Economy the play 17,500 pts oneworld partner metal, AAdvantage region award — or Qatar via DOH, or Qatar Airways via DOH, or Oman Air via MCT
Qatar AirwaysOman Air oneworld
AAdvantage prices partner awards on a fixed region-to-region chart. First is the chart’s top cabin for this region pair, so the cell is easier to read than to book wherever no oneworld carrier flies a first cabin on the sector. 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: 52,500 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 105,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 35,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (2:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
Air India via BOM (MAA–BOM–AUH; BOM–AUH on Air India Express) — Maharaja Middle East tier
Air IndiaAir India Express
Air India Group flies the whole routing on its own metal — MAA–BOM on mainline, BOM–AUH on Air India Express — so it books as one Maharaja award at the flat 12,000 Middle East economy tier (Mumbai is on the way, no backtrack). Economy only: the AIX leg carries no business and AI mainline doesn't serve Abu Dhabi. Aeroplan's 15,000 on Etihad's own nonstop is the cleaner buy; this is the fixed-chart alternative.
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: 12,000 IndusInd Reward Points (1:1) · 6,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 12,000 ICICI Reward Points (1:1)
IndiGo nonstop — BluChip, dynamic (revenue-priced)
IndiGo
IndiGo flies MAA-AUH nonstop, fare-linked at ~₹0.40-0.80 per BluChip. With Etihad's own metal Aeroplan-bookable at a fixed 15,000 economy, this is a convenience row for BluChip balances only.
Estimate IndiGo BluChip is revenue-linked ~Rs0.50/pt; ~= typical one-way IndiGo economy fare / Rs0.50 for ~1,843 mi - a rupee offset that moves 1:1 with the live fare. Own-metal only, no partners.
Feed it: 30,000 HSBC Reward Points (1.5:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 100,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:1) · 60,000 HDFC Reward Points (3:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL))
Etihad nonstop — an Aeroplan SELECT PARTNER (dynamic column); Air India no longer flies Abu Dhabi
Etihad Airways
Aeroplan prices Star partner awards by total distance FLOWN — only a CA$39 partner booking fee plus taxes. The only metal on this nonstop is Etihad, a named Select Partner, so the number is the published dynamic floor and not the flat 15,000 band cell: live quotes sit at or above 12,500 and climb in high-demand periods. Reconciled 2026-08-06 with auh-maa, which now reads the same Select column.
Estimate Etihad is one of Aeroplan's named SELECT PARTNERS ("Select Partners include United Airlines, Emirates, Flydubai, Etihad Airways…"), and the Flight Reward Chart prices that column DYNAMICALLY. The 1,001-2,000-mile Within-Atlantic band this 1,843-mile hop reads prints "Starting at" floors of 12,500 economy / 22,500 business / 40,000 first for Air Canada and/or Select Partners — against a flat 15,000 / 22,500 / 40,000 for "All other partners", a cell that does NOT apply to Etihad metal. We carry the published Select floor, not the fixed cell; live quotes sit at or above it and climb in high-demand periods. No fixed-price Star partner flies this corridor either: Air India abandoned Abu Dhabi post-merger (data/airline-networks.yaml, notServed), and ET/MS/TK reach AUH only by backtracking through ADD/CAI/IST, which lands in the 4,001-6,000-mile band at 42,500 / 70,000.
Feed it: 6,250 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 12,500 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 31,250 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
Etihad nonstop — dynamic Saver Award pricing, calculator-only
Etihad Airways
Etihad publishes no chart for its own metal — Saver Award prices MAA-AUH per date, usually cheapest at the economy end but with surcharges even in back. Price it against the ₹11-16k cash fare, or take Aeroplan's fixed 15,000.
Estimate Etihad Guest Saver calculator estimate for ~1,843 mi ex-India (total India-AUH-destination distance band); dynamic - GuestSeat space limited, peak/demand +-~20%, real business often runs above the Saver floor.
Feed it: 7,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 15,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 37,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
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)
Etihad nonstop MAA–AUH, or Oman Air via MCT — Flying Blue partner award (dynamic)
Etihad AirwaysOman Air
Flying Blue prices dynamically — no fixed chart — and bills partner awards PER SEGMENT, so a connection is a sum. Air France/KLM pass carrier (YQ) surcharges on own metal, and only economy and business are bookable on partners. Mirrored from auh-maa: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 15,000 is the auh-maa number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of auh-maa — Air France-KLM Flying Blue prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the auh-maa economy cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. Flying Blue is dynamic and prices partner awards PER SEGMENT (One Mile at a Time, 6-Jun-2024: "you're paying the per segment pricing anyway"). No SkyTeam carrier serves Chennai at all, so this row rides Etihad — a Flying Blue redemption partner since 27-Nov-2023 — nonstop: 2,966 km banded to 15,000 = 15,000 economy. Bands anchored on published Flying Blue partner datapoints (business one-way: 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); economy is half of business, the one published economy anchor. Dates and demand move the real number.
