Award flight · one-way
No HYD–JFK nonstop, so the clean routing is Air India via Delhi — and ANA's Star-partner chart is the cheapest business at 68,000, with economy at 40,000. Aeroplan is 75,000/110,000 (over the 8,000-mile band) and Maharaja 40,000/130,000. AA's Qsuite via Doha at 70,000 is the best oneworld seat, JAL via Tokyo the alternative; Emirates and Etihad price dynamically. First carries two real numbers now: AAdvantage's 115,000 region cell — re-read off aa.com's live calculator 2026-08-06 — is the cheapest published first-class price on this board, with Aeroplan's 165,000 distance band the alternative; both charts are blind to direction, so the cells read the same coming home. Every other first-class row is still an estimate, and estimates never headline.
The play · economy
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| Program | Metal / routing | Points | Surcharge | All-in ₹ | vs play |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cathay Asia Miles the play | Cathay Pacific via Hong Kong (oneworld), Standard award | 38,000 | — | ₹38,000 | the play |
| Air India Maharaja Points | Air India via DEL (HYD-DEL-JFK, mainline one award — Star Alliance), Value tier | ~40,000 est. | — | ₹32,000 | 0.8× |
| Air Europa SUMA | SkyTeam partner metal (KLM), India→North America — Air Europa SUMA | 48,000 | — | ₹38,400 | 1.0× |
| ANA Mileage Club | Star-partner award on Air India via Delhi — one-way bookable since 24-Jun-2025 | 40,000 | — | ₹40,000 | 1.1× |
| American Airlines AAdvantage | Qatar Airways via Doha (oneworld partner award) — or British Airways via LHR | 40,000 | — | ₹40,000 | 1.1× |
| Copa Airlines ConnectMiles | Star Alliance partner metal, India→North America — Copa ConnectMiles (fixed region chart) | 40,000 | — | ₹40,000 | 1.1× |
| Air China PhoenixMiles | Star Alliance metal (LH/SQ partner metal — CA itself flies only Delhi from India), India→North America — Air China PhoenixMiles | ~45,000 est. | — | ₹40,500 | 1.1× |
| Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards | British Airways via LHR (oneworld partner award), India→North America — Alaska Atmos | 42,500 | — | ₹42,500 | 1.1× |
| China Eastern Miles | SkyTeam metal (KLM), India→North America — China Eastern Eastern Miles | ~55,000 est. | — | ₹46,750 | 1.2× |
| Avianca LifeMiles | Star Alliance partner metal, India→North America — Avianca LifeMiles | ~47,000 est. | — | ₹47,000 | 1.2× |
| SAS EuroBonus | SkyTeam metal (KLM/Saudia), India→North America — SAS EuroBonus | 54,000 | — | ₹48,600 | 1.3× |
| Aegean Miles+Bonus | Star Alliance partner metal, India→North America — Aegean Miles+Bonus | 50,000 | — | ₹50,000 | 1.3× |
| Air France-KLM Flying Blue | SkyTeam via a Gulf/Europe hub — dynamic; NO Air France/KLM nonstop from Hyderabad | ~55,000 est. | — | ₹55,000 | 1.4× |
| Japan Airlines Mileage Bank | Japan Airlines via Tokyo (oneworld) — JL's India doors are Delhi and Bengaluru, no JL metal at Hyderabad, so position to DEL first — JMB partner distance chart | 50,000 | — | ₹55,000 | 1.4× |
| United MileagePlus | Star Alliance partner metal, India→North America — United MileagePlus | ~60,000 est. | — | ₹60,000 | 1.6× |
| EVA Air Infinity MileageLands | Star Alliance metal (Air India/LH/SQ — EVA itself serves no Indian city; the award rides partner metal), India→North America — EVA Infinity MileageLands | 60,000 | — | ₹60,000 | 1.6× |
| TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go | Star Alliance partner metal, India→North America — TAP Miles&Go | 80,000 | — | ₹64,000 | 1.7× |
| Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer | Singapore Airlines via SIN (Saver) — incl. the SIN-JFK ultra-long-haul nonstop | 65,500 | — | ₹72,050 | 1.9× |
| Air Canada Aeroplan | Air India via Delhi (Star Alliance partner award) — or Ethiopian Airlines via ADD | 75,000 | — | ₹75,000 | 2.0× |
| Delta SkyMiles | SkyTeam partner metal (KLM), India→North America — Delta SkyMiles (dynamic) | ~75,000 est. | — | ₹75,000 | 2.0× |
| Vietnam Airlines Lotusmiles | KLM via AMS (HYD–AMS–JFK) — Vietnam LotusMiles | 85,000 | — | ₹85,000 | 2.2× |
The play · business
Which card mints this?
