Revaluation All passengers will now earn points on SBI IRCTC card bookings!

[rogerthat]

Incredible news for SBI IRCTC card holders! You will now on get points (as per time period) on the entire fare paid for all passengers on the ticket and not just only your fare amount! SBI Card has out of nowhere amended its Terms and Conditions to create this revaluation.

As posted on the SBI Card website: "W.e.f 26 Dec'24, the accrual of Reward Points on ticket purchases at www.irctc.com will be basis the booking amount i.e the value of the Primary Cardholder’s individual fare as well as that of all other co-travelers."


Until now only the primary card holder's ticket charges would earn points which made this card useless for family travel booking. However with this single move SBI IRCTC is card is now hands down the best rewarding card for train ticket bookings with confirmed 4% to 10% value back!

It is more shocking than suprising to see such revaluations coming in as a ray of light this season of doom and gloom and that too from SBI Cards!

 

[sidpsidp is verified member.]

Earlier to avail the rp, card holder had to be one of the passenger on the ticket and rp was only available for card holder's fare.

Now they are mentioning, rp for all other co-travelers.( not just passengers on the ticket) So seems like the primary card holder still has to be one of the passenger.

Therefore keep it in mind before you start applying for new cards.

Credit- @dexter_greycells

 

[dexter_greycells]

Ditto for me. I sent an email to the IRCTC Loyalty Team last week and am awaiting a resolution. HDFC SmartBuy is still awesome if you use one of the reward points based cards (Infinia, Diners, Regalia).

I checked my IRCTC Loyalty account today and the missing points were credited. However, IRCTC Loyalty didn't reply over the email stating they did it. They had just acknowledged my initial email.