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The only constant in the world of points and miles is change. And just after overhauling and rebranding its loyalty program, Alaska Airlines is making more updates to its roster of partner airlines. It’ll drop one partnership entirely and scale back another.
Here’s what you need to know about how this affects redeeming Atmos Rewards points, earning them on eligible flights, and when the updates take effect.
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Alaska Airlines Ending One Loyalty Partnership, Reducing Another
Part of the allure of the Atmos Rewards program (formerly Mileage Plan) is its roster of partner airlines. On most of these carriers, you can both earn and redeem points — often for fantastic value. But unfortunately, two of those partnerships with Singapore Airlines and LATAM are changing.
The details and timeline differ for each carrier, so we’ll cover what’s happening one by one.
Singapore Airlines
Let’s start with the not-as-bad news. Alaska Airlines’ partnership with Singapore Airlines is being scaled back.
Most importantly, starting October 1, 2025, you’ll no longer be able to redeem Atmos Rewards for award flights operated by Singapore Airlines. If you booked an award flight before these changes were announced for travel after October 1, the airline will still honor it.
The earning side of the partnership is changing, too. If you booked a ticket on Singapore Airlines and credited it to Atmos Rewards before August 31, 2025 (for any travel dates already ticketed), or if you book on or after September 1, 2025 for travel through December 31, 2025, you’ll still earn points at the current rates.
However, if you book a paid ticket on or after September 1, 2025 for travel on or after January 1, 2026 and credit it to Alaska, you won’t earn any points unless you buy the ticket on AlaskaAir.com and then submit a post-flight points credit request.
Booking through AlaskaAir.com can sometimes be more expensive than other channels or even via Singapore Airlines itself, so weigh any points you might earn against the fare difference.
Here's the link to submit this form.
LATAM
Now for the bad news. Alaska Airlines is ending its relationship with LATAM entirely, and the timeline is similar to what’s happening with Singapore Airlines.
Starting October 1, 2025, you’ll no longer be able to redeem points for awards operated by LATAM. That means now’s the time to grab one of those cheap business class awards to South America while they’re still available.
On the earning side, you’ll still get points at the current rates if you booked a ticket before August 31, 2025, for any date already ticketed. You’ll also earn points for travel booked between September 1 and September 30, 2025, as long as the trip is completed by December 31, 2025.
But if you book a LATAM flight on or after October 1, 2025, and try to credit it to Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards, you won’t earn anything. You'll want to consider another program to credit your flights to.
Bottom Line
Like many other aspects of its loyalty program, Alaska Airlines’ roster of partners is changing, too. For those who care most about earning and redeeming Atmos Rewards points on partner flights, be advised: earning rates on two airlines being pared back or scrapped entirely, and redemptions on both Singapore Airlines and LATAM will end on October 1, 2025. These changes aren't great, to put it bluntly.
So, now’s the time to book awards on these carriers through Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards before the window closes.
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This totally changes the calculus on signing up for a Atmos card for me. Very frustrating.
Singapore there is a dozen other points programs to redeem but LATAM, offf, the walls are closing in even harder.
Deals like MIA to SCL or MEX to GRU for only 45k points in J were fantastic.
Since Latam left Oneworld , Alaska was one of the last places to get good deals on LATAM flights in Biz, as redemption space with BA and Cathay were reduced by 90%+ and redemptions on AA removed all together.
The frustrating part has been LA has not worked hard to make new partnerships. Delta hardly releases any Latam award space, in business almost non-existant. Aeromexico same deal.
Sometimes biz class RT can be as cheap as $1.5-$2k from Miami to Sao Paulo or Buenos Aires, which means around 130k RT with Chase UR with a Reserve or Amex Biz Plat or Plat usding their respective portals at 1.5cpp, but both credit card companies are phasing those options out.
So what happens next?
All thats really left is some Premium economy tix with LATAM at 1.75c per point using Chase new “point boost” but see little in biz with “points boost” at 2x.
Maybe by some miracles LATAM gets added as a transfer partner to MR, UR, Citi, C1 etc….
As of this year supposudly you can redeem LATAM with VS points, but space has been very low, perhaps they’re just taking some time to get the system online. For example when Aeromexico was added as Virgin partner it took many months almost a year for the space to fully show.
This is really disappointing.. I do fly plenty of one world carriers, but in all honesty: half of my Atmos miles were earned on SQ and LA 🫠
“However, if you book a paid ticket on or after October 1, 2025, and credit it to Alaska, you won’t earn any points at all. The only exception is if you book your ticket on Alaskaair.com. And sometimes that can be more expensive than booking through other channels. So, you’ll need to weigh the rewards you’ll earn against the added cost.
It’s also worth noting that if you’ve booked or plan to book a paid ticket operated by Singapore Airlines (and credit it to Alaska) before October 1 for travel on or after January 1, 2026, you’ll still earn points, but it won’t be automatic. You’ll need to submit a points credit request to get your earnings — so don’t trash the email with your booking details.”
So which is it? Will you continue to earn Alaska miles on Singapore flights or not? Even if processed manually?
Hi JohnB, apologies for the confusion here; conflated the Singapore changes with the LATAM changes. The section has been fixed!
But to answer your question, yes, you’ll still continue to earn Alaska miles/Atmos Rewards points on Singapore flights, but only if you both book via Alaska’s website and submit the point credit request.