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One of your cards is in those 7 — see it in the funnel →
| Program | Metal / routing | Points | Surcharge | All-in ₹ | vs play |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANA Mileage Club the play | Star-partner award on Air India via Delhi — one-way bookable since 24-Jun-2025 | 68,000 | — | ₹68,000 | the play |
| Air China PhoenixMiles | Star Alliance metal (LH/SQ partner metal — CA itself flies only Delhi from India), India→North America — Air China PhoenixMiles | ~75,000 est. | — | ₹67,500 | 1.0× |
| American Airlines AAdvantage | Qatar Qsuite via Doha (oneworld partner award) — or British Airways via LHR | 70,000 | — | ₹70,000 | 1.0× |
| Aegean Miles+Bonus | Star Alliance partner metal, India→North America — Aegean Miles+Bonus | 75,000 | — | ₹75,000 | 1.1× |
| Air Europa SUMA | SkyTeam partner metal (KLM), India→North America — Air Europa SUMA | 95,000 | — | ₹76,000 | 1.1× |
| Copa Airlines ConnectMiles | Star Alliance partner metal, India→North America — Copa ConnectMiles (fixed region chart) | 80,000 | — | ₹80,000 | 1.2× |
| Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards | British Airways via LHR (oneworld partner award), India→North America — Alaska Atmos | 85,000 | — | ₹85,000 | 1.3× |
| China Eastern Miles | SkyTeam metal (KLM), India→North America — China Eastern Eastern Miles | ~100,000 est. | — | ₹85,000 | 1.3× |
| Avianca LifeMiles | Star Alliance partner metal, India→North America — Avianca LifeMiles | ~90,000 est. | — | ₹90,000 | 1.3× |
| Air France-KLM Flying Blue | SkyTeam via a Gulf/Europe hub — dynamic; NO Air France/KLM nonstop from Hyderabad | ~95,000 est. | — | ₹95,000 | 1.4× |
| SAS EuroBonus | SkyTeam metal (KLM/Saudia), India→North America — SAS EuroBonus | 108,000 | — | ₹97,200 | 1.4× |
| EVA Air Infinity MileageLands | Star Alliance metal (Air India/LH/SQ — EVA itself serves no Indian city; the award rides partner metal), India→North America — EVA Infinity MileageLands | 97,500 | — | ₹97,500 | 1.4× |
| TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go | Star Alliance partner metal, India→North America — TAP Miles&Go | 125,000 | — | ₹1,00,000 | 1.5× |
| Air India Maharaja Points | Air India via DEL (HYD-DEL-JFK, mainline one award — Star Alliance), Value tier | ~130,000 est. | — | ₹1,04,000 | 1.5× |
| Air Canada Aeroplan | Air India via Delhi (Star Alliance partner award) — or Ethiopian Airlines via ADD | 110,000 | — | ₹1,10,000 | 1.6× |
| United MileagePlus | Star Alliance partner metal, India→North America — United MileagePlus | ~110,000 est. | — | ₹1,10,000 | 1.6× |
| Japan Airlines Mileage Bank | Japan Airlines via Tokyo (oneworld) — JL's India doors are Delhi and Bengaluru, no JL metal at Hyderabad, so position to DEL first — JMB partner distance chart | 100,000 | — | ₹1,10,000 | 1.6× |
| Cathay Asia Miles | Cathay Pacific via Hong Kong (oneworld), Standard award | 119,000 | — | ₹1,19,000 | 1.8× |
| Etihad Guest | Etihad via Abu Dhabi (HYD-AUH-JFK) — dynamic, the documented trap | ~120,000 est. | — | ₹1,20,000 | 1.8× |
| Emirates Skywards | Emirates via Dubai (HYD-DXB-JFK) — Classic Rewards, calculator-priced | ~146,000 est. | — | ₹1,31,400 | 1.9× |
| Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer | Singapore Airlines via SIN (Saver) — incl. the SIN-JFK ultra-long-haul nonstop | 147,500 | — | ₹1,62,250 | 2.4× |
| Vietnam Airlines Lotusmiles | KLM via AMS (HYD–AMS–JFK) — Vietnam LotusMiles | 170,000 | — | ₹1,70,000 | 2.5× |
| Delta SkyMiles | SkyTeam partner metal (KLM), India→North America — Delta SkyMiles (dynamic) | ~230,000 est. | — | ₹2,30,000 | 3.4× |
The play · first
Which card mints this?
