Estate planning as a Atmos Rewards account holder

Atmos Rewards is the combined Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines loyalty program, launched on August 20, 2025 as a rebrand of Alaska Mileage Plan after the two carriers combined. HawaiianMiles was absorbed on October 1, 2025: Alaska's own announcements state that HawaiianMiles members "and all their miles will automatically transition into Atmos Rewards on Oct. 1", at one mile to one point, with elite status carried over and the HawaiianMiles branding phased out. There is no separate HawaiianMiles program to deal with today; a former HawaiianMiles balance is an Atmos Rewards balance. The published Conditions of Membership state that points "do not have an expiration date and may remain in an account indefinitely," and they carry no death, deceased, or estate provision at all.

When a Atmos Rewards account holder dies, their points can be transferred to family members at no charge.

Atmos Rewards allows members to transfer points to other program members during their lifetime, typically for a fee. This is a practical way to share value without a formal estate transfer.

What happens at death

Since the October 2025 consolidation, a former HawaiianMiles balance is handled the same way as any other Atmos Rewards balance: through the internal Alaska Airlines Guest Care practice, historically called "Memorial Miles," under which a deceased member's points are credited to one or more named survivors at no charge once a copy of the death certificate and the account numbers are supplied, and can be split among several recipients. The practice is not published. A 2026-09-16 scan of Alaska's own 5,012-URL sitemap and of the Atmos Rewards Conditions of Membership found no deceased-member page and no death, deceased, or estate provision anywhere, so neither the practice's current name under the Atmos brand nor any documentation list, deadline, or fee is confirmable from a primary source. A request is therefore discretionary rather than a contractual right: the Terms state that accrued points "do not constitute the property of the member to whose Atmos Rewards account the Points have been posted," and they prohibit combining or transferring points between accounts outside the Points.com transfer program and the credit-card points-sharing benefit. Alaska reviews the request on its own terms.

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