Club Vistara points can offer an excellent value at times. Definitely more than using your credit card reward points to book flights. If only Vistara flew to as many cities as Indigo.
However, if you frequently fly Vistara and have enough credit card points stacked up, this might be a good time to transfer them.
Club Vistara Points Fest 2023
Vistara is offering a 30% bonus on transferring your bank or hotel reward points to Club Vistara.
You can earn as much as 150,000 bonus Club Vistara(CV) points per transfer partner. So if you have tonnes of reward points with 2 different banks, you have an opportunity to earn 300,000 bonus points and so on.
There are 2 important conditions you should be conscious of.
- You need to register for the promotion first.
- The offer is applicable only on the first transaction with each Points Transfer bank during the offer period. Example: if you transfer 100,000 HDFC Reward Points in first transaction and 50,000 HDFC Reward Points in the second transaction, you will be eligible for the bonus CV Points only on the First transaction of 100,000 CV Points.
The offer is applicable only if registrations and points transfer is completed by March 31st, 2023.
Tip: Don’t wait until the last minute. Most banks approve these transactions manually and you may just miss the date. I would say keep a buffer of 7–10 days at the minimum.
Don’t forget the screenshot
The offer terms explicitly mention taking a screenshot of the registration confirmation. If Vistara is not confident about their systems, you shouldn’t be either.
Take a screenshot of the page you are entering your CV ID and captcha on, and of the confirmation page. You may need it later to prove that you did register for the offer.
Vistara points transfer partners
Here are the partners you can transfer points from to your Club Vistara account.
- American Express Membership Rewards®
- Axis eDGE Rewards
- Club ITC Green Points Program
- HDFC Rewards Program
- IndusInd Bank Rewards Program
- Standard Chartered UAE 360 Rewards Program
- YES BANK Credit Card Rewards
- First Abu Dhabi Bank, UAE – FAB Program
- AU Bank Rewardz
- HSBC Credit Card Rewards Program
Club ITC is the only hotel reward program on the list.
The number of points or ‘the conversion ratio’ depends on the card you are holding with the partner bank. As one would expect, premium cards typically get better value than other cards.
The Air India worry
Vistara has already announced that they would be sunsetting the Vistara brand at some point and merging it with Air India.
At that point, Club Vistara will most likely merge with Air India’s Flying Returns. However, you never know the value of points you would get.
Keep this in mind while transferring your points. Rumors are that the merger will be completed within a year. But with such complex processes, you never know.