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| Program | Metal / routing | Points | Surcharge | All-in ₹ | vs play |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines AAdvantage the play | Qatar Airways via Doha (oneworld partner award) — or British Airways via LHR | 115,000 | — | ₹1,15,000 | the play |
| Air Canada Aeroplan | Air India via Delhi (Star Alliance partner award) — or Ethiopian Airlines via ADD | 165,000 | — | ₹1,65,000 | 1.4× |
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. Cathay Asia Miles, Air France-KLM Flying Blue, Etihad Guest and Emirates Skywards state that a carrier-imposed surcharge is charged on an award. Air India Maharaja Points, American Airlines AAdvantage, Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards, China Eastern Miles, United MileagePlus, Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer and Vietnam Airlines Lotusmiles 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. 11 other programmes priced here publish nothing the desk could read.
Cathay Pacific oneworld
HYD-HKG-JFK on Cathay is ~10,388 flown miles — the 7,501+-mile band, 38,000 economy, the cheapest economy on the corridor. Both legs Cathay metal, one detour via Hong Kong.
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 India Star Alliance
Flat 40,000-point US economy tier via a Delhi connection on Air India metal — ties ANA on economy, loses badly on business.
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: 40,000 IndusInd Reward Points (1:1) · 20,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 40,000 ICICI Reward Points (1:1)
KLM 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))
Air India Star Alliance
ANA's partner chart prices the whole Zone 4 ⇄ Zone 6 pair — India to anywhere in North America, Canada and Mexico included — at 40,000 one-way in economy and 68,000 in business (80,000 / 136,000 round-trip), season-blind and distance-blind, with the one-way cell published since 24-Jun-2025. It wants a single Star partner end to end (Air India here); ANA's own metal via Tokyo is dearer in business at 71,500. The cell is written "to/from" — the same number in both directions. Fuel surcharges apply and Marriott Bonvoy 3:1 is the only Indian road in; miles expire in 36 months.
Feed it: 105,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.63:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 210,000 RBL Reward Points (5.25:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 70,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.75:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
Qatar AirwaysBritish Airways oneworld
40,000 AA miles via Qatar (HYD-DOH-JFK) — 120,000 Bonvoy at 3:1. Region-priced with the Doha connection included.