Feed it: 15,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 7,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 15,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)
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)
Oman Air via MCT (oneworld partner award), India→the Gulf — Alaska Atmos
Oman AirQatar Airways oneworld
Alaska Atmos bands the TOTAL DISTANCE FLOWN, not the nonstop great circle: the cheapest Atmos routing is Oman Air via MCT, ~1,845 flown miles against a 1,843-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)
Etihad nonstop MAA–AUH — Vietnam Lotusmiles partner award
Etihad Airways
Chennai has no SkyTeam service at all — its own airport table lists British Airways, Cathay, Ethiopian, Lufthansa, Malaysia, Qatar, Singapore, Thai, SriLankan, Oman Air, Etihad, Emirates, Air India and the Indian low-costs, and not one SkyTeam member — so the AF/KLM/Korean/Saudia metal this row used to claim could never lift you out of MAA. Re-metalled onto Etihad 2026-08-01 after the SkyTeam phantom test that purged Air Europa SUMA from the same corridors. Lotusmiles partner awards are not bookable online — Vietnam Airlines takes them through its contact centre — so treat availability as the binding constraint, not the price. Vietnam Airlines' own metal never comes near either end: VN reaches DEL/BOM from Saigon and BLR/HYD from Hanoi, and no Gulf point at all. One-way.
Estimate Etihad is a named Lotusmiles redemption partner — Vietnam Airlines' own partner table lists EY with award booking classes I (business) and N (economy) — and it flies MAA–AUH nonstop. The price is the published Southwest Asia x Middle East cell (35,000 economy / 70,000 business one-way). Estimated, not verified, for one reason: Lotusmiles publishes that 11-zone table for SkyTeam metal plus China Southern and ANA, and points non-SkyTeam partners at a separate 10-zone "Award Zone Definition on Other Airlines" whose mileage table Vietnam Airlines does not publish anywhere. India is South West Asia and the Gulf is Middle East under BOTH zone definitions, so the cell lookup is not in doubt — only whether Etihad metal prices off the same grid.
Feed it: 35,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 35,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 35,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1)
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)
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 ~22,500 pts est. Etihad nonstop — an Aeroplan SELECT PARTNER, priced dynamically off a "Starting at" floor
Etihad Airways
Aeroplan quotes Etihad's MAA-AUH flat bed from 22,500 and prices it dynamically — a floor, not a fare. Air India mainline skips Abu Dhabi entirely, so there is no fixed-price flat bed from Chennai to compare against; what Aeroplan reliably delivers is the absence of carrier fuel fees, not a guaranteed number. Check the live quote before transferring.
Estimate Etihad is one of Aeroplan's named SELECT PARTNERS ("Select Partners include United Airlines, Emirates, Flydubai, Etihad Airways…"), and the Flight Reward Chart prices that column DYNAMICALLY. The 1,001-2,000-mile Within-Atlantic band this 1,843-mile hop reads prints "Starting at 12,500 pts" economy and "Starting at 22,500 pts" business for Air Canada and/or Select Partners — against a flat 15,000 / 22,500 for "All other partners", a cell that does NOT apply to Etihad metal. We carry the published Select floor, not the fixed cell; live quotes sit at or above it and climb in high-demand periods. No fixed-price Star partner flies this corridor either: Air India abandoned Abu Dhabi, and ET/MS/TK reach AUH only by backtracking through ADD/CAI/IST, which lands in the 4,001-6,000-mile band at 42,500 / 70,000.
Feed it: 11,250 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 22,500 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 56,250 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
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 ~30,000 pts est. Etihad nonstop MAA–AUH, or Oman Air via MCT — Flying Blue partner award (dynamic)
Etihad AirwaysOman Air
Flying Blue prices dynamically — no fixed chart — and bills partner awards PER SEGMENT, so a connection is a sum. Air France/KLM pass carrier (YQ) surcharges on own metal, and only economy and business are bookable on partners. Mirrored from auh-maa: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 30,000 is the auh-maa number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of auh-maa — Air France-KLM Flying Blue prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the auh-maa business cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. Flying Blue is dynamic and prices partner awards PER SEGMENT (One Mile at a Time, 6-Jun-2024: "you're paying the per segment pricing anyway"). No SkyTeam carrier serves Chennai at all, so this row rides Etihad — a Flying Blue redemption partner since 27-Nov-2023 — nonstop: 2,966 km banded to 30,000 = 30,000 business. Bands anchored on published Flying Blue partner datapoints (business one-way: 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); economy is half of business, the one published economy anchor. Dates and demand move the real number.
