Seoul to Bengaluru on points

oneworld partner metal, AAdvantage region award — or Cathay Pacific via HKG, or Malaysia Airlines via KUL, or SriLankan Airlines via CMB

Cathay PacificMalaysia AirlinesSriLankan Airlines oneworld

AAdvantage prices partner awards on a fixed region-to-region chart. A valid oneworld routing is assumed.

Feed it: 67,500 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 135,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 45,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (2:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

Star Alliance metal (SQ/TG partner metal — CA itself flies only Delhi from India), North Asia→India — Air China PhoenixMiles

Singapore AirlinesThai Airways Star Alliance

Air China PhoenixMiles prices its own metal (Beijing→India, 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). Mirrored from blr-icn: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 17,000 is that corridor's number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Mirrored from blr-icn — Air China PhoenixMiles prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this reads the blr-icn economy cell back the other way; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. 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: 21,250 HSBC Reward Points (1.25:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 51,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 102,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

Cathay Pacific via HKG (oneworld), Standard award — cumulative-distance pricing

Cathay Pacific oneworld

ICN-HKG-BLR totals ~3,743 flown miles — the 2,751-5,000 band at 20,000 Standard, no India type-2 premium up there. On a corridor with no nonstop anyway, this is the cheapest published economy to Seoul, on a program SBI feeds 1:1 — the quiet win. Mirrored from blr-icn: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 20,000 is that corridor's number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Mirrored from blr-icn — Cathay Asia Miles prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this reads the blr-icn economy cell back the other way; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.

Feed it: 40,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1) · 20,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 120,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

Star Alliance partner metal, North Asia→India — United MileagePlus

Star Alliance

United went fully dynamic in 2020 (no fixed chart), so ~25,000 is a typical Saver partner level for this region pair. But Aeroplan often prices the same Star seat lower, so compare before burning United miles. Mirrored from blr-icn: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 25,000 is that corridor's number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Mirrored from blr-icn — United MileagePlus prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this reads the blr-icn economy cell back the other way; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. United MileagePlus Saver partner level, North Asia→India 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: 12,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 62,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2) · 60,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.4:1 via Marriott Bonvoy)

Cathay Pacific via HKG (oneworld) on JAL partner chart

Cathay Pacific oneworld

JMB's oneworld partner chart sums the sectors: ICN-HKG-BLR's ~3,743 flown miles sit in the 2,001-4,000 band — 23,000 one-way economy on Cathay metal. 3,000 over Asia Miles for the same seats, but JMB is direct-fed (HSBC 1:1, Axis EDGE 1:2, SBI 2:1). JAL's own metal can't do this trip — its own-metal chart prices Japan departures only. Mirrored from blr-icn: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 23,000 is that corridor's number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Mirrored from blr-icn — Japan Airlines Mileage Bank prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this reads the blr-icn economy cell back the other way; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.

Feed it: 11,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 23,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 57,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)

SkyTeam metal (VN), North Asia→India — China Eastern Eastern Miles

Vietnam Airlines SkyTeam

China Eastern prices its own metal (Shanghai/Kunming→India 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. Mirrored from blr-icn: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 30,000 is that corridor's number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Mirrored from blr-icn — China Eastern Miles prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this reads the blr-icn economy cell back the other way; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. 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: 200,000 Amex Membership Rewards (6.67:1 via Hilton Honors) · 750,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (25:1 via Hilton Honors) · 150,000 Axis EDGE Miles (5:1 via Hilton Honors)

SkyTeam partner metal (VN), North Asia→India — Air Europa SUMA

Vietnam Airlines 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 1,751–3,500 mi band. The 2020 chart that made Europe→India 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. Mirrored from blr-icn: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 32,000 is that corridor's number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Mirrored from blr-icn — Air Europa SUMA prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this reads the blr-icn economy cell back the other way; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. Priced off the corridor's own great-circle distance (~3,425 mi, inside the 1,751–3,500 band) — but Air Europa never publishes how a connecting award measures distance; if SUMA sums the flown segments this corridor tips past 3,500 mi into 48,000/95,000. Call-centre-only booking, no calculator to probe.

