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Pune to Malé on points

30,000 pts cheapest economy · Air Canada Aeroplan PNQ → MLE great-circle 1,600 km · 994 mi — short-haul 2 programs priced as of

Pune → Malé priced from Pune, not redirected to Delhi: 3 ways to buy this seat with points. The cheapest verified business seat on the board is 40,000 via Air Canada Aeroplan, and economy starts at 30,000. Air India flies PNQ–DEL (Star feed). No oneworld and no SkyTeam member touches Pune, so oneworld programs are omitted rather than routed through a flight that does not exist. Programs whose alliance does not touch Pune are omitted, not routed through a flight that does not exist.

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Economy

The play · economy

Air Canada Aeroplan

Air India via DEL (PNQ–DEL–MLE) — Delhi–Malé cancelled 1-Jun–31-Aug-2026, resumes 1-Sep-2026, Star Alliance partner award

30,000 pts
surcharge not published
₹30,000 all-in at house ₹

Which card mints this?

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Program Metal / routing Points Surcharge All-in ₹ vs play
Air Canada Aeroplan the play Air India via DEL (PNQ–DEL–MLE) — Delhi–Malé cancelled 1-Jun–31-Aug-2026, resumes 1-Sep-2026, Star Alliance partner award 30,000 — ₹30,000 the play
Air India Maharaja Points Air India via DEL (PNQ–DEL–MLE) — Delhi–Malé cancelled 1-Jun–31-Aug-2026, resumes 1-Sep-2026, all-Air-India metal ~10,000 est. — ₹8,000 0.3×

Business

The play · business

Air Canada Aeroplan

Air India via DEL (PNQ–DEL–MLE) — Delhi–Malé cancelled 1-Jun–31-Aug-2026, resumes 1-Sep-2026, Star Alliance partner award

40,000 pts
surcharge not published
₹40,000 all-in at house ₹

Which card mints this?

+7 more ways in — the full funnel, ratios and ₹/mile side by side →

Program Metal / routing Points Surcharge All-in ₹ vs play
Air Canada Aeroplan the play Air India via DEL (PNQ–DEL–MLE) — Delhi–Malé cancelled 1-Jun–31-Aug-2026, resumes 1-Sep-2026, Star Alliance partner award 40,000 — ₹40,000 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. That surcharge is the airline's own cash charge on an award — YQ, as the notes below call it — and it is not the fuel-surcharge waiver your credit card advertises: that one hands back a hundred rupees or two at a petrol pump, this one runs to tens of thousands and decides whether the award is worth taking at all. “Dynamic” and estimated (~… est.) rows never compete for the play — the crown is always a verified, bookable price. Feed-ins come from the same transfer data as the optimizer, multi-hop chains included.

Chart-priced, not live seats. These prices are read off each programme’s published award chart and valued at our own house ₹/point. 37% of the 39,855 priced options on the board are stated estimates for programmes that publish no chart; they are marked ~ est. and never crowned the play. Nobody here can see whether a seat exists on your date — confirm the space with the programme before you transfer. Points that leave your issuer do not come back.

The cash on top of the miles. Air India Maharaja Points makes you liable for one if the operating airline levies it, without saying whether it does. Air Canada Aeroplan states it adds none on its own metal. Government taxes and airport charges are payable in every case. Almost no programme publishes the amount, so the desk carries each one’s policy in its own words — on its programme hub — rather than a number nobody published.

Row by row

3 options · 2 sourced charts
Economy

Air Canada Aeroplan

the play 30,000 pts

Air India via DEL (PNQ–DEL–MLE) — Delhi–Malé cancelled 1-Jun–31-Aug-2026, resumes 1-Sep-2026, Star Alliance partner award

Air India Star Alliance

Aeroplan charges TOTAL DISTANCE FLOWN, so this row is banded on the realistic PNQ–DEL–MLE routing (3,891 km / 2,418 mi) rather than the 1,600 km great circle: Delhi is Air India's only gateway to Malé, so the Star itinerary out of Pune connects there. A longer routing can bump the band up one step. Delhi–Malé is cancelled 1 Jun – 31 Aug 2026 and resumes 1 Sep 2026 (AeroRoutes, 12-May-2026), bookable ahead today.

Feed it: 15,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 30,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 75,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)

as of aircanada.com
Economy

Air India Maharaja Points

~10,000 pts est.

Air India via DEL (PNQ–DEL–MLE) — Delhi–Malé cancelled 1-Jun–31-Aug-2026, resumes 1-Sep-2026, all-Air-India metal

Air India Star Alliance

The April-2026 Maharaja Club chart is a FLAT DESTINATION-REGION tier, not distance — so Pune pays exactly what Delhi pays to Malé, provided both legs stay on Air India Group metal (PNQ–DEL domestic, then DEL–MLE). Delhi is the only Air India gateway to Malé — Mumbai's airport table carries no Malé under Air India — and that daily is cancelled 1 Jun – 31 Aug 2026, resuming 1 Sep 2026 (AeroRoutes, 12-May-2026), bookable ahead today.

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: 10,000 IndusInd Reward Points (1:1) · 5,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 10,000 ICICI Reward Points (1:1)

as of airindia.com
Business

Air Canada Aeroplan

the play 40,000 pts

Air India via DEL (PNQ–DEL–MLE) — Delhi–Malé cancelled 1-Jun–31-Aug-2026, resumes 1-Sep-2026, Star Alliance partner award

Air India Star Alliance

Aeroplan charges TOTAL DISTANCE FLOWN, so this row is banded on the realistic PNQ–DEL–MLE routing (3,891 km / 2,418 mi) rather than the 1,600 km great circle: Delhi is Air India's only gateway to Malé, so the Star itinerary out of Pune connects there. A longer routing can bump the band up one step. Delhi–Malé is cancelled 1 Jun – 31 Aug 2026 and resumes 1 Sep 2026 (AeroRoutes, 12-May-2026), bookable ahead today.

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

as of aircanada.com

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