tl;dr – At least one of you needs to be an Alaska credit card holder.
If you’re an Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards Visa credit cardholder, you can easily share your Atmos Rewards with up to ten other members of Alaska’s loyalty program.
Let’s be honest. Points and miles are fun enough to enjoy individually, but another level of value is unlocked when you can freely share points with friends, family, or really any other loyalty program member of your choosing. With regards to friends and family, it just makes sense that hotels, airlines (and other travel providers) should have a mechanism for free points sharing. After all, who are we most likely to travel with? This is why I try to call out programs that allow for easy and fluid points sharing. The other week, I profiled JetBlue’s TrueBlue.
How to Share Atmos Rewards with Other Members
As mentioned above, any holder of the following credit cards can get free points transfers to up to ten additional Atmos members:
- Atmos™ Rewards Summit Visa Infinite
- Hawaiian Airlines® World Elite Mastercard
- Hawaiian Airlines® Bank of Hawaii World Elite Mastercard
- Hawaiian Airlines® World Elite Business Mastercard
- Bankoh Hawaiian Airlines® Visa® Debit Cardholders
To get started, first log in to your Alaska account. The free points sharing feature is located within the rewards section of the dropdown menu accessible by clicking your name.
Note: Be sure to go through the Rewards tab as the option to transfer points from the ‘Share points, share the world graphic’ at this page will route you through traditional points transfers via points.com, which are NOT free.
Under the rewards tab, click on ‘Free points sharing.’
From there, you can invite the first member you’d like to share points with.
Fill out the name and Atmos Rewards number of the individual you’d like to add.
That individual will then receive an email prompting them to click through to accept your points sharing invite. Once they’ve done that, you’ll receive a confirmation email stating that “X member is now part of your network.” Congrats, you can freely share points.
What’s cool about this is that the other members you invite don’t need to be Alaska cardholders, yet the points sharing is bidirectional. So you could, in theory, invite multiple members – none of which are Alaska cardholders – and then serve as the conduit by which you shared points from one member to a third (or fourth). This will make it even easier to grab business class seats to South American on the cheap!
