Earlier this year, Alaska announced that it would be releasing a premium credit card in late summer of 2025, as part of its ongoing merger with Hawaiian Airlines. The (unfortunate) name of the program, Atmos Rewards, has already been leaked, and now we’ve also received numerous juicy details about the credit card as well.
Atmos™ Rewards Summit Visa Infinite® Credit Card
Hat-tip to reader Brian, who came across an offer for the card that appeared to be targeted at either Bank of America or Alaska employees, and which also provided lots of terrific detail:
- $395 annual fee
- Initial Welcome Offer: Receive 5,000 bonus points after opening your new account. Earn an additional 100,000 bonus points and a Global 25,000-point (25K) Companion Award after spending $6,000 or more on purchases within the first 90 days of opening your account. (Note that this was intended for employees, so the public offer might be slightly different)
- Perks:
- Annual Global 25K Companion Award for a travel companion on the same itinerary, when booking travel using your Atmos™ Rewards points.
- Global 100K Companion Award every year you spend $60K or more on purchases in that anniversary year.
- 2 Alaska Lounge passes and 2 Wi-Fi passes each calendar quarter.
- Free checked bag for you and up to 6 guests traveling on the same reservation when you purchase Alaska or Hawaiian Airlines airfare with the card.
- 10,000 status points every year on your account anniversary, and earn 1 status point for every $2 spent on purchases
- Up to $120 Airport Security Credit every four years in connection with the TSA PreCheck® or Global Entry trusted traveler programs.
- Receive a $50 voucher for Alaska Airlines flight cancellations or departure delays of 2 hours+.
- Pay no change fee when you need to make a same-day change to your Alaska Airlines flight plans – a savings of up to $50 per change.
- No partner award fees: Flexibility with no blackout dates or redemption fees on Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines or partner airline flights when booking with points or a Global Companion Award.
- Earning rate:
- 3x Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, dining, and foreign purchases.
- 1 status point for every $2 in spend.
- 10% rewards bonus on all points earned from card purchases if you have an eligible Bank of America® account.
Quick Thoughts
It’s rare that we’re pleasantly surprised by a new card product, but this new Atmos Summit Visa looks pretty good. The 25K annual companion award for points-bookings is terrific. The ability to get one worth 100K, which would cover a round-trip business class trip to Europe from the Midwest/East Coast, after $60K in spend, will make it very tempting to put spend on the card, especially since that spend would also get you at least 60-66K redeemable and 30,000 elite-qualifying points, enough for MVP Gold status when your 10K points boost is factored in.
We don’t know yet what the mechanism will be for those certificates or whether you can supplement them with additional points towards a higher-value award, but on the surface, they look very useful.
The rest of the benefits provide a mixture of standard offerings, such as checked bags, lounge passes, and TSA Pre-check, with some pretty innovative ones, like a $50 voucher for delays or cancellations, free same-day changes, no partner award fees, and 3x earning on all foreign purchases. That last one will make it a favorite for both expats and folks who travel internationally with any frequency.
All of this seems like a good value proposition for $395/year, especially for those who frequently fly Alaska/Hawaiian and/or are looking for “Atleas” some Atmos status (because you’ll be MVP Gold Atwors). Combine that with what appears to be a triple-digit initial welcome offer, and it seems like a pretty tasty late-summer treat.
We don’t yet have an official launch date for the card, but Alaska has scheduled a “big” announcement on August 20th; odds are it will be then or shortly after.
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I was pretty excited about this card when they first teased it months ago. After hearing the details my feelings are lukewarm at best. The 25k companion benefit is in many cases worse than the companion fare on the “ascent” card.
I’m planning on flying my Mom from SFO to LAP this November. It would be about 50-60k rt per passenger so the ,”summit” card would at best cover OW. Unless the “Global” companion award can be topped off it’s a garbage benefit. All the other benefits are pretty meh.
Saving $12 on the 1-3 award bookings isn’t exciting at all. I get an hour of free wifi from T-Mobile plus a handful of full flight passes. I haven’t been to an Alaska lounge in a while but I recall them being only slightly better than the Southwest lounges :-). I can access better lounges in LAX and SFO.
The 3x per mile spent abroad is the most appealing benefit as I spend over half the year outside the US but I can get 3x on dining and hotels with other cards. And 80k sign up bonus is weak. I’ll be passing on this, with all the build up this is a real let down. But it’s BofA so I really shouldn’t be surprised. I’ll get the ascent for the miles and companion fare then cancel next year
A random DP that the branding change may have already started: i called Alaska yesterday to change an international award that i couldn’t change online, and it was 7.5K miles extra; the agent kept referring to them as “points”.
Beats the pants off anything Delta has come up with on their cards.
