Tokyo to Bengaluru on points

Japan Airlines own metal from NRT, priced off the published to/from-Japan route chart (6,702 km)

Japan Airlines oneworld

Japan Airlines own-metal Tokyo→Bengaluru. JAL publishes true ONE-WAY base miles per destination on JAL-operated flights - no seasons in Economy/Premium Economy/Business; only First is season-banded (figures here are regular season, with low ~12% cheaper and high ~12% dearer). These are base-award prices; when base space is gone JAL's dynamic 'PLUS' pricing can be 4-8x higher - never pay it. JAL levies carrier-imposed fuel surcharges on its own awards, repriced with fuel: heaviest to Europe and North America, lightest within Asia. Bangkok is the standard Tokyo service (JL031/JL034 prices 4,000-5,000 miles higher in every cabin). First appears only where JAL's chart actually sells it - Boston, San Diego, Melbourne, Frankfurt, Delhi and Bengaluru are explicitly First-free. A valid Japan Airlines routing is assumed.

Feed it: 8,750 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 17,500 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 43,750 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)

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

Singapore AirlinesThai Airways Star Alliance

PhoenixMiles publishes no India-origin level and its zone tables do not map cleanly onto this city pair, so the value is extrapolated off the nearest published anchors. North Asia is Air China’s only genuine strength; elsewhere it is a weak Star pricer with heavy fuel surcharges. Mirrored from blr-nrt: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 22,000 is the blr-nrt number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-nrt — Air China PhoenixMiles prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the blr-nrt economy cell one-for-one; 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: 27,500 HSBC Reward Points (1.25:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 60,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.73:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 120,000 RBL Reward Points (5.45:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

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

Cathay Pacific oneworld

Cathay stopped publishing charts in May 2026 — this is the reconstructed Standard table, which bands the distance FLOWN including layovers. Standard space is capped per flight and dynamic "Choice" pricing takes over once it is gone. SBI feeds Asia Miles 1:1. Mirrored from blr-nrt: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 20,000 is the blr-nrt number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-nrt — Cathay Asia Miles prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the blr-nrt economy cell one-for-one; 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)

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)

Air India via DEL/BOM to Tokyo–Haneda (Star Alliance) — no AI BLR–Tokyo nonstop; AI flies Haneda, not Narita

Air India Star Alliance

Air India’s April-2026 region-tier award — the tier price covers the whole mainline award including a domestic feeder, not a leg-sum. Mirrored from blr-nrt: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 30,000 is the blr-nrt number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

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. This direction is additionally mirrored from the reverse corridor — Maharaja prices the zone pair, not the direction of travel — and has not been sampled separately.

Feed it: 30,000 IndusInd Reward Points (1:1) · 15,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 30,000 ICICI Reward Points (1:1)

Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ Japan — 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 NRT → BLR and BLR → NRT 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)

Japan Airlines nonstop NRT-BLR (oneworld partner award), India ⇄ Japan — Alaska Atmos

Japan AirlinesCathay PacificSriLankan Airlines oneworld

Alaska Atmos bands the TOTAL DISTANCE FLOWN, not the nonstop great circle, so a connecting build can read a higher band than the map suggests — plus the $20 partner booking fee per person each way (up from $12.50 on 1-Jul-2026). Mirrored from blr-nrt: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 30,000 is the blr-nrt number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-nrt — Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the blr-nrt economy cell one-for-one; 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)

Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ Japan — Avianca LifeMiles

Star Alliance

LifeMiles publishes no chart: Avianca withdrew its public zone table in 2023 and prices Star partner awards off an unpublished internal grid — its one real edge. Business is the value cabin here; economy is mediocre. Mirrored from blr-nrt: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 32,000 is the blr-nrt number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-nrt — Avianca LifeMiles prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the blr-nrt economy cell one-for-one; 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: 96,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 192,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 64,000 HDFC Reward Points (2:1)

Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ Japan — United MileagePlus

Star Alliance

United went fully dynamic in 2020 (no fixed chart), so this is a typical Saver partner level on Star metal for this pair. But Aeroplan often prices the same Star seat lower. Mirrored from blr-nrt: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 32,500 is the blr-nrt number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-nrt — United MileagePlus prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the blr-nrt economy cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. United MileagePlus Saver partner level, India ⇄ Japan 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)

Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ Japan — Copa ConnectMiles (fixed region chart)

Star Alliance

Copa ConnectMiles prices Star partner metal off a FIXED region chart (India sits in Copa’s "Central Asia" zone). 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 35,000 is the same published cell as blr-nrt, re-read off the official Copa PDF on 2026-08-06 rather than inferred.

