Award route card · one-way
The honeymoon's second boarding pass. The desk's readers fly BOM–MLE for 10,000 Maharaja points or a cheap fare, do the overwater villa, then want week two in Singapore or Bali — and KrisFlyer obliges with a quirk: the Maldives sits in Zone 6 with all of India, so MLE–SIN Saver costs exactly what BOM–SIN costs. 19,000 economy, 45,000 business, on SQ's nonstop widebody. That 45,000-mile J Saver (~₹49,500 at house value) is the honeymoon flex that actually clears: cash J fares out of Malé are resort-priced. Seven Indian issuers feed KrisFlyer; nobody else publishes an ex-Malé number at all.
The play · business
Feed it: 45,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 22,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 90,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1)
| Program | Metal / routing | Points | Surcharge | All-in ₹ | vs play |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer | Singapore Airlines nonstop, Saver (Zone 6 chart) | 45,000 | — | ₹49,500 | the play |
The play · economy
Feed it: 19,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 9,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 38,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1)
| Program | Metal / routing | Points | Surcharge | All-in ₹ | vs play |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer | Singapore Airlines nonstop, Saver (Zone 6 chart) | 19,000 | — | ₹20,900 | the play |
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.
45,000 Saver — the same price as ex-India for a route where SQ regularly swings a widebody with proper J. The honeymoon upgrade that's actually bookable; Saver space tracks resort seasons, so shoulder months open first.
Feed it: 45,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 22,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 90,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1)
Zone 6 covers the Maldives, so Malé prices like Mumbai: 19,000 Saver post-Nov-2025. Against Malé's inflated point-to-point cash fares this clears more often than the same redemption ex-India; taxes ex-MLE unpublished.
Feed it: 19,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 9,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 38,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1)