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 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: 105,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.63:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 210,000 RBL Reward Points (5.25:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 70,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.75:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
LufthansaSingapore Airlines 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: 56,250 HSBC Reward Points (1.25:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 120,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.67:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 240,000 RBL Reward Points (5.33:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
British AirwaysQatar Airways oneworld
Alaska Atmos bands the TOTAL DISTANCE FLOWN, not the nonstop great circle: the cheapest Atmos routing is British Airways via LHR, ~8,260 flown miles against a 8,058-mile nonstop, which reads the Asia-Pacific chart's 7,001-10,000 mi band — 42,500 economy / 85,000 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: 112,500 Amex Membership Rewards (2.65:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 225,000 RBL Reward Points (5.29:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 75,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.76:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
KLM 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: 366,667 Amex Membership Rewards (6.67:1 via Hilton Honors) · 1,375,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (25:1 via Hilton Honors) · 275,000 Axis EDGE Miles (5:1 via Hilton Honors)
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: 141,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 282,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 94,000 HDFC Reward Points (2:1)
KLMSaudia 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)
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: 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)
KLM SkyTeam
Flying Blue prices dynamically — no fixed chart. Air France/KLM pass carrier (YQ) surcharges on own metal, typically €90–110 economy one-way long-haul; typical one-way economy runs 45k–75k and the travel date drives the real number. Mirrored from jfk-hyd: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 55,000 is the jfk-hyd number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of jfk-hyd — Air France-KLM Flying Blue prices the zone pair, not the direction, so this mirrors the jfk-hyd economy cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. Dynamic program — estimate is the typical one-way level for this region-pair (range 45k–75k); not a fixed chart price, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Feed it: 55,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 27,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 55,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)
Japan Airlines oneworld
A JMB partner award in the 10,001-12,000-mile band, 50,000 economy — but HYD has no oneworld nonstop to Tokyo, so it needs a two-stop hop (via HKG then Tokyo). Priced for completeness, awkward to fly.
Feed it: 25,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 50,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 125,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
Star Alliance
United went fully dynamic in 2020 (no fixed chart), so ~60,000 is a typical Saver partner level to North America. But Aeroplan often prices the same Star seat lower, so compare before burning United miles.
Estimate United MileagePlus Saver partner level, India→North America 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: 30,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 150,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2) · 120,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1 via Marriott Bonvoy)
Air IndiaLufthansaSingapore Airlines 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: 60,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 400,000 Amex Membership Rewards (6.67:1 via Hilton Honors) · 1,500,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (25:1 via Hilton Honors)
Star Alliance
TAP's 4 May 2026 devaluation lifted India→North America (its "Canada, USA, Mexico and the Caribbean" zone) from 70k/115k to 80k/125k one-way. That is ONE chart cell, and it holds only while the itinerary stays inside two TAP regions — an Asian gateway onto the transpacific hop. Any build that also crosses Europe spans a third region, and TAP then bills flight by flight and sums: 80k/125k plus 65k/120k = 145k/245k. Lufthansa-group metal carries the heaviest surcharges on Star.
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)
Singapore Airlines Star Alliance
Zone 6 to Zone 13 (US East Coast), 65,500 Saver economy via Singapore, on SQ's SIN-JFK nonstop. More than ANA's 40,000 but a single-carrier SQ product if you value the airline.
Feed it: 65,500 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 32,750 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 131,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1)
Air IndiaEthiopian Airlines Star Alliance
RE-DERIVED: HYD-DEL-JFK flies ~8,091 miles, over the 8,000-mile line — 75,000 economy, a band above Delhi's 60,000 nonstop.
Feed it: 37,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 75,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 187,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
KLM SkyTeam
Delta has had no award chart since 2015 — fully dynamic, so ~75,000 is a representative saver-ish partner level to North America; 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); ~75,000/230,000 is a representative SkyTeam partner saver level India→North America on AF/KLM/KE/VN/MU metal — peak dates and the 2026 partner hikes swing business 1.5–3×.
Feed it: 225,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 450,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 150,000 HSBC Reward Points (2:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL))
KLM SkyTeam
LotusMiles deducts miles PER FLIGHT SEGMENT on its SkyTeam partner table (official chart, effective 1-Aug-2025), and no SkyTeam carrier flies HYD–JFK nonstop — so the price is a SUM, not one cell. Cheapest verified SkyTeam build is KLM HYD–AMS–JFK — per-segment: HYD–AMS 35,000 (SW Asia × Europe) + AMS–JFK 50,000 (Europe × North America) = 85,000. India is SW Asia on that table; LotusMiles' own SGN/HAN metal runs off a separate chart (25k/60k one-way). One-way.
Feed it: 85,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 85,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 85,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1)
Air India Star Alliance
ANA's partner chart prices the whole Zone 4 ⇄ Zone 6 pair — India to anywhere in North America, Canada and Mexico included — at 40,000 one-way in economy and 68,000 in business (80,000 / 136,000 round-trip), season-blind and distance-blind, with the one-way cell published since 24-Jun-2025. It wants a single Star partner end to end (Air India here); ANA's own metal via Tokyo is dearer in business at 71,500. The cell is written "to/from" — the same number in both directions. Fuel surcharges apply and Marriott Bonvoy 3:1 is the only Indian road in; miles expire in 36 months.