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))

Star Alliance partner metal, North Asia→India — Avianca LifeMiles

Star Alliance

LifeMiles prices Star partner metal off an unpublished grid; Europe→India 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. Mirrored from blr-icn: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 27,000 is that corridor's number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Mirrored from blr-icn — Avianca LifeMiles prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this reads the blr-icn economy cell back the other way; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. 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: 81,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 162,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 54,000 HDFC Reward Points (2:1)

Vietnam Airlines via HAN (ICN–HAN–BLR) — EuroBonus’s only redeemable metal on this pair, ×2 VN partner multiplier

Vietnam Airlines SkyTeam

Re-metalled 2026-08-01 by the multi-metal phantom sweep. The five carriers this row used to name — Air France, KLM, Korean Air, Saudia and SAS — cannot build Bengaluru–Seoul between them: Korean Air’s only Indian station is Delhi, SAS has never served India at all, Saudia’s network turns west at Jeddah, and an Air France or KLM build would backtrack through Paris or Amsterdam. Vietnam Airlines via Hanoi is the one EuroBonus-REDEEMABLE carrier that covers both ends (China Eastern and Singapore Airlines are earn-only on EuroBonus, and the Etihad carve-out is Europe↔Abu Dhabi), and VN metal carries EuroBonus’s ×2 partner multiplier — so the intra-“Central, East & South Asia” cell (25,000 economy / 50,000 business round-trip, one-way 60% = 15,000 / 30,000) doubles to 30,000 economy / 60,000 business one-way. Mirrored from blr-icn: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 30,000 is that corridor's number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Mirrored from blr-icn — SAS EuroBonus prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this reads the blr-icn economy cell back the other way; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.

Feed it: 210,000 HDFC Reward Points (7:1 via Radisson Rewards) · 210,000 SBI Travel Credits (7:1 via Radisson Rewards) · 525,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (17.5:1 via Radisson Rewards)

Star Alliance partner metal, North Asia→India — 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. That chart is a single upper-triangular ZONE-PAIR matrix — 45 published cells for 9 zones, exactly one per unordered pair — so ICN → BLR and BLR → ICN resolve to the same cell. Re-read against the chart and promoted from mirror-estimate to chart read on 2026-08-06. 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)

Cathay Pacific via HKG (oneworld partner award), North Asia→India — Alaska Atmos

Cathay PacificSriLankan AirlinesMalaysia Airlines oneworld

Alaska Atmos bands the TOTAL DISTANCE FLOWN, not the nonstop great circle: the cheapest Atmos routing is Cathay Pacific via HKG, ~3,743 flown miles against a 3,425-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. Mirrored from blr-icn: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 30,000 is that corridor's number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Mirrored from blr-icn — Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this reads the blr-icn economy cell back the other way; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.

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)

SkyTeam partner metal (VN), North Asia→India — Delta SkyMiles (dynamic)

Vietnam Airlines SkyTeam

Delta has had no award chart since 2015 — fully dynamic, so ~32,000 is a representative saver-ish partner level for this region pair; 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. Mirrored from blr-icn: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 32,000 is that corridor's number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Mirrored from blr-icn — Delta SkyMiles prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this reads the blr-icn economy cell back the other way; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. Delta SkyMiles is fully dynamic (no chart since 2015); ~32,000/85,000 is a representative SkyTeam partner saver level North Asia→India on AF/KLM/KE/VN/MU metal — peak dates and the 2026 partner hikes swing business 1.5–3×.

Feed it: 96,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 192,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 64,000 HSBC Reward Points (2:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL))

Malaysia Airlines via KUL (ICN–KUL–BLR) — Flying Blue partner award (dynamic), or Vietnam Airlines via HAN

Malaysia AirlinesVietnam Airlines

Flying Blue has no award chart, but its partner awards are additive per segment, so this routing bands to 37,500 economy (ICN–KUL 4,611 km → 22,500 + KUL–BLR 2,884 km → 15,000 = 37,500 economy). Partner awards pass the operating carrier's surcharges — the published Oman Air datapoints run US$190–390 one-way — and Flying Blue publishes no per-route table, so this row's cash side stays unpublished. Cabin scope: Etihad sells Flying Blue awards in economy and business only — first, including the Apartment, is not bookable with Miles. First IS bookable on a short list of other partners (Oman Air on Muscat–Bangkok alone, China Eastern, Garuda), none of which is a first routing this board prices, so there is no Flying Blue first row here.