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How does this benefit “Annual Global 25K Companion Award for a travel companion on the same itinerary, when booking travel using your Atmos™ Rewards points..” work? Do I book the initial award with points and then use the 25K for a companion for the same flight? What if the 25K doesn’t meet the rewards requirement for that flight?
Sounds like a good assumption based on the current information available. Think of it as a 25k discount coupon. You’d have to come up with the remaining points if there were any.
The 60K spend for a 100K companion award is a sucker bet for high spenders who can’t be bothered with getting multiple SUBs. Let alone all the Chase Ink and Amex points parade offers, a simple one like 2x C1 spark business will net $4K in cold hard cash.
I estimate it at a 5% return on spend, IF you can use it before it expires, and a bigger IF you can find redeemable rewards for two. Based on Ben’s current strategy, Alaska will likely be increasing their war against loyal customers who seek to redeem award flights and doing everything possible to make the points impossible to spend.
How would this benefit or impact someone who already has a Hawaiian account? When are they merging? I am considering opening a Hawaian card ASAP so it combines my points with my current Alaska Air points. My husband has the Hawaian card he got it this month and we’re applying for him to get the Alaska Card wondering if waiting for this one is better then getting one of the current offers or waiting on this one? But worried it will be after they merge the programs
We can only speculate at this point without solid information released, but it seems that Barclays and BOA will both be around at least in the short term.
Bummer, I like the current Alaska CC. I will not be getting a credit card with a $395 annual fee. That is ridiculous!
Its not like they’re getting rid of the $99 one. They aren’t mutually exclusive I can see use for both.
Lets say you have a VPN and you make a purchase online “as if” you are in another place. would that be counted as “Foreign purchase”?
I’d guess the delivery address would need to be foreign as well.
Site needs to be foreign. You can order from Amazon.com.mx and it’ll be foreign regardless of where you are.
This, a foreign purchase would be based on the vendor not your location.
That’s not how it works. That’s not how any of this works.
1) What is the Trip Cancellation Protection? Needs to equal the Chase Sapphire Preferred/Reserve card protection of $20,000 per trip
2) Would have loved to see 2X points on all other travel purchases
Do the 10k status points apply year 1 or not? “10,000 status points every year on your account anniversary” – since it doesn’t say “starting on” your account anniversary, it’s unclear to me. Anyone else?
That language on other cards has always meant starting in year two.
That’s what I feared. Dang you B of A for encouraging me to pay $395 more than once!
Likely year 2, but there’s no official information available yet so we can only guess.
I am thinking about applying for the current “standard” Alaska credit card and earn the sign up bonus and was hoping to also apply for the upcoming Alaska Summit card and earn that SUB as well. What do we think…would that probably work or is Alaska more likely to limit the sign up bonus? Similar to Chase Sapphire “one sub per card family” rule
Alaska isn’t going to limit you. Bank of America will but they do not have one sub per family rule. However since you don’t have the standard one right now they probably won’t give you 2 around the same time.
@tim steinke how has the latest B of A velocity for approvals been ? Really looking forward to this Alaska Atmos card.
My History:
Denied Alaska B of A a few times in the last few years. Decided to open B of A business checking and personal savings to increase odds. It worked!
2025-05-10 – Applied for (And approved) – B of A – Alaska Business Card
2025-07-26 – Applied for (And approved) – B of A – Alaska Personal Card
Limitations on approvals these days? Still “
Or is the B of A rule still “Your best chance of B of A approval if you have opened no more than 2 cards in 12 months” ?”
Should we open Alaska cards now before this one is released. Will the old Alaska cards end? Did Hawaiian officially end ?
The Hawaiian cards are still around and won’t be going away in October, as many of us thought. If I didn’t have an Alaska card currently, I’d probably wait until the release/rebrand to see what the welcome offer on the base card changes to.
Hey Tim, I was wondering the same. What makes you think they’ll change the old one? And if they do, isn’t there a risk they will change the Companion system like with the new one? My thinking is better to apply now and at worst ask for a sub match. Seems like the new one is quite different and they’ll let you have both.
Tim isn’t saying they’ll change the current Alaska card. He’s saying most of us thought they were going to get rid of the Baclay’s Hawaiian card and Barclay’s confirmed it is staying.
I agree with you I bet BoA will let you have both Alaska cards, but because its BoA unlikely you will get approved for both in any close succession.
Thanks. I was referring to the current Alaska one – is it better to apply now for the 50k published SUB (65 via link) vs waiting to see if any changes with the announcement of the new one next week. My gut feeling is that there’s more to lose like changes to Companion rules vs win (slightly higher SUB that could probably be matched). But all based on thoughts, nothing official.
I honestly don’t think they are going to change the $99 card at all. They’re not going after the same market.
The sign up offers are always changing. Yesterday the main AS site was pushing 30k + $300 credit, and I see it back to 50k again today.