Feed it: 174,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.56:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 348,000 RBL Reward Points (5.12:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 116,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.71:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
LufthansaSingapore Airlines 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: 180,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.4:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 360,000 RBL Reward Points (4.8:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 93,750 HSBC Reward Points (1.25:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL))
Qatar AirwaysBritish Airways oneworld
70,000 AA miles for Qatar Qsuite via Doha — the best hard product to New York, 2,000 over ANA, Bonvoy-only at 3:1 (210,000).
Feed it: 210,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 420,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 140,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (2:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
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: 180,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.4:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 360,000 RBL Reward Points (4.8:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 120,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
KLM 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
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: 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)
British AirwaysQatar Airways oneworld
Alaska Atmos bands the TOTAL DISTANCE FLOWN, not the nonstop great circle: the cheapest Atmos routing is British Airways via LHR, ~8,260 flown miles against a 8,058-mile nonstop, which reads the Asia-Pacific chart's 7,001-10,000 mi band — 42,500 economy / 85,000 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: 210,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.47:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 420,000 RBL Reward Points (4.94:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 140,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.65:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
KLM 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: 666,667 Amex Membership Rewards (6.67:1 via Hilton Honors) · 2,500,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (25:1 via Hilton Honors) · 500,000 Axis EDGE Miles (5:1 via Hilton Honors)
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: 270,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 540,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 180,000 HDFC Reward Points (2:1)
KLM SkyTeam
Unlike Delhi/Bengaluru, Hyderabad has no Air France or KLM nonstop, so Flying Blue can't build a clean all-SkyTeam routing to New York — any path needs a SkyTeam feeder and prices dynamically. The 95,000 shown is the India–US business saver level (Jul-2026 datapoint) mirrored from jfk-hyd, not a Hyderabad-specific quote; popular dates run 120,000–175,000+ and the feeder makes saver space rarer here.
Estimate Flying Blue is dynamic (no chart). Reconciled 06-Aug-2026 with the reverse twin jfk-hyd, which carries the more specific and more recent datapoint: India-North America business SAVER prices at 95,000 miles one-way (LiveFromALounge, Jul-2026), with popular dates at 120k-175k+. This row previously read 100,000, extrapolated from the India-Europe pre-promo baseline (biz 85k, or 63.75k in a 25%-off Promo Rewards month) plus a transatlantic continuation - an inference with no India-US datapoint behind it, so the twin wins and this cell now mirrors it. Hyderabad adds routing risk on top - no AF/KLM nonstop, so the saver level assumes a SkyTeam feeder to CDG/AMS and real quotes skew high. ~8,058 mi; heavy AF/KLM YQ on top.
Feed it: 95,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 47,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 95,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)
KLMSaudia 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)
Air IndiaLufthansaSingapore Airlines 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: 97,500 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 650,000 Amex Membership Rewards (6.67:1 via Hilton Honors) · 2,437,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (25:1 via Hilton Honors)
Star Alliance
TAP's 4 May 2026 devaluation lifted India→North America (its "Canada, USA, Mexico and the Caribbean" zone) from 70k/115k to 80k/125k one-way. That is ONE chart cell, and it holds only while the itinerary stays inside two TAP regions — an Asian gateway onto the transpacific hop. Any build that also crosses Europe spans a third region, and TAP then bills flight by flight and sums: 80k/125k plus 65k/120k = 145k/245k. Lufthansa-group metal carries the heaviest surcharges on Star.
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)
Air India Star Alliance
130,000 for Air India's own business via Delhi — versus ANA's 68,000 for the identical routing. Never book AI's long-haul with Maharaja points.
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: 130,000 IndusInd Reward Points (1:1) · 65,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 130,000 ICICI Reward Points (1:1)
Air IndiaEthiopian Airlines Star Alliance
110,000 business in the 8,001+-mile band. ANA books the same metal for 68,000; Aeroplan's value here is award space when ANA can't see it.
