Premium Economy is a new concept introduced in India by Air Vistara which is positioned between Economy & business class. Axis Vistara Signature Credit Card helps you to indulge in their premium services curated to provide Business class “like” of experience with their complimentary tickets based on milestone spends.
- Joining Fee: INR 3,000+GST
- Welcome Bonus: One Complimentary Premium Economy ticket
Axis Bank Vistara Signature Credit Card
Milestone benefits on Vistara Signature Credit Card:
When you spend certain # anywhere with your Axis bank vistara Signature credit card, you’re given with milestone benefits as below.
- Spend Rs.75,000 – 3,000 CV Points
- Spend Rs.1,50,000 – 1 Premium Economy Class ticket
- Spend Rs.3,00,000 – 1 Premium Economy Class ticket
- Spend Rs.4,50,000 – 1 Premium Economy Class ticket
- Also earn: 4 CV Points for every Rs.200 spent
Note that you need to pay extra Rs.1,000 or so as “taxes” to redeem these complimentary tickets. So, on spending about 4.5L, you’ll end up with
- 3 Premium Economy class tickets + 12,000 CV Points
- Tip: Use CV points for Upgrades to Business Class
(excludes joining fee/welcome bonus)
Now, what’s the value of it? For this, i took route BLR->DEL and here are the values
- Approx cost of 3 Revenue tickets: ~Rs.24,000
- Approx cost of 3 redemption’s: ~Rs.3,000
- Savings: ~Rs.21,000 (or less)
In other words, you get ~4.5% value back, as you spend 4.5L to save Rs.21,000. A very decent return i would say 🙂
Features of Axis Vistara Signature Card:
- CardExpert Rating: 4/5
- Reward rate: Upto 4.5% as complimentary tickets
- Complementary Airport lounge access: 2 Visits/quarter via Visa Lounge Access Program
- Fuel Surcharge Waiver: Nil
- Foreign Exchange Markup fee: 3.5% + Service Tax
- Renewal Fee Waiver: Nil
- Special Features: Club Vistara Silver Membership & Travel Insurance Protection, Discounted golf access
As the numbers speak, its delivers a far better value than Vistara Platinum Card. Note that you can get maximum value from the voucher with long distance flights. If you’re redeeming it on short distance flights, overall value you get back might go down to as low as 2% or even less.
I might consider applying for this card, though, connectivity is the major resistance for me. Got something to say? Share your thoughts in comments below.
The card has a complimentary free ticket on joning as well. So that makes it 4 free tickets on spends of 4,50,000. Plus those 12000 points mean 2 to 3 free tickets too.
Joining fee = Welcome bonus.
So i never used to consider it, unless its too high 🙂
Yes, points we can use for redemption too, but again we got to pay taxes. Though, that varies on one’s need
The card mentions that members get a CV Silver Class membership. The Vistara website mentions these benefits under various grades of membership (one of which is a Upgrade Voucher):
Does anyone know if these benefits are applicable to those getting the Silver Class membership via the credit card? In which case this is even more VFM
Yes the membership to the silver tier gives the benefits of upgrade which includes one class upgrade voucher and one lounge access voucher.
Does this card give reward points on insurance payments. I have some LIC Payments to pay and saw that there is no limit and gateway charges for Axis Bank cards on it payment gateway. I was wondering if there is some catch regarding earning CV points just like Amex cards doesn’t give reward points on insurance payments.
@Anuj
I have Axis Privilege, and what u saw on LIC website is true, (no gateway charges and no max limit of payment).
On my Axis Privilege, i get reward points for LIC payment, infact that was the main reason i took Axis Privilege.
I think Axis wont differentiate between Axis Privilege or Axis Vistara on LIC. So u can get reward points as well as save on gateway charges with Axis.
Iam also planning to hold in addition to Axis Privilege one more Axis Vistara Card.
Can someone also clarify if we get reward points for LIC payment made using Axis Vistara Card.
Got my Axis Vistara Signature approved today. Shortly would be able to give some more details.
A big thanks to @Sid and cardexpert.in in helping me make informed and right card choices.
@Sid
Renewal benefit of one Premium Economy ticket can also be added to the article, this makes the benefits and cost uniform over the years.
@Sid
BMS offer via Visa signature is also a small benefit which can be mentioned in main article. Infact it beats few ICICI gemstone cards too.
@Anuj
I would like to tell that we do get points for LIC payment through this card, and Club Vistara (CV) points are posted on T+2 day in my CV account.
I am holding this card and have crossed the 4.5L milestone of spends and was wondering if this card holds any value for spends after crossing the 4.5L milestone in terms of CV points?
Not much. I prefer to keep it away once the milestone targets are reached. Maybe you can use it once in a while for BMS offer 🙂
There is new milestone for this (and other variants of Axis vistara) card:
9,00,000 : 1 Premium Economy ticket**
**Eligibility for this milestone benefit will be considered only for card anniversary year beginning on or after 1st Nov, 2019.
6L and 12L for the platinum and infinite versrions.
Are the vouchers to be used only by card holder, or can family members too use them?
Vouchers can be used by family members and friend also
Lounge access – vouchers can be given to family or friends or anyone when they are travelling vistara from del T3
Seat redemption – you can add anyone as a nominee in your CV account and get the voucher redeemed for them against a seat. Same goes for point redemption too
Hi Sid, we are looking forward your hands on with Vistara Signature card…
Hi,
is there a renewal benefit with this card?
Yes you get the Biz Class ticket free on renewal. It is the same as applying for a fresh card.
Apologies you get a Premium Economy ticket.
How long is the validity of the CV silver status. Is it one year like for regalia or sbi prime card holders..
Yes the validity is for one year
Can someone share how comfortable are Axis guys when it comes to approving credit limit to new cards.
Also do they look at other credit card limits while approving .
I have the Axis Vistara Infinite & it has the lowest limit among all my cards. Some friends who got the Vistara Signature too weren’t happy with the limits. Hoping for some LE offers to kick in post 6 months.
Yes ..They gave me vistara platinum with 25k limit..which is very low compared to all my cards.
It’s 3 months now they are offering upgrade to vistara signature ,and it’s useless for me as I don’t travel much.
Is a Add-on card also eligible for getting 3,000 CV points on spending 75,000 in 90 days of setup ?
@Sid
Any idea how long AXIS takes to credit 3000 CV points for spending 75K. I have already crossed more than 1.5L in a single trxn, so got the complimentary ticket but not 3000 CV points.
How long i should wait ? or shall I shot an email.
It’ll be T+3 or T+4 days usually.
Hi
Can any one confirm validity of cv points earned and validity of milestones benefits.
Thanks
3 years and 6 months respectively.
Hi
I have applied and one person collected document on 31st December.
Till today there is no further communication from axis bank. Hiw many days it takes for card approval?
Thanks
Pranav
Premiums economy ticket on completing milestones is only on domestic travel or even international?
All tickets are domestic routes only.