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)

Star Alliance partner metal, Aeroplan distance-band award (6,702 km) — or Thai Airways via BKK

Thai Airways 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)

Etihad Airways via AUH (NRT–AUH–BLR), or Malaysia Airlines via KUL (NRT–KUL–BLR), or Japan Airlines nonstop — Flying Blue partner award (dynamic)

Etihad AirwaysMalaysia AirlinesJapan Airlines

Flying Blue has no award chart, but its partner awards are additive per segment, so this routing bands to 40,000 economy (NRT–AUH 8,089 km → 25,000 + AUH–BLR 2,723 km → 15,000 = 40,000 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 Etihad Airways (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: NRT–AUH 8,089 km → 25,000 + AUH–BLR 2,723 km → 15,000 = 40,000 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: 40,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 20,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 40,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)

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

Singapore AirlinesThai Airways Star Alliance

EVA Infinity MileageLands prices Star metal off its zone chart (India sits in "Central/South Asia"; one-way = half round-trip). EVA serves no Indian city, so the award rides partner metal end to end. 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, India ⇄ Japan — TAP Miles&Go

Star Alliance

TAP Miles&Go prices Star partner metal off its region chart, and the 4-May-2026 devaluation lifted its long-haul cells. A cell holds only while the itinerary stays inside two TAP regions — a build that crosses a third region is billed flight by flight and summed. Lufthansa-group metal carries the heaviest surcharges on Star. Mirrored from blr-nrt: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 50,000 is the blr-nrt number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-nrt — TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the blr-nrt economy cell one-for-one; 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

Singapore Airlines still publishes a fixed Saver zone chart (1-Nov-2025 edition) and prices SQ metal through Changi off it; the ex-Singapore table is a different chart from the India-origin one, and a Changi backtrack can run over MPM and reprice. Mirrored from blr-nrt: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 42,000 is the blr-nrt number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-nrt — Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the blr-nrt economy cell one-for-one; 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 (NRT–HAN–BLR) — Vietnam LotusMiles

Vietnam Airlines SkyTeam

LotusMiles deducts miles PER FLIGHT SEGMENT and its zone table is symmetric, so the westbound build prices exactly like the eastbound: NRT–HAN 50,000 (NE Asia 2 × SE Asia) + HAN–BLR 50,000 (SE Asia × SW Asia) = 100,000. Vietnam Airlines is the ONLY SkyTeam carrier serving Bengaluru, and it serves it from HANOI, not Saigon — and VN flies HAN–NRT 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 itinerary is TWO segments. CORRECTED 2026-08-01: the board previously routed this through Saigon as well (NRT–SGN–HAN–BLR) and charged a third HAN–SGN segment the itinerary never flies — 120,000 against the 100,000 it actually costs. Etihad's NRT–AUH–BLR build sums to 80,000 economy / 200,000 business and is refused here for the same reason the desk refused it eastbound: Abu Dhabi is a backtrack to Japan, and a corridor prices on one metal in both directions. 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.

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), India ⇄ Japan — Air China PhoenixMiles

Singapore AirlinesThai Airways Star Alliance

PhoenixMiles publishes no India-origin level and its zone tables do not map cleanly onto this city pair, so the value is extrapolated off the nearest published anchors. North Asia is Air China’s only genuine strength; elsewhere it is a weak Star pricer with heavy fuel surcharges. Mirrored from blr-nrt: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 40,000 is the blr-nrt number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-nrt — Air China PhoenixMiles prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the blr-nrt business cell one-for-one; 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: 50,000 HSBC Reward Points (1.25:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 105,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.63:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 210,000 RBL Reward Points (5.25:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

Japan Airlines own metal from NRT, priced off the published to/from-Japan route chart (6,702 km)

Japan Airlines oneworld

Japan Airlines own-metal Tokyo→Bengaluru. JAL publishes true ONE-WAY base miles per destination on JAL-operated flights - no seasons in Economy/Premium Economy/Business; only First is season-banded (figures here are regular season, with low ~12% cheaper and high ~12% dearer). These are base-award prices; when base space is gone JAL's dynamic 'PLUS' pricing can be 4-8x higher - never pay it. JAL levies carrier-imposed fuel surcharges on its own awards, repriced with fuel: heaviest to Europe and North America, lightest within Asia. Bangkok is the standard Tokyo service (JL031/JL034 prices 4,000-5,000 miles higher in every cabin). First appears only where JAL's chart actually sells it - Boston, San Diego, Melbourne, Frankfurt, Delhi and Bengaluru are explicitly First-free. A valid Japan Airlines routing is assumed.

