Atmos Rewards
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Sep 14, 2026
LucasHOST
Speaking of Alaska Airlines, if you're a frequent flyer with that carrier, there's some good news on the card front.
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The Atmos Rewards Ascent Visa Signature card is offering seventy thousand bonus points plus a ninety-nine dollar companion fare after spending two thousand five hundred dollars in the first ninety days, valued at over a thousand dollars.
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The premium Atmos Summit Visa Infinite card is offering eighty thousand points plus a twenty-five thousand point global companion award after four thousand dollars spend, worth up to sixteen hundred and twenty-eight dollars.
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Both cards offer free checked bags and preferred boarding.
LucasHOST
Here's your quick cheat sheet on the best programs.
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Alaska Atmos Rewards, American A Advantage, Delta SkyMiles, JetBlue TrueBlue, Southwest Rapid Rewards, and United MileagePlus all charge nothing for changes or cancellations.
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Those are the programs to use when booking speculative awards.
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On the other end of the spectrum, Etihad Guest has arguably the most punitive policies, no changes or cancellations within seventy-two hours of departure and percentage-based fees that can eat up a significant chunk of your miles.
Kyle PotterHOST
Those live with a specific airline.
Kyle PotterHOST
Once you have Delta SkyMiles, once you have American Advantage Miles or Alaska Atmos Rewards or United Mileage Plus Miles or Hilton Honors Points, they live in those accounts.
Kyle PotterHOST
You cannot transfer them or send them to another airline, even if those airlines partner together.
Kyle PotterHOST
You can't turn Delta SkyMiles into Air France KLM Flying Blue Miles.
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Kyle PotterHOST
We both are, of course, based in Minneapolis, so having a way to book Delta flights for less is great.
Kyle PotterHOST
For people who live elsewhere, there are ways to recreate this if you need to fly United or American.
Kyle PotterHOST
The one that comes to mind for me is using either Japan Airlines miles or Alaska Atmos rewards to fly airlines like American Airlines because they're all members of the One World Alliance, which means you can use JAL miles or Alaska points to fly American Airlines.
Kyle PotterHOST
Alaska charges as low as 4,500 miles each way for a domestic flight, whether it's operated by Alaska itself or American Airlines, even when American might be charging significantly more advantage miles for that same flight.
Shawn CoomerHOST
And I booked Starlux, Mark.
Shawn CoomerHOST
I found a Starlux Saver Award on Alaska.
Shawn CoomerHOST
All that coming up right now on MTM Travel.
Mark OstermannHOST
Avoiding the angled live flat.
Shawn CoomerHOST
I just missed it, but it doesn't seem like there's a ton of space.
Shawn CoomerHOST
And there it is, a single seat.
Shawn CoomerHOST
75 K and I happen to have a lot of Alaska miles and it was just beautiful.
Shawn CoomerHOST
It was a couple of days before I wanted to go though.
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Now let's talk about lap infant award travel, because there have been some really significant developments here.
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Alaska Atmos Rewards has quietly implemented what might be the most generous lap infant policy in the industry.
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For long-haul international award redemptions, including those on partner airlines, Atmos Rewards will now charge only government-mandated taxes and fees to add a lap infant.
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No 10% of the adult revenue fare, no points charge, just the taxes.
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This applies to flights on Alaska, Hawaiian, and partner airlines like British Airways, Japan Airlines, American Airlines, Icelandair, and Starlux.
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The one caveat, you have to add the infant by calling Atmos Rewards, as it can't be done online.
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But that's a small inconvenience for potentially saving hundreds of dollars, especially in premium cabins.
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To compare, Air Canada Aeroplan charges just 2,500 points, or 25 Canadian dollars, which is also excellent and can be done online.
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Alaska Airlines is
DeAndre KochHOST
giving away 1 million Atmos rewards points in a new sweepstakes.
DeAndre KochHOST
I'll go ahead and link that in the show notes for basically anyone that if you have an Atmos account, then apply for it.
DeAndre KochHOST
It doesn't hurt to try.
DeAndre KochHOST
If you don't have an Atmos account, register for one and apply.
