How many Axis Atlas miles can go to Air India a year?

You can move 30,000 EDGE Miles a year from the Axis Atlas to Air India Maharaja Club, and not one more. Air India is in the card’s Group A, and 30,000 is the limit for the whole group, shared with 17 other partners. At Air India’s 1:2 ratio, that is 60,000 Maharaja points in a year, however many EDGE Miles the account holds.

How the two groups work

Axis splits the Atlas’s transfer partners into two groups, and each group has its own yearly limit. Group A takes at most 30,000 EDGE Miles. Group B takes at most 1,20,000. Together they add up to the overall limit of 1,50,000 EDGE Miles a year that can leave the account as partner points.

Group A holds most of the airline programmes people ask about: Air India Maharaja Club, Singapore KrisFlyer, British Airways Avios, Qatar Airways Avios, Air France-KLM Flying Blue, Qantas, Etihad Guest, Turkish Miles&Smiles, United MileagePlus, Air Canada Aeroplan, Cathay Asia Miles, Finnair Plus, JAL Mileage Bank, Thai Royal Orchid Plus, Ethiopian ShebaMiles and Vietnam Airlines Lotusmiles. Two hotel programmes are in it as well, Accor ALL and Wyndham Rewards.

Group B has AirAsia Rewards, IndiGo BluChip, Lufthansa Miles & More and SpiceJet SpiceClub on the airline side, and Hilton Honors, IHG One Rewards, Radisson Rewards, Orchid Rewards and The Postcard Sunshine Club among hotels.

The two limits don’t feed each other. If you use nothing in Group B, Group A still stops at 30,000. Group B’s unused room can’t be moved across.

Air India used to be in the larger group

Air India Maharaja Club, Flying Blue and Qantas were Group B partners until September 2026, when Axis moved all three into Group A. Before the move, Air India shared the 1,20,000 limit. Now it shares 30,000 with KrisFlyer, both Avios programmes, Etihad and the rest, so a plan built on last year’s limits runs out at a quarter of the size.

What 30,000 EDGE Miles buys at each ratio

Most partners, Air India included, convert at 1:2, so one EDGE Mile becomes two partner points. The full Group A allowance sent to Air India becomes 60,000 Maharaja points.

Some Group A partners convert at 2:1 instead: Accor, British Airways, Cathay, Finnair, Qatar and Vietnam Airlines. The same 30,000 EDGE Miles sent to British Airways or Qatar become 15,000 Avios. The group limit counts EDGE Miles leaving the account, not points arriving, so a 2:1 partner uses up the same share of the allowance for a quarter of the points a 1:2 partner would give.

For Air India, the card’s own tip gives a sense of scale. Direct domestic sectors booked more than two weeks out run 2,500 to 7,000 points, and the same seat inside a week costs 14,000 or more. At the 7,000 end of the early-booking range, 60,000 points covers eight sectors. At 14,000, it covers four.

How much spend fills the allowance

At the travel rate of 5 EDGE Miles per ₹100, 30,000 EDGE Miles take ₹6,00,000 of direct airline, direct hotel or Travel EDGE spend. At the base rate of 2 per ₹100, they take ₹15,00,000. The travel rate itself stops after ₹2,00,000 of travel spend in a month, so a year of heavy travel usually earns more EDGE Miles than Group A alone can absorb.

Say you hold 50,000 EDGE Miles and want all of them in Air India. Only 30,000 can go; the other 20,000 either wait for the next calendar year or go to Group B. At a 1:2 Group B partner such as Hilton Honors, those 20,000 become 40,000 partner points. IndiGo BluChip converts at 2:1, so the same 20,000 give a quarter of that.

What the fine print adds

The limit runs by calendar year. It resets on 1 January, not on your card anniversary or statement date. A transfer in late December and another in early January count against two different years.

The limit applies per customer ID. The terms count transfers against the customer, not the card, so a second Atlas on the same customer ID does not open a second allowance.

Transfers are one way. Once EDGE Miles have become partner points, they don’t come back. The card’s tips also note that conversions run on the separate EDGE rewards portal, outside the main Axis app, and can take up to three working days to land. A transfer started inside a week of the flight you want can miss the seat.

The partner list also changes. Axis moved three airlines between groups in September 2026, and the same update brought Accor back and added Cathay and Lufthansa. Rates, ratios and limits are as of the date on this page, and Axis can change them.

What to check on your own account

Add up every transfer you made to a Group A partner since 1 January. Air India, KrisFlyer, Avios, Flying Blue and the rest all draw on the same 30,000. The EDGE rewards portal lists past conversions; the Atlas statement does not break them out by group.

Then check which group the partner you want is in today, not which group it was in when you last transferred. If it moved, the room you thought you had may already be used.

Last, look up the award before you convert. Transfers can’t be reversed, so convert the exact number of EDGE Miles an available seat needs.

The facts table under this guide is the Atlas’s catalog record, dated. Krediit tracks each transfer group’s remaining allowance for the year and shows it next to the partner before you convert.