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

Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ Japan — 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 NRT → BLR and BLR → NRT 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)

Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ Japan — United MileagePlus

Star Alliance

United went fully dynamic in 2020 (no fixed chart), so this is a typical Saver partner level on Star metal for this pair. But Aeroplan often prices the same Star seat lower. Mirrored from blr-nrt: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 55,000 is the blr-nrt number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-nrt — United MileagePlus prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the blr-nrt business cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. United MileagePlus Saver partner level, India ⇄ Japan 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: 27,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 137,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2) · 120,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.18:1 via Marriott Bonvoy)

Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ Japan — TAP Miles&Go

Star Alliance

TAP Miles&Go prices Star partner metal off its region chart, and the 4-May-2026 devaluation lifted its long-haul cells. A cell holds only while the itinerary stays inside two TAP regions — a build that crosses a third region is billed flight by flight and summed. Lufthansa-group metal carries the heaviest surcharges on Star. Mirrored from blr-nrt: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 70,000 is the blr-nrt number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-nrt — TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the blr-nrt business cell one-for-one; 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

Cathay stopped publishing charts in May 2026 — this is the reconstructed Standard table, which bands the distance FLOWN including layovers. Standard space is capped per flight and dynamic "Choice" pricing takes over once it is gone. SBI feeds Asia Miles 1:1. Mirrored from blr-nrt: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 60,000 is the blr-nrt number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-nrt — Cathay Asia Miles prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the blr-nrt business cell one-for-one; 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 partner metal, India ⇄ Japan — Avianca LifeMiles

Star Alliance

LifeMiles publishes no chart: Avianca withdrew its public zone table in 2023 and prices Star partner awards off an unpublished internal grid — its one real edge. Business is the value cabin here; economy is mediocre. Mirrored from blr-nrt: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 60,000 is the blr-nrt number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-nrt — Avianca LifeMiles prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the blr-nrt business cell one-for-one; 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: 180,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 360,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 120,000 HDFC Reward Points (2:1)

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

Singapore AirlinesThai Airways Star Alliance

EVA Infinity MileageLands prices Star metal off its zone chart (India sits in "Central/South Asia"; one-way = half round-trip). EVA serves no Indian city, so the award rides partner metal end to end. 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)

Japan Airlines nonstop NRT-BLR (oneworld partner award), India ⇄ Japan — Alaska Atmos

Japan AirlinesCathay PacificSriLankan Airlines oneworld

Alaska Atmos bands the TOTAL DISTANCE FLOWN, not the nonstop great circle, so a connecting build can read a higher band than the map suggests — plus the $20 partner booking fee per person each way (up from $12.50 on 1-Jul-2026). Mirrored from blr-nrt: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 60,000 is the blr-nrt number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-nrt — Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the blr-nrt business cell one-for-one; 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, India ⇄ Japan — Copa ConnectMiles (fixed region chart)

Star Alliance

Copa ConnectMiles prices Star partner metal off a FIXED region chart (India sits in Copa’s "Central Asia" zone). 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 65,000 is the same published cell as blr-nrt, re-read off the official Copa PDF on 2026-08-06 rather than inferred.

Feed it: 165,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.54:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 330,000 RBL Reward Points (5.08:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 110,000 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (1.69:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)

Star Alliance partner metal, Aeroplan distance-band award (6,702 km) — or Thai Airways via BKK

Thai Airways 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)

Etihad Airways via AUH (NRT–AUH–BLR), or Malaysia Airlines via KUL (NRT–KUL–BLR), or Japan Airlines nonstop — Flying Blue partner award (dynamic)

Etihad AirwaysMalaysia AirlinesJapan Airlines

Flying Blue has no award chart, but its partner awards are additive per segment, so this routing bands to 80,000 business (NRT–AUH 8,089 km → 50,000 + AUH–BLR 2,723 km → 30,000 = 80,000 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 Etihad Airways (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: NRT–AUH 8,089 km → 50,000 + AUH–BLR 2,723 km → 30,000 = 80,000 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: 80,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 40,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 80,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)

Singapore Airlines via SIN (one stop), Saver

Singapore Airlines Star Alliance

Singapore Airlines still publishes a fixed Saver zone chart (1-Nov-2025 edition) and prices SQ metal through Changi off it; the ex-Singapore table is a different chart from the India-origin one, and a Changi backtrack can run over MPM and reprice. Mirrored from blr-nrt: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 88,000 is the blr-nrt number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.

Estimate Reverse of blr-nrt — Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the blr-nrt business cell one-for-one; 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 (NRT–HAN–BLR) — Vietnam LotusMiles

Vietnam Airlines SkyTeam

LotusMiles deducts miles PER FLIGHT SEGMENT and its zone table is symmetric, so the westbound build prices exactly like the eastbound: NRT–HAN 110,000 (NE Asia 2 × SE Asia) + HAN–BLR 80,000 (SE Asia × SW Asia) = 190,000. Vietnam Airlines is the ONLY SkyTeam carrier serving Bengaluru, and it serves it from HANOI, not Saigon — and VN flies HAN–NRT 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 itinerary is TWO segments. CORRECTED 2026-08-01: the board previously routed this through Saigon as well (NRT–SGN–HAN–BLR) and charged a third HAN–SGN segment the itinerary never flies — 235,000 against the 190,000 it actually costs. Etihad's NRT–AUH–BLR build sums to 80,000 economy / 200,000 business and is refused here for the same reason the desk refused it eastbound: Abu Dhabi is a backtrack to Japan, and a corridor prices on one metal in both directions. 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.

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 (6,702 km) — or Thai Airways via BKK

Thai Airways 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)