Singapore Airlines Star Alliance
Singapore Airlines nonstop Singapore→Malé on own metal, priced off the published zone chart.
Feed it: 19,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 9,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 38,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1)
Award flight · one-way
Singapore → Malé on points: 30 options, the board now symmetric with Malé → Singapore. Award charts price the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so every program that prices the reverse heading is mirrored here — a mirror still flagged as an estimate never takes the crown. The cheapest verified business seat on the board is 40,000 via American Airlines AAdvantage, and economy starts at 19,000. 14 rows are first-hand chart reads.
The play · economy
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| Program | Metal / routing | Points | Surcharge | All-in ₹ | vs play |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer the play | Singapore Airlines own metal from SIN, zone Saver award (3,397 km nonstop) | 19,000 | — | ₹20,900 | the play |
| IndiGo BluChip | IndiGo via BLR (one stop) — BluChip, dynamic (revenue-priced) | ~20,000 est. | — | ₹10,000 | 0.5× |
| Air China PhoenixMiles | Star Alliance metal (SQ partner metal — CA itself flies only Delhi from India), India ⇄ Southeast Asia — Air China PhoenixMiles | ~15,000 est. | — | ₹13,500 | 0.6× |
| Malaysia Airlines Enrich | Malaysia Airlines via KUL (one stop) — revenue-based Enrich pricing | ~18,750 est. | — | ₹15,000 | 0.7× |
| Avios (BA / Qatar / Finnair) | SriLankan via CMB (one stop, oneworld) — Avios partner chart, per-segment | ~19,000 est. | — | ₹19,000 | 0.9× |
| Air France-KLM Flying Blue | Malaysia Airlines via KUL (SIN–KUL–MLE) — Flying Blue partner award (dynamic) | ~20,000 est. | — | ₹20,000 | 1.0× |
| United MileagePlus | Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ Southeast Asia — United MileagePlus | ~20,000 est. | — | ₹20,000 | 1.0× |
| Avianca LifeMiles | Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ Southeast Asia — Avianca LifeMiles | ~20,000 est. | — | ₹20,000 | 1.0× |
| Air Canada Aeroplan | Star Alliance partner metal, Aeroplan distance-band award (3,397 km) | 25,000 | — | ₹25,000 | 1.2× |
| EVA Air Infinity MileageLands | Star Alliance metal (SQ — EVA itself serves no Indian city; the award rides partner metal), India ⇄ Southeast Asia — Air India dropped 1-Aug-2026: its only Malé service is Delhi–Malé, so the Air India build is SIN–DEL–MLE, 6,893 km for a 3,397 km hop — EVA Infinity MileageLands | 25,000 | — | ₹25,000 | 1.2× |
| American Airlines AAdvantage | oneworld partner metal, AAdvantage region award — or Malaysia Airlines via KUL, or SriLankan Airlines via CMB | 25,000 | — | ₹25,000 | 1.2× |
| Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards | Malaysia Airlines via KUL (oneworld partner award), India ⇄ Southeast Asia — Alaska Atmos | ~25,000 est. | — | ₹25,000 | 1.2× |
| Aegean Miles+Bonus | Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ Southeast Asia — Aegean Miles+Bonus | 30,000 | — | ₹30,000 | 1.4× |
| Copa Airlines ConnectMiles | Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ Southeast Asia — Copa ConnectMiles (fixed region chart) | 35,000 | — | ₹35,000 | 1.7× |
| TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go | Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ Southeast Asia — TAP Miles&Go | ~50,000 est. | — | ₹40,000 | 1.9× |
The play · business
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| Program | Metal / routing | Points | Surcharge | All-in ₹ | vs play |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines AAdvantage the play | oneworld partner metal, AAdvantage region award — or Malaysia Airlines via KUL, or SriLankan Airlines via CMB | 40,000 | — | ₹40,000 | the play |