Feed it: 55,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 110,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 275,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
Star Alliance
United went fully dynamic in 2020 (no fixed chart), so ~110,000 is a typical Saver partner level to North America. But Aeroplan often prices the same Star seat lower, so compare before burning United miles.
Estimate United MileagePlus Saver partner level, India→North America 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: 55,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 275,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2) · 240,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.18:1 via Marriott Bonvoy)
Japan Airlines oneworld
100,000 business via Tokyo — a fine JAL product, but a two-stop routing from Hyderabad and hard to fund from India. ANA's 68,000 Star seat is the sane business call.
Feed it: 50,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 100,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 250,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
Cathay Pacific oneworld
119,000 business via Hong Kong — Cathay's superb hard product, but above ANA's 68,000 for the more direct Star seat.
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)
Etihad Airways
Dynamic Saver Award pricing on HYD-AUH-JFK — a 110,000-mile base that "never surfaces below 140,000" plus ₹70,000+ in carrier charges. Listed so nobody finds it the expensive way.
Estimate Etihad Guest Saver Award starting level for the ~8,466-mile flown itinerary (via AUH), read off Etihad's last published one-way distance-band structure (top 6,001+ 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: 60,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 120,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 300,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
Emirates
Calculator-only, +15% on premium cabins since the May-2026 devaluation, heavy carrier charges. Emirates flies both legs but prints no number.
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: 292,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1) · 720,000 RBL Reward Points (4.93:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 292,000 SBI Travel Credits (2:1)
Singapore Airlines Star Alliance
147,500 business for the SQ product via Singapore — premium miles for a premium seat, but more than double ANA's 68,000 Star routing.
Feed it: 147,500 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 73,750 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 295,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1)
KLM SkyTeam
LotusMiles deducts miles PER FLIGHT SEGMENT on its SkyTeam partner table (official chart, effective 1-Aug-2025), and no SkyTeam carrier flies HYD–JFK nonstop — so the price is a SUM, not one cell. Cheapest verified SkyTeam build is KLM HYD–AMS–JFK — per-segment: HYD–AMS 70,000 (SW Asia × Europe) + AMS–JFK 100,000 (Europe × North America) = 170,000. India is SW Asia on that table; LotusMiles' own SGN/HAN metal runs off a separate chart (25k/60k one-way). One-way.
Feed it: 170,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 170,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 170,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1)
KLM SkyTeam
Delta has had no award chart since 2015 — fully dynamic, so ~230,000 is a representative saver-ish partner level to North America; 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); ~75,000/230,000 is a representative SkyTeam partner saver level India→North America on AF/KLM/KE/VN/MU metal — peak dates and the 2026 partner hikes swing business 1.5–3×.
Feed it: 690,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 1,380,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 460,000 HSBC Reward Points (2:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL))
Qatar AirwaysBritish Airways oneworld
AAdvantage prices partner awards on a fixed region-to-region chart. First is the chart’s top cabin for the Indian Subcontinent ⇄ Contiguous-48 pair; genuine oneworld first-class metal on this pair is scarce, so the cell is easier to read than to book. That region-to-region cell is the PAIR, not the direction: every Indian-Subcontinent cell reads identically from either origin chart, so this heading has one published number.
Feed it: 345,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 690,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 230,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (2:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
Air IndiaEthiopian Airlines Star Alliance
Aeroplan prices Star partner awards by total distance FLOWN — only a CA$39 partner booking fee plus taxes. First is the published top cabin for this band; a connecting routing that flies farther can land in the next band up. DIRECTION-BLIND BY CONSTRUCTION: Aeroplan bands the DISTANCE FLOWN, so HYD–JFK and JFK–HYD read the SAME chart cell — there is no direction in the chart to get wrong. Re-read against Air Canada's published Flight Reward Chart (2026-04 edition) on 2026-08-05 and promoted from mirrored estimate to a verified chart price.
Feed it: 82,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 165,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 412,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
Flying back? New York to Hyderabad on points (JFK–HYD). Or take the whole region: every corridor we price into North America — 510 of them. Or pick any two hubs — 2,450 corridors priced.