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Axis Bank has updated the transfer partner table on its Travel EDGE platform. Accor is back after being removed in April. Cathay Pacific Asia Miles, Hilton Honors and Lufthansa Miles & More have joined, while Club ITC has been removed.
The biggest change, though, is to the partner groups. Flying Blue, Air India Maharaja Club and Qantas Frequent Flyer have moved from Group B to Group A. Their conversion ratios are unchanged, but Group A has a much lower annual transfer limit. For an Axis Atlas cardholder, the maximum that can be transferred to Air India in a calendar year falls from 1,20,000 EDGE Miles to 30,000 EDGE Miles, equivalent to 2,40,000 and 60,000 Maharaja Points respectively at the existing 1:2 ratio.
Who joined, left and moved?
Group A now has 18 partners and Group B has nine. In the previous table, the split was 13 and 11.
Partner | Before | Now |
|---|---|---|
Flying Blue | Group B | Group A |
Air India Maharaja Club | Group B | Group A |
Qantas Frequent Flyer | Group B | Group A |
Accor Live Limitless | Not a partner | Group A |
Cathay Pacific Asia Miles | Not a partner | Group A |
Hilton Honors | Not a partner | Group B |
Lufthansa Miles & More | Not a partner | Group B |
Club ITC | Group B | Removed |
Other partners remain in their existing groups. IndiGo BluChip, added in June, remains in Group B.
Group A has one-fourth the transfer allowance of Group B
Axis caps the number of EDGE Reward Points or EDGE Miles a customer can transfer in a calendar year. The Group A and Group B limits are shared across all partners in their respective groups. On every card in the table, the Group A allowance is one-fourth of the Group B allowance.
Card | Overall annual cap | Group A | Group B |
|---|---|---|---|
Burgundy Private The One Metal | 15,00,000 | 3,00,000 | 12,00,000 |
Magnus for Burgundy | 10,00,000 | 2,00,000 | 8,00,000 |
Olympus | 7,50,000 | 1,50,000 | 6,00,000 |
Magnus, Reserve, Select, Privilege, Rewards, Horizon, IOCL Premium and other cards | 5,00,000 | 1,00,000 | 4,00,000 |
Atlas | 1,50,000 | 30,000 | 1,20,000 |
The limits run from 1 January to 31 December. They are not per partner: every transfer to any of the 18 Group A programmes uses the same Group A allowance.
What the move means for different cards
The transfer ratios to Air India, Flying Blue and Qantas have not changed. Moving these programmes into Group A still cuts the maximum amount a cardholder can send to them by 75%, assuming the cardholder uses the entire group allowance for one partner.
Air India illustrates the impact:
Card | Transfer ratio to Air India | Maximum partner points before | Maximum partner points now |
|---|---|---|---|
Atlas | 1 EDGE Mile : 2 Maharaja Points | 2,40,000 | 60,000 |
Reserve, Magnus | 5 EDGE Reward Points : 2 Maharaja Points | 1,60,000 | 40,000 |
Olympus | 1 EDGE Mile : 4 Maharaja Points | 24,00,000 | 6,00,000 |
An Atlas holder could previously transfer up to 1,20,000 EDGE Miles to Air India at 1:2 and receive 2,40,000 Maharaja Points. The Group A cap now limits that transfer to 30,000 EDGE Miles and 60,000 Maharaja Points. Any transfers to other Group A partners, including Flying Blue and Qantas, reduce the allowance available for Air India.
Accor returns at a much lower ratio for Atlas
Accor Live Limitless (ALL) was removed from the partner table in April. It has returned in Group A, but the new conversion ratio is lower for several cards.
Card | Until April 2026 | Now |
|---|---|---|
Burgundy Private The One Metal | 5:4 | 5:4 |
Magnus for Burgundy | 5:4 | 5:2 |
Reserve, Magnus | 5:2 | 5:1 |
Select, Privilege, Rewards | 10:1 | 10:1 |
Olympus | 1:4 | 1:2 |
Atlas | 1:2 | 2:1 |
Horizon | 1:1 | 2:1 |
Other eligible credit and debit cards | 20:1 | 10:1 |
Ratios are shown as Axis EDGE Reward Points or EDGE Miles : ALL Reward points.
Atlas sees the sharpest reduction. One EDGE Mile previously converted into two ALL Reward points. It now takes two EDGE Miles to receive one ALL Reward point. For the same EDGE Miles transferred, that is 75% fewer ALL Reward points.
Burgundy Private The One Metal retains its 5:4 ratio. The catch-all category for other eligible credit and debit cards improves from 20:1 to 10:1.
Accor’s Axis Bank partner page still shows earlier ratios, including the old Atlas rate. The two official pages therefore disagree. Cardholders should check the ratio displayed on Travel EDGE before confirming a transfer.
Cathay, Hilton and Miles & More join the list
Cathay Pacific Asia Miles enters Group A on the lower ratio tier. Atlas transfers at 2:1, Reserve and Magnus at 5:1, and Olympus at 1:2. These are the same card-specific ratios listed for British Airways, Finnair, Qatar Airways Privilege Club and Vietnam Airlines Lotusmiles.
Hilton Honors and Lufthansa Miles & More enter Group B, where cardholders have a larger annual transfer allowance. For Atlas, Hilton transfers at 1:2 and Miles & More at 1:1. Olympus transfers to Hilton at 1:4.
Miles & More has an additional limit of 2,00,000 miles per calendar year, with a minimum of 3,000 miles per transfer. For an Atlas holder transferring only to Miles & More, the Group B cap applies first: 1,20,000 EDGE Miles at 1:1 would produce 1,20,000 Miles & More miles, below the partner-specific ceiling.
Burgundy Private remains the exception
Burgundy Private The One Metal transfers at 5:4 to every partner in the revised table, including Accor and Cathay. It also has a Group A allowance of 3,00,000 EDGE Reward Points, compared with 30,000 EDGE Miles for Atlas. Its conversion ratios are unaffected by the changes described above.
Why this matters
For cardholders who use Axis points for airline transfers, the group changes may matter more than the new partners. Air India, Flying Blue and Qantas keep their existing ratios, but all three now compete for the smaller Group A allowance.
Accor’s return restores an option that had been unavailable since April, though at a substantially lower ratio for Atlas and several other cards. Miles & More is a useful addition to Group B, subject to its own annual limit. Club ITC is no longer available for transfers.
For Atlas holders in particular, the change to Air India is straightforward: the maximum transfer at the existing 1:2 ratio has fallen from 1,20,000 to 30,000 EDGE Miles per calendar year. That limit must also be shared with every other Group A partner.
What cardholders should check before transferring
The caps reset on 1 January. If you transferred to Air India, Flying Blue or Qantas earlier this year while they were in Group B, Axis’s published terms do not say whether those transfers will now be counted against your Group A allowance. Check the available limit shown in your account before planning another transfer.
Axis generally applies the cap of the highest eligible card held by a customer, but its terms specify exceptions. Reserve and Atlas allowances are added because they use different rewards currencies. For someone holding both Atlas and Olympus, the higher Olympus cap applies to their combined EDGE Miles.
Customers can link one loyalty membership ID per partner at a time. Axis also specifies a waiting period when changing a linked ID, so confirm the correct account before initiating a transfer.
With no effective date stated for the revised table, cardholders should use the partner group, available allowance and conversion ratio shown on Travel EDGE at the time of transfer.
Source: Axis Bank Travel EDGE Terms and Conditions