Alaska has seen a lot of positive press over the past couple of months, first with great anticipation of the combined loyalty program with Hawaiian and then with the announced revamp of its frequent flyer program. Unfortunately, today brings bad news for Alaska Atmos fans: award redemption partnerships with both LATAM and Singapore Airlines are ending on 10/1/25. Both are certainly big disappointments.
Atmos Award redemption partnerships with both LATAM and Singapore Airlines are scheduled to end 10/1/25
One Mile at a Time reported today that the partnership between Alaska Airlines and Singapore Airlines is being scaled back, including the end of reciprocal mileage redemptions on 10/1/25. In the comments of that post, I noticed a mention from the reader who tipped off One Mile at a Time about the Singapore partnership that the LATAM partnership is also ending.
On the Singapore front, Alaska has published the following updates:
Starting October 1, 2025, guests will be unable to redeem Singapore Airlines award tickets on Alaska Airlines. However, any tickets you’ve already booked remain valid. The way you earn points with Singapore Airlines is also changing. Please review the details below for more information.
Points earned with Singapore Airlines
Tickets booked For travel Earn points Through August 31, 2025 Any dates already ticketed* View chart On or after September 1, 2025 Through December 31, 2025 View chart After September 1, 2025 On or after January 1, 2026 No points unless booked on Alaskaair.com
In other words, it will still be possible to earn Alaska Atmos rewards for travel that takes place on Singapore Airlines, but the travel dates vary based on when your ticket is/was purchased. If you booked by 8/31/25, you can earn Atmos points on your existing ticket as per the Alaska earning charts regardless of when travel takes place. If you purchase through ticket on or after today (9/1/25), you can earn Atmos points on a Singapore Airlines flight completed through 12/31/25. For newly-purchased tickets for travel on or after 1/1/25, you’ll only earn Atmos points if you booked your Singapore Airlines flight through Alaskaair.com (which I assume is only possible if you’re buying it in conjunction with an Alaska/Hawaiian flight).
The more important component for most readers is that it will not be possible to redeem miles for award tickets on Singapore beginning on 10/1/25. While Singapore Airlines releases limited award space to partners, Alaska has historically had access to at least some space that you won’t find through many other partners, so this is a blow for those who have been in the habit of redeeming Alaska miles for those flights.
Unfortunately, it is a similar story with regard to the partnership with LATAM. The newly published updates on Alaska’s website indicate:
Starting October 1, 2025, guests will be unable to redeem LATAM Airlines award tickets on Alaska Airlines. However, any tickets you’ve already booked remain valid. The way you earn points with LATAM Airlines is also changing. Please review the details below for more information.
Points earned with LATAM Airlines
Tickets booked For travel Earn points Through August 31, 2025 Any dates already ticketed* View chart On or after September 1, 2025 through September 30, 2025 Through December 31, 2025 View chart On or after October 1, 2025 On or after January 1, 2026 No points *For trips on or after January 1, 2026, you’ll need to submit a points credit request (with confirmation of your booking date) to receive your points.
The dates for mileage earning are slightly different as the LATAM partnership wraps up. However, the ability to redeem Alaska Atmos Rewards for flights on LATAM similarly ends on October 1, 2025.
I am particularly disappointed by this change as we flew LATAM during our Party of 5 challenge and I have been keenly interested in a trip to South America for my family using Alaska Atmos rewards. In fact, I have an existing booking for the outbound portion of a trip to South America booked on LATAM via Alaska for travel in January. We had recently decided to change plans, and as a result, I was intending to cancel that outbound and/or rebook for a different time. I had been waiting for dates later in 2026 to open in order to rebook. With the redemption partnership scheduled to end on October 1st, it looks like I won’t get a chance for that late 2026 trip via Alaska Atmos. Good award redemption options to/from South America are already more limited than to other regions, so I am very disappointed to see this one dry up as Alaska had some excellent pricing on long LATAM award flights.
I’m not sure this could be considered shocking news since Alaska is a member of the Oneworld Alliance, while Singapore is in Star Alliance and Delta owns a stake in LATAM, but it is nonetheless disappointing to see Alaska lose partnerships, particularly right at the beginning of its newly-combined Atmos Rewards program.
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My favorite way to get to my favorite continent. Leaving for Lima on Thanksgiving Day.
AS has been partners with LA for 20+ years. I did dca-sea-lax-scl-eze in LAN Chile J in 2005.
LATAM has been on borrowed time, I am surprised that Delta let it last this long.
Several months ago, AS already lost access to some of the LATAM J seats, including but not limited to MIA-SCL and CUN-SCL, while other LATAM partners still have access to the same seats. At that time I sensed the end is near. Now even Oct 1 is not here yet, it is already impossible to use Atmos to book MEX-SCL either, strangely, ATL-LIM remains with limited availability.
With Atmos out of the picture, the sweet spot to South America now belongs to MEX-SCL on 30K LH miles in J.
This is devastating news as I had several LATAM redemption plans lined up. Taking away a major reason for me to care about Atmos Rewards.
No LATAM, noooooooooo!!!!!!!!
LATAM is a huge loss. Dang!!!
I was looking forward to being able to fly to LATAM destinations out of my home airport if and when Alaska would ever get around to offering its very long promised multi-partner awards. Now that opportunity dies before it’s even born. I transferred a ton of Amex MR points to Hawaiian in anticipation of this. Atmos surely should win the Bonvoyed “award” for this,
Be watchful of those bloggeristas that don’t adjust down their valuation of Alaska miles after this. Charlatans all of them
Mate they didn’t adjust UR points value after Chase nuked portal redemptions and replaced it with an overpriced bad copy of FHR. Do you really think they will adjust AS miles because they ended 2 partnerships?
Even Richard Kerr called them out on his weekly podcast. How Chase destroyed their broad portal redemptions and replaced it with some niche-use scenarios and the value of UR didn’t even zilch a little bit…that’s gotta be more nutty than peanut butter.
All justified as irrelevant because the bloggers only use UR points for program transfers (and of course so does everyone else except the stupid) so why does it matter that portal redemptions were nuked…
Because the ability to redeem at the portal for 1.5 CPP was the secret sauce for evaluating transferable currencies. Also, that ability was quite broad and usefull. Unless you are always transferring to fly premium cabins, it is hard to beat 1.5 CPP.
You ain’t getting higher than 1.5CPP with Marriott, IHG, flying economy, or just booking tours. I wouldn’t call those people stupid either.
I was agreeing with you. Bloggers didn’t cover the impact properly because they never cared about that, and assumed it was useless because they didn’t use the feature. I did.
Ah okay. Sorry, I misread your comment. My apologies.
2 of the more useful partners. Argh…
The only other remaining is DE. Well, that actually depends on what DE plans to do after LH feeder deal is gone. If DE is gone, then Atmos becomes an intra-US/intra-EU short distance outlet.
JX and JL are still good for me.
JL has been harder to find on Atmos these days, as competition from other rewards programs with longer booking window snatches them first. Granted, Atmos has access to JL PE, which no other program outside JAL’s own seems to have now.
JX 75K for more than one seat — possible but not consistent. I value DE and LA for their consistent availability.
Do folks think that the new Condor – Jet Blue agreement mean that they are thinking of distancing themselves from Alaska going forward?
Alaska is weak on East Coast, Condor needs to find a partner for east coast feed.
This is a big blow to be unable to use them in the future for LATAM flights.
Major devaluations for partners.