Estimate Flying Blue publishes no chart, but prices PARTNER awards PER SEGMENT — One Mile at a Time, 6-Jun-2024 on the Oman Air launch: "you're paying the per segment pricing anyway", and the additive structure reproduces all four published connection datapoints inside 5%. This row rides Malaysia Airlines (a Flying Blue non-alliance partner redemption — Flying Blue runs ONE partner engine over SkyTeam and non-alliance metal alike, which the 13-Jan-2025 repricing proved by moving Etihad and Delta together), so it is banded segment by segment: ICN–KUL 4,611 km → 22,500 + KUL–BLR 2,884 km → 15,000 = 37,500 economy. Bands anchored on the published Flying Blue partner datapoints (one-way business: Muscat–Dubai 6,100, Abu Dhabi–Kuwait 9,500, Muscat–Bangkok 42,900, Abu Dhabi–Bangkok 45,000, Muscat–Munich 45,800, Abu Dhabi–Johannesburg 48,000, Abu Dhabi–Washington 87,000), with economy at half of business — the one published long-haul economy anchor is Toronto–Abu Dhabi 43,500 against an ~87,000 business segment of the same length. The <=1,200 km rung is the one exception — re-fitted cabin by cabin on its own published quotes on 2026-08-02, hence 5,000 / 11,500 rather than half-and-half. Dates and demand move the real number.

Feed it: 37,500 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 18,750 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 37,500 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)

Star Alliance partner metal, North Asia→India — 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 — Europe→India 45k business, Sub-Saharan Africa→India 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. Copa's partner chart is a strictly upper-triangular region matrix — one cell per unordered region pair, no direction axis at all — so 37,500 is the same published cell as blr-icn, re-read off the official Copa PDF on 2026-08-06 rather than inferred.

Feed it: 97,500 Amex Membership Rewards (2.6:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 195,000 RBL Reward Points (5.2:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 65,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.73:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

Star Alliance partner metal, Aeroplan distance-band award (5,511 km) — or Singapore Airlines via SIN, or Thai Airways via BKK, or Air India via DEL

Singapore AirlinesThai AirwaysAir India Star Alliance

Aeroplan prices Star partner awards by total distance FLOWN. This row is the direct great-circle band; a connecting routing that flies farther can land in the next band up. A valid Star routing (nonstop or via a Star hub within the maximum permitted mileage) is assumed.

Feed it: 20,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 40,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 100,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)

Star Alliance metal (Air India/SQ/TG — EVA itself serves no Indian city; the award rides partner metal), North Asia→India — EVA Infinity MileageLands

Air IndiaSingapore AirlinesThai Airways 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. US→India business ~97.5k (possibly ~55-60k on a fully-EVA routing). EVA's own Star Alliance requirement table is a triangular ORIGIN/DESTINATION REGIONAL ZONES matrix carrying one cell per region pair, so no second number exists for this heading.

Feed it: 40,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 266,667 Amex Membership Rewards (6.67:1 via Hilton Honors) · 1,000,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (25:1 via Hilton Honors)

Star Alliance partner metal, North Asia→India — TAP Miles&Go

Star Alliance

TAP's 4 May 2026 chart repriced India — which sits in its "Asia" origin zone — and intra-Asia went from 40k/60k to 50k/70k one-way, still flat regardless of distance (fine to Tokyo, poor to Colombo). The Gulf was carved out into a Middle East zone of its own at 60k/80k, so Bangkok now undercuts Dubai. Heavy fuel surcharges on Lufthansa-group and TAP metal; steer via Turkish, EgyptAir or Ethiopian to dodge the YQ. Mirrored from blr-icn: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 50,000 is that corridor's number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Mirrored from blr-icn — TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this reads the blr-icn economy cell back the other way; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.

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)

Singapore Airlines via SIN (one stop), Saver

Singapore Airlines Star Alliance

Seoul shares Zone 7 ("Japan & South Korea") with Tokyo, so Seoul→BLR prices exactly like Tokyo→BLR: 42,000 Saver economy via Changi. More than Asia Miles' 20,000 and a longer detour, but mintable from four Indian issuers without a hotel program. ASTERISKED: over-MPM SIN routing recomputes above the printed reference fare. Mirrored from blr-icn: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 42,000 is that corridor's number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Mirrored from blr-icn — Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this reads the blr-icn economy cell back the other way; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.

