Award route card · one-way
Air Arabia's home hub and IndiGo own the HYD–SHJ nonstop, both low-cost with no award chart. The one chartable seat is Maharaja's flat 12,000 economy, bookable on all-Air-India-Group metal via a hub (HYD–DEL mainline, DEL–SHJ on Air India Express). Economy only — AIX flies no business cabin and AI mainline skips Sharjah — and with no oneworld or Star nonstop, no Avios or Aeroplan here.
The play · economy
Feed it: 12,000 IndusInd Reward Points (1:1) · 6,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 12,000 ICICI Reward Points (1:1)
| Program | Metal / routing | Points | Surcharge | All-in ₹ | vs play |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air India Maharaja Points | Air India via DEL (HYD-DEL-SHJ, AI mainline + AIX one award — not Star Alliance), Value tier | 12,000 | — | ₹9,600 | 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.
Sharjah is the flat 12,000-point Middle-East tier. AI mainline flies HYD-DEL and AIX flies DEL-SHJ, so the whole routing is AI/AIX metal — one Maharaja award at the zone rate, economy only (AIX has no business cabin). Verify the connection prices at 12,000 before transferring.
Feed it: 12,000 IndusInd Reward Points (1:1) · 6,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 12,000 ICICI Reward Points (1:1)
IndiGo flies HYD-SHJ nonstop (as does Air Arabia), but both are low-cost with no award chart — a BluChip just offsets the live fare at ~₹0.40-0.80, min 500 chips. Cash territory; the 12,000 Maharaja is the only points play.
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)