Maharaja Club
Star Alliance · points · Annual qualifying period — points accumulate across the full year.
Elite tiers
| Tier | points required |
|---|---|
| Silver | 15,000 |
| Gold | 30,000 |
| Platinum | 45,000 |
Rolling 365-day window; qualification and retention thresholds are identical. Each tier requires a 30% Air India / Air India Express component (Silver 4,500 / Gold 9,000 / Platinum 13,500 TP). Flight alternative: 20/45/60 flights with minimum 4/8/12 on Air India. Gold (not just Platinum) grants Star Alliance Gold. Own-metal Tier Points are spend-based at a flat 6 per INR 100 at EVERY tier — the ladder accelerates only the award currency (Maharaja Points, 6/8/9/10 per INR 100 by tier) — and Air India does not publish whether the spend base excludes taxes. Partner Tier Points are published as a rule rather than a table: 1 Tier Point for every 2 Maharaja Points accrued on Star Alliance partners. Its 26 partner tables are Maharaja (award) Points, and every partner figure here is one of those halved. Unlisted booking classes earn nothing — the chart is exhaustive by its own statement — and SAS earns nothing at all since leaving Star Alliance in August 2024. Three partners are deliberately absent: Air China, because Air India prints Air New Zealand’s row under it word for word; Shenzhen and ITA, because their columns are shifted a place left so business letters appear under First. Those three show an unknown rate rather than a misread one. Verified against airindia.com, Aug 2026.
Earning reference
- Booking-class earning rates →Full table: every booking class × carrier combination with the earning rate and rule type.