Feed it: 42,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 21,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 84,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1)

Vietnam Airlines via HAN (ICN–HAN–BLR) — Vietnam LotusMiles

Vietnam Airlines SkyTeam

LotusMiles deducts miles PER FLIGHT SEGMENT on its SkyTeam partner table (official chart, effective 1-Aug-2025), and no SkyTeam carrier flies ICN–BLR nonstop — so the price is a SUM, not one cell. Cheapest verified SkyTeam build is Vietnam Airlines ICN–HAN–BLR — per-segment: HAN–BLR 50,000 (SW Asia × SE Asia) + ICN–HAN 50,000 (SE Asia × NE Asia 2) = 100,000. Bengaluru is a HANOI-attributed Vietnam Airlines station and VN flies ICN–HAN NONSTOP (Hanoi's own airlines-and-destinations table lists the nonstop and so does the far end's, dual-sourced 2026-08-01), so the Saigon leg is not a segment this itinerary flies: the build is TWO segments, not three. CORRECTED 2026-08-01 — the board previously priced SGN–HAN–BLR–ICN at 120,000, one SGN–HAN segment too many. India is South West Asia on that table and Japan/Korea are Northeast Asia 2 — the row Vietnam Airlines prices on a different curve entirely (Tokyo/Osaka/Seoul business is DEARER than Hong Kong at 110,000 a segment, while economy is cheaper at 50,000). LotusMiles' own SGN/HAN metal runs off a separate chart (25k/60k one-way). One-way. Re-read against the chart in THIS direction on 06-Aug-2026: the official LotusMiles partner table is one upper-triangular zone-pair grid — 66 printed cells for 66 unordered zone pairs, with no from/to distinction to read — and miles are deducted per flight segment, so the reverse itinerary flies the same segments and sums the same cells. Verified, not an estimate.

Feed it: 100,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 100,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 100,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1)

oneworld partner metal, AAdvantage region award — or Cathay Pacific via HKG, or Malaysia Airlines via KUL, or SriLankan Airlines via CMB

Cathay PacificMalaysia AirlinesSriLankan Airlines oneworld

AAdvantage prices partner awards on a fixed region-to-region chart. A valid oneworld routing is assumed.

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 metal (SQ/TG partner metal — CA itself flies only Delhi from India), North Asia→India — Air China PhoenixMiles

Singapore AirlinesThai Airways Star Alliance

Air China PhoenixMiles prices its own metal (Beijing→India, 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). Mirrored from blr-icn: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 30,000 is that corridor's number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Mirrored from blr-icn — Air China PhoenixMiles prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this reads the blr-icn business cell back the other way; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. 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)

SkyTeam metal (VN), North Asia→India — China Eastern Eastern Miles

Vietnam Airlines SkyTeam

China Eastern prices its own metal (Shanghai/Kunming→India 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. Mirrored from blr-icn: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 45,000 is that corridor's number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Mirrored from blr-icn — China Eastern Miles prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this reads the blr-icn business cell back the other way; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. 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)

Star Alliance partner metal, North Asia→India — United MileagePlus

Star Alliance

United went fully dynamic in 2020 (no fixed chart), so ~45,000 is a typical Saver partner level for this region pair. But Aeroplan often prices the same Star seat lower, so compare before burning United miles. Mirrored from blr-icn: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 45,000 is that corridor's number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Mirrored from blr-icn — United MileagePlus prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this reads the blr-icn business cell back the other way; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. United MileagePlus Saver partner level, North Asia→India 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: 22,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 112,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2) · 105,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.33:1 via Marriott Bonvoy)

Star Alliance partner metal, North Asia→India — 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. That chart is a single upper-triangular ZONE-PAIR matrix — 45 published cells for 9 zones, exactly one per unordered pair — so ICN → BLR and BLR → ICN resolve to the same cell. Re-read against the chart and promoted from mirror-estimate to chart read on 2026-08-06. 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 (2.67:1 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)

Cathay Pacific business via HKG (oneworld) on JAL partner chart

Cathay Pacific oneworld

42,000 one-way business through Hong Kong on the 2,001-4,000-mile partner band — under SKYPASS's unreachable Prestige, well under KrisFlyer's 88,000, and HSBC feeds it 1:1 instantly. The quiet business answer to Seoul from a Bengaluru balance. Mirrored from blr-icn: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 42,000 is that corridor's number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Mirrored from blr-icn — Japan Airlines Mileage Bank prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this reads the blr-icn business cell back the other way; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.