| Air China PhoenixMiles | Star Alliance metal (SQ partner metal — CA itself flies only Delhi from India), India ⇄ Southeast Asia — Air China PhoenixMiles | ~27,000 est. | — | ₹24,300 | 0.6× |
| Avianca LifeMiles | Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ Southeast Asia — Avianca LifeMiles | ~37,000 est. | — | ₹37,000 | 0.9× |
| Avios (BA / Qatar / Finnair) | SriLankan business via CMB (one stop, oneworld) — Avios partner chart, per-segment | ~38,500 est. | — | ₹38,500 | 1.0× |
| United MileagePlus | Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ Southeast Asia — United MileagePlus | ~40,000 est. | — | ₹40,000 | 1.0× |
| Air France-KLM Flying Blue | Malaysia Airlines via KUL (SIN–KUL–MLE) — Flying Blue partner award (dynamic) | ~41,500 est. | — | ₹41,500 | 1.0× |
| EVA Air Infinity MileageLands | Star Alliance metal (SQ — EVA itself serves no Indian city; the award rides partner metal), India ⇄ Southeast Asia — Air India dropped 1-Aug-2026: its only Malé service is Delhi–Malé, so the Air India build is SIN–DEL–MLE, 6,893 km for a 3,397 km hop — EVA Infinity MileageLands | 42,500 | — | ₹42,500 | 1.1× |
| Aegean Miles+Bonus | Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ Southeast Asia — Aegean Miles+Bonus | 45,000 | — | ₹45,000 | 1.1× |
| Air Canada Aeroplan | Star Alliance partner metal, Aeroplan distance-band award (3,397 km) | 47,500 | — | ₹47,500 | 1.2× |
| Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer | Singapore Airlines own metal from SIN, zone Saver award (3,397 km nonstop) | 45,000 | — | ₹49,500 | 1.2× |
| Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards | Malaysia Airlines via KUL (oneworld partner award), India ⇄ Southeast Asia — Alaska Atmos | ~50,000 est. | — | ₹50,000 | 1.3× |
| TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go | Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ Southeast Asia — TAP Miles&Go | ~70,000 est. | — | ₹56,000 | 1.4× |
| Copa Airlines ConnectMiles | Star Alliance partner metal, India ⇄ Southeast Asia — Copa ConnectMiles (fixed region chart) | 60,000 | — | ₹60,000 | 1.5× |
The play · first
Which card mints this?
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| Program | Metal / routing | Points | Surcharge | All-in ₹ | vs play |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Airlines AAdvantage the play | oneworld partner metal, AAdvantage region award — or Malaysia Airlines via KUL, or SriLankan Airlines via CMB | 50,000 | — | ₹50,000 | the play |
| Air Canada Aeroplan | Star Alliance partner metal, Aeroplan distance-band award (3,397 km) | 55,000 | — | ₹55,000 | 1.1× |
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. Avios (BA / Qatar / Finnair) and Air France-KLM Flying Blue state that a carrier-imposed surcharge is charged on an award. Singapore Airlines KrisFlyer, United MileagePlus, American Airlines AAdvantage and Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards make 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. 8 other programmes priced here publish nothing the desk could read.
Open this corridor in British Airways’ Flight Finder → It fills in your search — SIN to MLE on 29/12/2026, which you change there. It does not show award space, and no link on this page can. It is the only carrier handoff the desk ships: Qatar returns CASH fares under award-looking parameters, Aeroplan discards them behind a login, KrisFlyer’s search has no URL to link to, and the Flying Blue template in circulation has never been verified.
Singapore Airlines Star Alliance
Singapore Airlines nonstop Singapore→Malé on own metal, priced off the published zone chart.
