Planning ahead for your Atmos Rewards points
Lifetime transfer options and steps to take now for Alaska Air Group (Alaska Airlines / Hawaiian Airlines) points
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While Alaska Air Group (Alaska Airlines / Hawaiian 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
6 lifetime planning steps for your Atmos Rewards points:
Family sharing
Atmos Rewards points can be transferred to another member's account for $10.00 per 1,000 points plus a $25.00 processing fee per transaction. Transfer limits are a 1,000-point minimum per transaction, a 30,000-point maximum per transaction (in 1,000-point increments), and 100,000 points transferred in or out of an account per calendar year. Transfers are not refundable or reversible and can take up to 72 hours to post. Separately, holders of the Atmos Rewards Summit Visa Infinite card and of the Hawaiian Airlines co-branded cards (Hawaiian Airlines World Elite Mastercard, Hawaiian Airlines Bank of Hawaii World Elite Mastercard, Hawaiian Airlines World Elite Business Mastercard, and the Bankoh Hawaiian Airlines Visa Debit Card) get free points transfers across a network of up to ten additional Atmos Rewards members. There is no formal family-pooling program equivalent to United's or Southwest's. Points can also be redeemed to book award travel for family members.
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).
Frequently asked questions
The published Conditions of Membership state that "Atmos Rewards points do not have an expiration date and may remain in an account indefinitely, provided that the Atmos Rewards program has not been terminated pursuant to these conditions of membership." This is a change from the former HawaiianMiles and Mileage Plan rules, which forfeited miles after 24 months of inactivity. The Terms mention 24 months only as the window for viewing online account activity, not as a forfeiture or lock period.
Member-to-member transfers cost $10.00 per 1,000 points plus a $25.00 processing fee per transaction, with a 1,000-point minimum, a 30,000-point maximum per transaction, and a 100,000-point per-calendar-year cap in or out of an account. Holders of the Atmos Rewards Summit Visa Infinite and of the Hawaiian Airlines co-branded cards get free points transfers across a network of up to ten additional Atmos Rewards members. Award travel booked with points can be for anyone, which moves the value without moving the points.
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 Air Group (Alaska Airlines / Hawaiian Airlines) primary sources (6 pages reviewed). How we research.
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