Feed it: 21,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 42,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 105,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)

Star Alliance partner metal, North Asia→India — Avianca LifeMiles

Star Alliance

LifeMiles prices Star partner metal off an unpublished grid; Europe→India 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. Mirrored from blr-icn: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 50,000 is that corridor's number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Mirrored from blr-icn — Avianca LifeMiles prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this reads the blr-icn business cell back the other way; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. 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: 150,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 300,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 100,000 HDFC Reward Points (2:1)

SkyTeam partner metal (VN), North Asia→India — Air Europa SUMA

Vietnam Airlines 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 1,751–3,500 mi band. The 2020 chart that made Europe→India 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. Mirrored from blr-icn: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 64,000 is that corridor's number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Mirrored from blr-icn — Air Europa SUMA prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this reads the blr-icn business cell back the other way; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. Priced off the corridor's own great-circle distance (~3,425 mi, inside the 1,751–3,500 band) — but Air Europa never publishes how a connecting award measures distance; if SUMA sums the flown segments this corridor tips past 3,500 mi into 48,000/95,000. Call-centre-only booking, no calculator to probe.

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))

Vietnam Airlines via HAN (ICN–HAN–BLR) — EuroBonus’s only redeemable metal on this pair, ×2 VN partner multiplier

Vietnam Airlines SkyTeam

Re-metalled 2026-08-01 by the multi-metal phantom sweep. The five carriers this row used to name — Air France, KLM, Korean Air, Saudia and SAS — cannot build Bengaluru–Seoul between them: Korean Air’s only Indian station is Delhi, SAS has never served India at all, Saudia’s network turns west at Jeddah, and an Air France or KLM build would backtrack through Paris or Amsterdam. Vietnam Airlines via Hanoi is the one EuroBonus-REDEEMABLE carrier that covers both ends (China Eastern and Singapore Airlines are earn-only on EuroBonus, and the Etihad carve-out is Europe↔Abu Dhabi), and VN metal carries EuroBonus’s ×2 partner multiplier — so the intra-“Central, East & South Asia” cell (25,000 economy / 50,000 business round-trip, one-way 60% = 15,000 / 30,000) doubles to 30,000 economy / 60,000 business one-way. Mirrored from blr-icn: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 60,000 is that corridor's number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Mirrored from blr-icn — SAS EuroBonus prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this reads the blr-icn business cell back the other way; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.

Feed it: 420,000 HDFC Reward Points (7:1 via Radisson Rewards) · 420,000 SBI Travel Credits (7:1 via Radisson Rewards) · 1,050,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (17.5:1 via Radisson Rewards)

Star Alliance partner metal, North Asia→India — TAP Miles&Go

Star Alliance

TAP's 4 May 2026 chart repriced India — which sits in its "Asia" origin zone — and intra-Asia went from 40k/60k to 50k/70k one-way, still flat regardless of distance (fine to Tokyo, poor to Colombo). The Gulf was carved out into a Middle East zone of its own at 60k/80k, so Bangkok now undercuts Dubai. Heavy fuel surcharges on Lufthansa-group and TAP metal; steer via Turkish, EgyptAir or Ethiopian to dodge the YQ. Mirrored from blr-icn: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 70,000 is that corridor's number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Mirrored from blr-icn — TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this reads the blr-icn business cell back the other way; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.

Feed it: 180,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.57:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 360,000 RBL Reward Points (5.14:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 120,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.71:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

Cathay Pacific business via HKG (oneworld), Standard award — cumulative-distance pricing

Cathay Pacific oneworld

60,000 Standard for two Cathay business sectors — SKYPASS has no Indian bank feed at all while Asia Miles takes SBI at 1:1, and against KrisFlyer's 88,000 via Changi it's fewer miles for arguably better metal. Standard space capped, book early. Mirrored from blr-icn: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 60,000 is that corridor's number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Mirrored from blr-icn — Cathay Asia Miles prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this reads the blr-icn business cell back the other way; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.