Feed it: 19,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 9,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 38,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1)
IndiGo
IndiGo BluChip has no award chart at all — redemptions track the live fare at a dynamic ₹0.40–0.60 per BluChip, minimum 500 points, taxes cash-only, own metal only with no partners. It is a rupee offset wearing points clothing, not a chart price. Mirrored from mle-sin: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 20,000 is the mle-sin number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of mle-sin — IndiGo BluChip prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the mle-sin economy cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. IndiGo BluChip is revenue-linked ~Rs0.50/pt; ~= typical one-way IndiGo economy fare / Rs0.50 for ~2,111 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))
Singapore Airlines 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 mle-sin: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 15,000 is the mle-sin number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of mle-sin — Air China PhoenixMiles prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the mle-sin 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: 18,750 HSBC Reward Points (1.25:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 45,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 90,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
Malaysia Airlines oneworld
Enrich publishes no usable public award matrix for this pair, so the level is inferred from the nearest Malaysia Airlines anchors; every routing runs through the Kuala Lumpur hub. No Indian card and no partner hop feeds Enrich in our data, which makes it a benchmark rather than a wallet-reachable road. Mirrored from mle-sin: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 18,750 is the mle-sin number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of mle-sin — Malaysia Airlines Enrich prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the mle-sin economy cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. Malaysia Enrich is revenue-linked ~Rs0.80/pt; ~= typical one-way MH economy fare / Rs0.80 for ~2,111 mi; moves with the live fare. MH own-metal Value redemptions only.
Feed it: 104,167 Amex Membership Rewards (5.56:1 via Hilton Honors) · 234,375 Axis EDGE Reward Points (12.5:1 via IHG One Rewards) · 93,750 HDFC Reward Points (5:1 via IHG One Rewards)
SriLankan Airlines oneworld
Avios prices partner awards PER SEGMENT off the published distance-zone table shared by British Airways, Qatar, Iberia, Finnair and Aer Lingus, so a connecting build is a sum of bands rather than one cell, and the December-2025 reset moved those bands. One balance spends across all five programmes; BA and Iberia metal carry the heavy carrier-imposed surcharges. Mirrored from mle-sin: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 19,000 is the mle-sin number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of mle-sin — Avios (BA / Qatar / Finnair) prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the mle-sin economy cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.
Feed it: 19,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 38,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1) · 19,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)
Malaysia Airlines oneworld
Flying Blue has no award chart, but its partner awards are additive per segment, so this routing bands to 20,000 economy (SIN–KUL 296 km → 5,000 + KUL–MLE 3,132 km → 15,000 = 20,000 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 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: SIN–KUL 296 km → 5,000 + KUL–MLE 3,132 km → 15,000 = 20,000 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. BAND CAVEAT: at least one segment here falls in the <=1,200 km band, still the widest residual on the table. It was re-fitted on 2026-08-02 as the geometric mean of its own published quotes and now reads 5,000 economy / 11,500 business, up from 4,000 / 8,000 — an unfitted rung that ran about 21% and 31% low. The re-fit removes the bias, not the spread: published one-way business quotes inside the band still run 6,100 (Muscat–Dubai) to 19,500 (Toronto–New York), 3.2x apart, and segment length does not explain the gap. Treat the short-hop component as the coarsest number on this row.
Feed it: 20,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 10,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 20,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)
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 mle-sin: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 20,000 is the mle-sin number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of mle-sin — United MileagePlus prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the mle-sin economy cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. United MileagePlus Saver partner level, India ⇄ Southeast Asia 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: 10,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 50,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2) · 60,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy)
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 mle-sin: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 20,000 is the mle-sin number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of mle-sin — Avianca LifeMiles prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the mle-sin 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: 60,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 120,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 40,000 HDFC Reward Points (2:1)
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: 12,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 25,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 62,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
Singapore Airlines 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: 25,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 166,667 Amex Membership Rewards (6.67:1 via Hilton Honors) · 625,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (25:1 via Hilton Honors)
Malaysia AirlinesSriLankan Airlines oneworld
AAdvantage prices partner awards on a fixed region-to-region chart. A valid oneworld routing is assumed.
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 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (2:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
Malaysia AirlinesSriLankan 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 mle-sin: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 25,000 is the mle-sin number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of mle-sin — Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the mle-sin economy cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.
