SBI Card MILES drops Flying Blue and Etihad Guest from its transfer list, with no notice we can find
SBI Card's MILES rewards terms listed 18 airline partners in an August 2026 copy. The version dated 23 September lists 16: Air France-KLM Flying Blue and Etihad Guest are gone.
Two 1:1 airline routes have disappeared from SBI Card's MILES programme. We compared SBI's rewards terms as archived on 4 August 2026 with the live PDF, created on 23 September 2026. The older copy lists 18 airline partners. The current one lists 16, and neither Air France-KLM Flying Blue nor Etihad Guest appears anywhere in it.
| Airline programme | 4 Aug 2026 archived copy | Current terms (PDF created 23 Sep 2026) |
|---|---|---|
| Air France-KLM Flying Blue | 1:1 | Not listed |
| Etihad Guest | 1:1 | Not listed |
| Air Canada Aeroplan | 1:1 | 1:1 |
| British Airways Club | 1:1 | 1:1 |
| Cathay | 1:1 | 1:1 |
What we can and cannot say
- No announcement. SBI Card's customer notices page, checked on 1 November 2026, has nothing on either partner. The only Etihad item there is an older notice about Etihad Guest co-brand cards being phased out, which is a separate matter.
- No exact date. The dates above are when the documents were captured and created, not when transfers stopped. CardAdvisor's tracker, which spotted this first, narrows Etihad to between 4 and 13 August and treats 23 September as an inferred date for Flying Blue.
- Older guides may be out of date. Treat SBI's own document as the current answer.
SBI publishes one table for this rewards programme, and CardAdvisor reads it as covering MILES, MILES PRIME and MILES ELITE alike. None of the three is in our catalog yet, so this post links to no card page.
What to do
- Do not transfer on an old assumption. Before you plan an award around Flying Blue or Etihad, check the partner list in your SBI Card account. Treat any transfer as final.
- If you were saving for Flying Blue: look for another bank's route first. Axis, for one, lists it under its EDGE programme, and our transfer partners matrix shows the routes we have sourced.
- If Etihad was the plan: note that this follows Amex ending Etihad Guest transfers worldwide earlier this year, so the options from Indian cards are narrowing.
To see what your points are worth without these routes, use the points calculator.
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