Feed it: 30,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 15,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 30,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)
oneworld partner metal, AAdvantage region award — or Qatar via DOH, or Qatar Airways via DOH, or Oman Air via MCT
Qatar AirwaysOman Air oneworld
AAdvantage prices partner awards on a fixed region-to-region chart. First is the chart’s top cabin for this region pair, so the cell is easier to read than to book wherever no oneworld carrier flies a first cabin on the sector. 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: 90,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 180,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 60,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (2:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
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)
Business ~35,000 pts est. Etihad nonstop — dynamic Saver Award pricing, calculator-only
Etihad Airways
Dynamic Saver Award pricing plus Etihad's carrier surcharges for its own front cabin — no chart to quote, so the number above is a distance-band estimate. On a sub-4-hour hop the surcharges can rival the cash fare; Aeroplan's fixed 22,500 business is almost always the smarter burn.
Estimate Etihad Guest Saver calculator estimate for ~1,843 mi ex-India (total India-AUH-destination distance band); dynamic - GuestSeat space limited, peak/demand +-~20%, real business often runs above the Saver floor.
Feed it: 17,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 35,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 87,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
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)
Oman Air via MCT (oneworld partner award), India→the Gulf — Alaska Atmos
Oman AirQatar Airways oneworld
Alaska Atmos bands the TOTAL DISTANCE FLOWN, not the nonstop great circle: the cheapest Atmos routing is Oman Air via MCT, ~1,845 flown miles against a 1,843-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)
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)
Business ~70,000 pts est. Etihad nonstop MAA–AUH — Vietnam Lotusmiles partner award
Etihad Airways
Chennai has no SkyTeam service at all — its own airport table lists British Airways, Cathay, Ethiopian, Lufthansa, Malaysia, Qatar, Singapore, Thai, SriLankan, Oman Air, Etihad, Emirates, Air India and the Indian low-costs, and not one SkyTeam member — so the AF/KLM/Korean/Saudia metal this row used to claim could never lift you out of MAA. Re-metalled onto Etihad 2026-08-01 after the SkyTeam phantom test that purged Air Europa SUMA from the same corridors. Lotusmiles partner awards are not bookable online — Vietnam Airlines takes them through its contact centre — so treat availability as the binding constraint, not the price. Vietnam Airlines' own metal never comes near either end: VN reaches DEL/BOM from Saigon and BLR/HYD from Hanoi, and no Gulf point at all. One-way.
Estimate Etihad is a named Lotusmiles redemption partner — Vietnam Airlines' own partner table lists EY with award booking classes I (business) and N (economy) — and it flies MAA–AUH nonstop. The price is the published Southwest Asia x Middle East cell (35,000 economy / 70,000 business one-way). Estimated, not verified, for one reason: Lotusmiles publishes that 11-zone table for SkyTeam metal plus China Southern and ANA, and points non-SkyTeam partners at a separate 10-zone "Award Zone Definition on Other Airlines" whose mileage table Vietnam Airlines does not publish anywhere. India is South West Asia and the Gulf is Middle East under BOTH zone definitions, so the cell lookup is not in doubt — only whether Etihad metal prices off the same grid.
Feed it: 70,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 70,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 70,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1)
First the play 40,000 pts oneworld partner metal, AAdvantage region award — or Qatar via DOH, or Qatar Airways via DOH, or Oman Air via MCT
Qatar AirwaysOman Air oneworld
AAdvantage prices partner awards on a fixed region-to-region chart. First is the chart’s top cabin for this region pair, so the cell is easier to read than to book wherever no oneworld carrier flies a first cabin on the sector. 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: 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)
Etihad nonstop — an Aeroplan SELECT PARTNER (dynamic column); Air India no longer flies Abu Dhabi
Etihad Airways
40,000 is the published Select-Partner floor for the 1,001-2,000-mile Within-Atlantic band, not a fixed price: Etihad rides Aeroplan's dynamic column, so treat it as a starting point, confirm the live quote, and confirm the cabin exists on the aircraft you are booking. Reconciled 2026-08-06 with auh-maa.
Estimate Etihad is one of Aeroplan's named SELECT PARTNERS ("Select Partners include United Airlines, Emirates, Flydubai, Etihad Airways…"), and the Flight Reward Chart prices that column DYNAMICALLY. The 1,001-2,000-mile Within-Atlantic band this 1,843-mile hop reads prints "Starting at" floors of 12,500 economy / 22,500 business / 40,000 first for Air Canada and/or Select Partners — against a flat 15,000 / 22,500 / 40,000 for "All other partners", a cell that does NOT apply to Etihad metal. We carry the published Select floor, not the fixed cell; live quotes sit at or above it and climb in high-demand periods. No fixed-price Star partner flies this corridor either: Air India abandoned Abu Dhabi post-merger (data/airline-networks.yaml, notServed), and ET/MS/TK reach AUH only by backtracking through ADD/CAI/IST, which lands in the 4,001-6,000-mile band at 42,500 / 70,000.
Feed it: 20,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 40,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 100,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)