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)
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 SIN → MLE and MLE → SIN 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)
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 mle-sin, 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
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 mle-sin: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 50,000 is the mle-sin number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of mle-sin — TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the mle-sin 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)
Malaysia 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)
Singapore Airlines 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 mle-sin: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 27,000 is the mle-sin number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of mle-sin — Air China PhoenixMiles prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the mle-sin 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: 66,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.44:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 132,000 RBL Reward Points (4.89:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 33,750 HSBC Reward Points (1.25:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL))
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 mle-sin: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 37,000 is the mle-sin number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of mle-sin — Avianca LifeMiles prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the mle-sin 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: 111,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 222,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy) · 74,000 HDFC Reward Points (2:1)
SriLankan Airlines oneworld
Avios prices partner awards PER SEGMENT off the published distance-zone table shared by British Airways, Qatar, Iberia, Finnair and Aer Lingus, so a connecting build is a sum of bands rather than one cell, and the December-2025 reset moved those bands. One balance spends across all five programmes; BA and Iberia metal carry the heavy carrier-imposed surcharges. Mirrored from mle-sin: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 38,500 is the mle-sin number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of mle-sin — Avios (BA / Qatar / Finnair) prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the mle-sin business cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.
Feed it: 38,500 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 77,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1) · 38,500 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)
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 mle-sin: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 40,000 is the mle-sin number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of mle-sin — United MileagePlus prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the mle-sin business cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction. United MileagePlus Saver partner level, India ⇄ Southeast Asia 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: 20,000 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 100,000 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2) · 90,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.25:1 via Marriott Bonvoy)
Malaysia Airlines oneworld
Flying Blue has no award chart, but its partner awards are additive per segment, so this routing bands to 41,500 business (SIN–KUL 296 km → 11,500 + KUL–MLE 3,132 km → 30,000 = 41,500 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: SIN–KUL 296 km → 11,500 + KUL–MLE 3,132 km → 30,000 = 41,500 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. BAND CAVEAT: at least one segment here falls in the <=1,200 km band, still the widest residual on the table. It was re-fitted on 2026-08-02 as the geometric mean of its own published quotes and now reads 5,000 economy / 11,500 business, up from 4,000 / 8,000 — an unfitted rung that ran about 21% and 31% low. The re-fit removes the bias, not the spread: published one-way business quotes inside the band still run 6,100 (Muscat–Dubai) to 19,500 (Toronto–New York), 3.2x apart, and segment length does not explain the gap. Treat the short-hop component as the coarsest number on this row.
Feed it: 41,500 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 20,750 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 41,500 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)
Singapore Airlines 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: 42,500 HSBC Reward Points (1:1) · 283,334 Amex Membership Rewards (6.67:1 via Hilton Honors) · 1,062,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (25:1 via Hilton Honors)
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 SIN → MLE and MLE → SIN 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
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: 23,750 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 47,500 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 118,750 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
Singapore Airlines Star Alliance
Singapore Airlines nonstop Singapore→Malé on own metal, priced off the published zone chart.
Feed it: 45,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 22,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 90,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2:1)
Malaysia AirlinesSriLankan 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 mle-sin: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 50,000 is the mle-sin number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of mle-sin — Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the mle-sin business cell one-for-one; the desk has not separately re-read the chart for this direction.
Feed it: 120,000 Amex Membership Rewards (2.4:1 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
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 mle-sin: the chart cell is the same in either direction, so 70,000 is the mle-sin number read back the other way — an estimate until this direction is re-read, and never crowned THE PLAY.
Estimate Reverse of mle-sin — TAP Air Portugal Miles&Go prices the zone pair or the distance band, not the direction, so this mirrors the mle-sin 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)
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 60,000 is the same published cell as mle-sin, 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)
Malaysia 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
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: 27,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 55,000 SBI Travel Credits (1:1) · 137,500 Axis EDGE Reward Points (5:2)
Flying back? Malé to Singapore on points (MLE–SIN). Or take the whole region: every corridor we price into South Asia — 380 of them. Or pick any two hubs — 2,450 corridors priced.