Category
MakeMyTrip
Booking through MakeMyTrip. Worth separating because a card can pay well here and nothing at all on a direct airline or hotel booking.
No card in your wallet earns rewards on makemytrip yet.
When you add a card that does, it will rank here automatically.
Best in market
Worth knowing that the co-branded card is not the best card for the brand it is named after, which is unusual and worth checking before you apply. · Top-tier picks from the whole Indian market, researched 11 Aug 2026.
HDFC Bank PIXEL Play
5% on MakeMyTrip, beating MakeMyTrip's own co-branded card
₹500 + GST, waived on ₹1L a year
Nearly double the rate of the ICICI MakeMyTrip card at half the fee, provided you select the Travel pack. SmartBuy also pays 5% on flights and hotels from a separate monthly pot, so the card has two travel routes.
You must choose the Travel pack, and the 500 CashPoint monthly cap is shared with Uber and the rest of that pack, roughly ₹10,000 of spend.
ICICI Bank MakeMyTrip
3% on MakeMyTrip flights with no cap at all
₹999 + GST, waived on ₹3L a year
Lower rate but uncapped, so for one large holiday booking it can pay more than a 5% card that stops at ₹10,000 of spend. Run the arithmetic on your actual trip size.
Flights booked through MakeMyTrip only. Non MakeMyTrip flights drop to 1%, and hotels are not covered by the 3%.
Your wallet · MakeMyTrip
What this category is actually worth
The same checks as the wallet page, narrowed to all 0 cards that earn on makemytrip. Set a monthly figure for it in to put rupees on these.
Earnings here
What each card would return on makemytrip at your spend. raw rates, before caps.
Every card in your wallet is excluded from makemytrip. See the reasons in the table above.
Milestone progress
Milestones on these cards, against your total spend routed to one card.
None of the cards that earn here has a milestone.
Fee check: does each card pay for itself?
Value is still counted across your whole wallet, not just this category. a card earns its fee wherever it wins. Waivers are not assumed.
| Card | Fee | Value/yr | Verdict |
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Where the market beats your wallet
Your best card against the top pick in Best in market, just above. The numbers only, since the pick itself is already on this page.
No market pick with a comparable rate for this category yet.