave it a Middle East band of its own: India→Middle East went 40k/60k → 60k/80k one-way, +50% in economy and +33% in business on a short hop. Intra-Asia is now 50k/70k, so Bangkok and Singapore price below Dubai. Heavy fuel surcharges on Lufthansa-group and TAP metal; Turkish, EgyptAir and Ethiopian routings dodge most of the YQ.
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)
Star Alliance metal (Air India — EVA itself serves no Indian city; the award rides partner metal), India→the Gulf — EVA Infinity MileageLands
Air India 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: 67,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 446,667 Amex Membership Rewards (6.67:1 via Hilton Honors) · 1,675,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (25:1 via Hilton Honors)
Saudia DEL–JED nonstop — Vietnam LotusMiles
Saudia SkyTeam
Per-segment chart; nonstop = one segment. Saudia flies DEL–JED nonstop, so LotusMiles bills exactly ONE cell — SW Asia × Middle East = 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)
Business ~90,000 pts est. Emirates business via DXB (DEL–DXB–JED) — Classic Rewards, calculator-priced
Emirates
Emirates flies no DEL–JED nonstop, so this is DEL–DXB–JED via Dubai on two Emirates sectors — calculator-only pricing, up ~15% for premium after the May-2026 devaluation, plus heavy surcharges and a connection. Rarely the math winner against Aeroplan's fixed 40,000 or Qsuite's 38,500, but the A380 first leg tempts. Price it before committing.
Estimate Emirates Skywards Saver calculator estimate for ~2,420 mi ex-India (India-DXB + DXB-destination summed); dynamic - no published chart, Saver space thin, peak/demand move it +-~20%.
Feed it: 180,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1) · 450,000 RBL Reward Points (5:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 180,000 SBI Travel Credits (2:1)
SkyTeam metal (Saudia), India→the Gulf — SAS EuroBonus
Saudia SkyTeam
SAS joined SkyTeam on 1-Sept-2024, so EuroBonus now prices SkyTeam metal. India sits in EuroBonus’s "Central, East & South Asia" region and the Gulf in "North/Central Africa & Middle East": 80,000 economy / 160,000 business round-trip on the chart valid from 1-Dec-2025, and one-way is 60% of that. Watch the ×2 multiplier on Vietnam Airlines, China Airlines and Air Europa metal.
Feed it: 672,000 HDFC Reward Points (7:1 via Radisson Rewards) · 672,000 SBI Travel Credits (7:1 via Radisson Rewards) · 1,680,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (17.5:1 via Radisson Rewards)