Planning ahead for your Atmos Rewards points
Lifetime transfer options and steps to take now for Alaska Airlines points
Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan / Atmos Rewards Guest Care
Alaska Airlines Customer Care (Memorial Miles, AIM Department)
Alaska Airlines Customer Care, Attn: AIM Department, P.O. Box 13670, Des Moines, WA 98198
While Alaska Airlines does allow post-death transfer of points, lifetime planning gives the account holder more control over how points are shared and used.
Atmos Rewards allows members to transfer points to other program members during their lifetime. Fees may apply, but this is a direct way to move points to family members while you are alive.
How to protect your Atmos Rewards points
4 steps for managing your Atmos Rewards points during your lifetime:
- •Ensure your beneficiaries have their own Atmos Rewards accounts (free to create at alaskaair.com/enroll)
- •Document which beneficiaries should receive points and in what proportions
Family sharing
Atmos Rewards does not offer a formal family-pooling program, but points can be moved between member accounts. The Transfer Miles program lets a member transfer points into another member's account for $10.00 per 1,000 points plus a $25.00 processing fee per transaction, in 1,000-point increments from 1,000 to 30,000 points per transaction, and up to 100,000 points transferred in or out of an account per calendar year. Transfers usually post immediately but can take up to 72 hours, and are not refundable or reversible. Separately, the Atmos Rewards Summit Visa Infinite card and several eligible Hawaiian Airlines co-branded cards unlock free Points Sharing across a network of up to 10 other Atmos Rewards members with no transaction fees. Points can also be redeemed to book award travel for anyone.
Should you save your passwords for your family?
Some people store account passwords so a family member can sign in later. The practice has three practical limits:
- Two-factor authentication often blocks it. Most accounts require a second factor — a code sent to a phone, an authenticator app, a passkey, or a physical key. A saved password alone frequently does not grant access, and the recovery codes that would are easy to lose or let go stale.
- It usually conflicts with the platform's terms. Most operators prohibit account sharing and signing in as another person, including after a death. Stored credentials are not the operator's recognized access path, and using them can violate the terms of service.
- Operators provide other paths. Where an operator offers a designation tool — Apple's Legacy Contact, Google's Inactive Account Manager, a beneficiary designation — that mechanism grants access the operator recognizes. A password manager's own emergency-access or legacy feature passes credentials through a controlled process. Digital assets named in a will or trust give a fiduciary authority under each state's Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (RUFADAA).
An inventory listing the Atmos Rewards account lets a fiduciary identify it and act on it through the operator's official channels.
Atmos Rewards does not support beneficiary designations. Unlike financial accounts, there is no way to name a beneficiary on this type of account.
Sources
Data sourced from Alaska Airlines primary sources (8 pages reviewed). How we research.
Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan / Atmos Rewards Guest Care
Alaska Airlines Customer Care (Memorial Miles, AIM Department)
Alaska Airlines Customer Care, Attn: AIM Department, P.O. Box 13670, Des Moines, WA 98198