Feed it: 120,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1) · 60,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 300,000 RBL Reward Points (5:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

Star Alliance metal (Air India/SQ/TG — EVA itself serves no Indian city; the award rides partner metal), North Asia→India — EVA Infinity MileageLands

Air IndiaSingapore AirlinesThai Airways 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. US→India business ~97.5k (possibly ~55-60k on a fully-EVA routing). EVA's own Star Alliance requirement table is a triangular ORIGIN/DESTINATION REGIONAL ZONES matrix carrying one cell per region pair, so no second number exists for this heading.

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 partner metal, North Asia→India — 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 — Europe→India 45k business, Sub-Saharan Africa→India 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. Copa's partner chart is a strictly upper-triangular region matrix — one cell per unordered region pair, no direction axis at all — so 60,000 is the same published cell as blr-icn, re-read off the official Copa PDF on 2026-08-06 rather than inferred.

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)

Cathay Pacific via HKG (oneworld partner award), North Asia→India — Alaska Atmos

Cathay PacificSriLankan AirlinesMalaysia Airlines oneworld

Alaska Atmos bands the TOTAL DISTANCE FLOWN, not the nonstop great circle: the cheapest Atmos routing is Cathay Pacific via HKG, ~3,743 flown miles against a 3,425-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. Mirrored from blr-icn: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 60,000 is that corridor's number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Mirrored from blr-icn — Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this reads the blr-icn business cell back the other way; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.

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 partner metal, Aeroplan distance-band award (5,511 km) — or Singapore Airlines via SIN, or Thai Airways via BKK, or Air India via DEL

Singapore AirlinesThai AirwaysAir India Star Alliance

Aeroplan prices Star partner awards by total distance FLOWN. This row is the direct great-circle band; a connecting routing that flies farther can land in the next band up. A valid Star routing (nonstop or via a Star hub within the maximum permitted mileage) is assumed.

Feed it: 37,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 75,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 187,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)

Malaysia Airlines via KUL (ICN–KUL–BLR) — Flying Blue partner award (dynamic), or Vietnam Airlines via HAN

Malaysia AirlinesVietnam Airlines

Flying Blue has no award chart, but its partner awards are additive per segment, so this routing bands to 75,000 business (ICN–KUL 4,611 km → 45,000 + KUL–BLR 2,884 km → 30,000 = 75,000 business). Partner awards pass the operating carrier's surcharges — the published Oman Air datapoints run US$190–390 one-way — and Flying Blue publishes no per-route table, so this row's cash side stays unpublished. Cabin scope: Etihad sells Flying Blue awards in economy and business only — first, including the Apartment, is not bookable with Miles. First IS bookable on a short list of other partners (Oman Air on Muscat–Bangkok alone, China Eastern, Garuda), none of which is a first routing this board prices, so there is no Flying Blue first row here.

Estimate Flying Blue publishes no chart, but prices PARTNER awards PER SEGMENT — One Mile at a Time, 6-Jun-2024 on the Oman Air launch: "you're paying the per segment pricing anyway", and the additive structure reproduces all four published connection datapoints inside 5%. This row rides Malaysia Airlines (a Flying Blue non-alliance partner redemption — Flying Blue runs ONE partner engine over SkyTeam and non-alliance metal alike, which the 13-Jan-2025 repricing proved by moving Etihad and Delta together), so it is banded segment by segment: ICN–KUL 4,611 km → 45,000 + KUL–BLR 2,884 km → 30,000 = 75,000 business. Bands anchored on the published Flying Blue partner datapoints (one-way business: Muscat–Dubai 6,100, Abu Dhabi–Kuwait 9,500, Muscat–Bangkok 42,900, Abu Dhabi–Bangkok 45,000, Muscat–Munich 45,800, Abu Dhabi–Johannesburg 48,000, Abu Dhabi–Washington 87,000), with economy at half of business — the one published long-haul economy anchor is Toronto–Abu Dhabi 43,500 against an ~87,000 business segment of the same length. The <=1,200 km rung is the one exception — re-fitted cabin by cabin on its own published quotes on 2026-08-02, hence 5,000 / 11,500 rather than half-and-half. Dates and demand move the real number.