DeAndre KochHOST
apply for it free opportunity in the famous words of i think it was either michael jordan or wayne gretzky miss 100 of the shots you don't take so make sure you go ahead and apply again the link will be in the show notes 1 million atmos rewards points could be yours by chance so if you do listen to the show and you are a winner please let me know we'd love to celebrate you on air if you did win And lastly, there's a few transfer bonuses to be aware of.
DeAndre KochHOST
All of these are running through this month of September.
DeAndre KochHOST
So we have City Thank You Rewards, 25% transfer bonus to leading hotels of the world that expire September 19th.
LucasHOST
Next, let's talk about a genuinely exciting development for families traveling with lap infants.
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Atmos Rewards, that's the loyalty program of Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines, has just introduced what is now the most generous lap infant award policy in the entire industry.
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Normally, on international award tickets, you'd have to pay 10% of the cash adult fare for a lap infant, and on a premium cabin ticket, that can easily run over $1,000.
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Ouch.
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Atmos Rewards has changed that completely.
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Now, if you book an international award ticket through Atmos Rewards, your lap infant flies for just the applicable government taxes and fees.
LucasHOST
No percentage of the cash fare, no carrier surcharges.
LucasHOST
And this applies not just to Alaska and Hawaiian flights, but to all partner airlines, as long as the ticket is issued on Alaska or Hawaiian ticket stock.
Megan CoyleHOST
A lot of the same transfer partners as the Chase ecosystem, plus a few bonus ones that I also like.
Megan CoyleHOST
My favorite is Atmos Rewards, 'cause that's the loyalty program of Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines, and they have really great redemption rates for OneWorld Airlines.
Sally FrenchHOST
I do wanna also quickly shout out a couple other cards that have no annual fees because I know there are so many people out there who are saying, "I'm not paying an annual fee for a card." Also, I do think there is an opportunity cost where 4X on a card that has an annual fee is not necessarily better than 3X on a card with no annual fee.
Sally FrenchHOST
So some of the other cards that I love that have no annual fees is the Wells Fargo Autograph, which gets 3X on restaurants.
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Sally FrenchHOST
The next thing I wanna talk about is dining rewards programs.
Sally FrenchHOST
This is sort of, I think, the next level of earning rewards on your credit card spending because you can just earn the 3X or the 4X points, you can spend your statement credits, but then there's this next thing that often you have to enroll in separately, and these are programs that are often tied to airlines.
Sally FrenchHOST
There's American A Advantage Dining, there's the Atmos Rewards Dining, Delta Sky Miles Dining, United MileagePlus Dining.
Sally FrenchHOST
I could go on and on about these, but there are so many dining programs.
LucasHOST
Now, here's a story that's getting a lot of attention in the points community.
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Ben, at One Mile at a Time, is officially switching his loyalty from American A Advantage to Alaska Atmos Rewards.
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And the math really does speak for itself.
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He currently has 811 A Advantage loyalty points for the year.
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Yes, that's 811, not 80,000, not 800,000.
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He has basically zero chance of requalifying for A Advantage Executive Platinum.
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Meanwhile, he's already at 66,000 Atmos Rewards status points, putting him squarely on track for Atmos Platinum status, which unlocks One World Emerald status.
LucasHOST
That is the top tier of the One World Alliance.
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Now over to credit cards, and there's some genuinely useful stuff here for Alaska and Hawaiian flyers.
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The Atmos Rewards Summit Visa Infinite Credit Card, which carries a $395 annual fee, has a benefit that Ben Schlappig at One Mile at a Time is calling one of the card's most underrated perks, a waiver of the $20 partner award booking fee.
LucasHOST
Now, Atmos Rewards, the combined loyalty program of Alaska and Hawaiian, charges that $20 fee per person per direction when booking on partner airlines.
LucasHOST
So, a round trip for two people? That's $80 in fees right there.
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With the Atmos Rewards Summit card, that fee gets waived every single time, with no limit on uses, as long as you pay the taxes and fees with the card.
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Ben ran the numbers on his own redemptions over four months and calculated over $680 in saved fees.
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If you frequently redeem Atmos points on American for short-haul travel, this benefit alone could more than cover the annual fee.
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