Air India’s Award Chart: I’m Speechless

Well, it’s official. The award for the world’s most bizarre airline loyalty program award chart goes to… Air India! And that doesn’t even have anything to do with their redemption rates.

You have to see Air India’s award chart to believe it:

Air India Flying Returns Award Chart

Like, I actually can’t concentrate enough to figure out how much something should cost.

Is this amazing, amazing, or amazing? Like, can you imagine how much time someone spent coming up with this design, and the fact that they finished designing the award chart and said “that looks great.” Then they showed it to their boss, and their boss was like “job well done.”

It’s not just the color vomit as such that makes this so special, but when you add in the faded Xs and the ridiculously complicated structure, this is an award chart in a league of its own… by some definition.

(Tip of the hat to my colleagues Jimmy & Jordan at PointsPros)

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Redneck Guest

This is why americans are so simple and no brain. These people in india can figure them out easly on this chart but not you. Instead of complain this chart, think yourself how idiot yor are. This is why Indians are working on high salary IT job because you cant do. Answer this question 28+ 34+ 12 without a calculator. Probably Indian people can answer it in 2 secounds as I can do.

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MH Diamond

Agree with Paolo and Marco. Sure, it doesn’t look great. But the content, and rules themselves are fine, so it’s not as big a deal as made out in the headline. And the article body is lacking. A post about nothing really.

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Jo145 Member

@Paolo - what generation are we talking about? I'm 24.

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Murali Guest

Just read carefully it is not as difficult as it looks, yes and the conditions could have been written as a footnote to make it look less complicated

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Venky v Guest

I have about 65000 expired AI miles which i could reactivate @ 0.60 inr/mile (about 0.8 cent/mile) After one look at the mileage chart, I decided to run away.....beyond human comprehension in any language!!!! I think AI sponsored the person for free Micro$oft Advanced Excel with Micros (pun intended) training and it shows!!!

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