Feed it: 75,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 37,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 75,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)

SkyTeam partner metal (VN), North Asia→India — Delta SkyMiles (dynamic)

Vietnam Airlines SkyTeam

Delta has had no award chart since 2015 — fully dynamic, so ~32,000 is a representative saver-ish partner level for this region pair; 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. Mirrored from blr-icn: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 85,000 is that corridor's number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Mirrored from blr-icn — Delta SkyMiles prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this reads the blr-icn business cell back the other way; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. Delta SkyMiles is fully dynamic (no chart since 2015); ~32,000/85,000 is a representative SkyTeam partner saver level North Asia→India on AF/KLM/KE/VN/MU metal — peak dates and the 2026 partner hikes swing business 1.5–3×.

Feed it: 255,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 510,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 170,000 HSBC Reward Points (2:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL))

Singapore Airlines via SIN (one stop), Saver

Singapore Airlines Star Alliance

Zone 7 → Zone 6 Saver, same rate as Tokyo: 88,000 miles for two SQ business legs through Changi. More than double JMB's 42,000 via HKG on this very corridor — direct-fed and SQ metal both legs, but the miles gap is the story. Asterisked (over-MPM). Completeness. Mirrored from blr-icn: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 88,000 is that corridor's number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Mirrored from blr-icn — Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel, so this reads the blr-icn business cell back the other way; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.

Feed it: 88,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 44,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 176,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1)

Vietnam Airlines via HAN (ICN–HAN–BLR) — Vietnam LotusMiles

Vietnam Airlines SkyTeam

LotusMiles deducts miles PER FLIGHT SEGMENT on its SkyTeam partner table (official chart, effective 1-Aug-2025), and no SkyTeam carrier flies ICN–BLR nonstop — so the price is a SUM, not one cell. Cheapest verified SkyTeam build is Vietnam Airlines ICN–HAN–BLR — per-segment: HAN–BLR 80,000 (SW Asia × SE Asia) + ICN–HAN 110,000 (SE Asia × NE Asia 2) = 190,000. Bengaluru is a HANOI-attributed Vietnam Airlines station and VN flies ICN–HAN NONSTOP (Hanoi's own airlines-and-destinations table lists the nonstop and so does the far end's, dual-sourced 2026-08-01), so the Saigon leg is not a segment this itinerary flies: the build is TWO segments, not three. CORRECTED 2026-08-01 — the board previously priced SGN–HAN–BLR–ICN at 235,000, one SGN–HAN segment too many. India is South West Asia on that table and Japan/Korea are Northeast Asia 2 — the row Vietnam Airlines prices on a different curve entirely (Tokyo/Osaka/Seoul business is DEARER than Hong Kong at 110,000 a segment, while economy is cheaper at 50,000). LotusMiles' own SGN/HAN metal runs off a separate chart (25k/60k one-way). One-way. Re-read against the chart in THIS direction on 06-Aug-2026: the official LotusMiles partner table is one upper-triangular zone-pair grid — 66 printed cells for 66 unordered zone pairs, with no from/to distinction to read — and miles are deducted per flight segment, so the reverse itinerary flies the same segments and sums the same cells. Verified, not an estimate.

Feed it: 190,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 190,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 190,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1)

oneworld partner metal, AAdvantage region award — or Cathay Pacific via HKG, or Malaysia Airlines via KUL, or SriLankan Airlines via CMB

Cathay PacificMalaysia AirlinesSriLankan Airlines oneworld

AAdvantage prices partner awards on a fixed region-to-region chart. A valid oneworld routing is assumed.

Feed it: 150,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 300,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 100,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (2:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

Star Alliance partner metal, Aeroplan distance-band award (5,511 km) — or Singapore Airlines via SIN, or Thai Airways via BKK, or Air India via DEL

Singapore AirlinesThai AirwaysAir India Star Alliance

Aeroplan prices Star partner awards by total distance FLOWN. This row is the direct great-circle band; a connecting routing that flies farther can land in the next band up. A valid Star routing (nonstop or via a Star hub within the maximum permitted mileage) is assumed.

Feed it: 47,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 95,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 237,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)