Economy the play 9,200 pts Qantas own metal from SYD, distance-band award (705 km, single-segment)
Qantas oneworld
Qantas nonstop Sydney→Melbourne on own metal. Classic Rewards are points + taxes, fees and carrier charges. Qantas does not publish a surcharge table, so no numeric value is asserted. Order of magnitude on Qantas-operated international one-ways: roughly A$120-250 in economy and A$350-800 in premium cabins; domestic/trans-Tasman is far lower. Treat as indicative, not sourced. A connecting itinerary adds segments and can cost more.
Feed it: 7,360 HSBC Reward Points (1:1.25 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 4,600 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 9,200 SBI Travel Credits (1:1)
Qantas nonstop — Flying Blue partner award (dynamic)
Qantas oneworld
Flying Blue has no award chart, but its partner awards are additive per segment, so this routing bands to 5,000 economy (SYD–MEL 705 km → 5,000 = 5,000 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Air datapoints run US$190–390 one-way — and Flying Blue publishes no per-route table, so this row's cash side stays unpublished.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 Qantas (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: SYD–MEL 705 km → 5,000 = 5,000 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: 5,000 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 2,500 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 5,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)
Virgin Australia own metal from SYD, region award
Virgin Australia
Virgin Australia own-metal Sydney→Melbourne. Reward Seats are points + taxes, fees and carrier charges. Virgin Australia does not levy a fuel surcharge on its own-metal domestic/short-haul Reward Seats; expect roughly A$25-60 domestic and A$60-120 trans-Tasman one-way in taxes. (The published USD40/65 economy and USD120/200 business carrier charges apply to PARTNER redemptions such as Singapore Airlines, not to Virgin Australia metal.) A valid Virgin Australia routing is assumed.
Estimate Dynamic/unpublished-chart program — estimate is the typical one-way economy level Sydney→Melbourne (range 5.9k-12.9k); not a fixed chart price, never THE PLAY.
Feed it: 8,800 HSBC Reward Points (1:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 26,400 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 52,800 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
oneworld partner metal, AAdvantage region award
oneworld
AAdvantage prices partner awards on a fixed region-to-region chart. A valid oneworld routing is assumed.
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 RBL Reward Points (Nova/Lumière) (2:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
Business the play 19,300 pts Qantas own metal from SYD, distance-band award (705 km, single-segment)
Qantas oneworld
Qantas nonstop Sydney→Melbourne on own metal. Classic Rewards are points + taxes, fees and carrier charges. Qantas does not publish a surcharge table, so no numeric value is asserted. Order of magnitude on Qantas-operated international one-ways: roughly A$120-250 in economy and A$350-800 in premium cabins; domestic/trans-Tasman is far lower. Treat as indicative, not sourced. A connecting itinerary adds segments and can cost more.
Feed it: 15,440 HSBC Reward Points (1:1.25 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 9,650 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 19,300 SBI Travel Credits (1:1)
Business ~11,500 pts est. Qantas nonstop — Flying Blue partner award (dynamic)
Qantas oneworld
Flying Blue has no award chart, but its partner awards are additive per segment, so this routing bands to 11,500 business (SYD–MEL 705 km → 11,500 = 11,500 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 Qantas (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: SYD–MEL 705 km → 11,500 = 11,500 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: 11,500 HDFC Reward Points (1:1) · 5,750 Axis EDGE Miles (1:2) · 11,500 HSBC Reward Points (1:1)
Business ~17,000 pts est. Virgin Australia own metal from SYD, region award
Virgin Australia
Virgin Australia own-metal Sydney→Melbourne. Reward Seats are points + taxes, fees and carrier charges. Virgin Australia does not levy a fuel surcharge on its own-metal domestic/short-haul Reward Seats; expect roughly A$25-60 domestic and A$60-120 trans-Tasman one-way in taxes. (The published USD40/65 economy and USD120/200 business carrier charges apply to PARTNER redemptions such as Singapore Airlines, not to Virgin Australia metal.) A valid Virgin Australia routing is assumed.
Estimate Dynamic/unpublished-chart program — estimate is the typical one-way business level Sydney→Melbourne (range 14k-22k); not a fixed chart price, never THE PLAY.
Feed it: 17,000 HSBC Reward Points (1:1 via Accor Live Limitless (ALL)) · 51,000 Amex Membership Rewards (3:1 via Marriott Bonvoy) · 102,000 RBL Reward Points (6:1 via Club ITC → Marriott Bonvoy)
oneworld partner metal, AAdvantage region award
oneworld
AAdvantage prices partner awards on a fixed region-to-region chart. A valid oneworld routing is assumed.
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)