{"id":15006,"date":"2025-05-04T23:49:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T04:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15006"},"modified":"2025-05-04T23:52:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T04:52:55","slug":"air-india-maharaja-club-wins-global-recognition-at-freddie-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=15006","title":{"rendered":"Air India Maharaja Club wins global recognition at Freddie Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Story and image from Air India<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chicago, Illinois, May 1, 2025<\/strong> &#8211; Air India, India\u2019s leading global airline, has earned global recognition for its Maharaja Club loyalty program, which has been voted the 2025 \u2018Up and Coming Program\u2019 of the year in Asia, Middle East and Africa, at the prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/freddieawards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Freddie Awards<\/a> held in Chicago, Illinois.<\/p>\n<p>The Freddie Awards, introduced in 1988, are a highly respected global benchmark for travel loyalty programs, having grown in stature and importance to become the most prestigious member-generated awards in the travel loyalty industry. Today, over 4.2\u00a0million voters worldwide cast the Freddie Award ballots annually, with the balloting available in 13 languages, including Hindi.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018Up and Coming Program of the Year\u2019 award celebrates the significant positive feedback that Maharaja Club has garnered from frequent flyers globally in a short span of time, demonstrating exceptional value, innovation, and a promising future within the global travel industry.<\/p>\n<p>Since its revamp under Air India\u2019s new ownership of the Tata group and management, Maharaja Club has undergone a remarkable transformation. Redesigned in April 2024, the loyalty program moved away from the legacy model of miles-based collection of points to a fairer, more equitable spend-based approach. With a simplified structure, a host of customer-friendly features, renamed tiers, and an updated identity, the programme has added millions of new members over the last one year.<\/p>\n<p>Maharaja Club Members can earn and redeem points across 24 Star Alliance partner airlines, enjoy tier privileges worldwide, and access over 1,1000 lounges worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Welcome to Maharaja Club\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jxfyx3fXJwI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story and image from Air India Chicago, Illinois, May 1, 2025 &#8211; Air India, India\u2019s leading global airline, has earned global recognition for its Maharaja Club loyalty program, which has been voted the 2025 \u2018Up and Coming Program\u2019 of the year in Asia, Middle East and Africa, at the prestigious Freddie Awards held in Chicago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,13740,1103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airline-news","category-india-news","category-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15008,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15006\/revisions\/15008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}