Alaska Airlines Ending Points Redemptions, Reducing Relationships With 2 Airlines in October

It’s been a big year for Alaska Airlines, including a merger with Hawaiian Airlines and overhauling its Mileage Plan award program into a new, more robust joint program with Hawaiian called Atmos Rewards.

Now, Alaska Airlines is back in the news, though this announcement isn’t positive. Alaska’s partnerships with Singapore Airlines and LATAM, the South American giant, are getting slashed. The partnership with Singapore will be greatly reduced from its current form, while the LATAM partnership is going away altogether.

Here’s a closer look at what’s happening and when, giving you a final chance to take advantage of these partnerships in their current form — at least while you still can.

Alaska Airlines Scaling Down Partnerships With Singapore Airlines and LATAM

The dates and scale at which these partnerships with Alaska Airlines are changing vary, as first noticed by One Mile at a Time, so let’s look at each in turn.

Alaska-LATAM Partnership Ending

If you visit the partnership page, you’ll see a notice from Alaska Airlines: “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.”

There’s also a chart about what’s changing and when, as there are a few moving pieces here:

The website also notes that you’ll need to submit a missing points request for any flights after January 1, 2026, assuming you booked before August 31, 2025. You’ll need proof of your original booking date, and this message means the points earning won’t happen automatically.

Losing the ability to redeem Atmos Rewards points for LATAM flights is a definite bummer, as business class awards to South America were a real sweet spot here, providing high-quality value at 35,000 to 60,000 points per person each way, depending on how far you were flying.

LATAM has a solid business class with lie-flat seats on most of its aircraft flying to and from the U.S., and its new suites with doors are now flying to the U.S. as well. If you’re interested in using your Atmos Rewards points for these flights, you need to redeem by October 1, 2025.

Alaska-Singapore Partnership Ending Redemptions, Keeping Earnings

The partnership with Singapore Airlines also has bad news, though it’s not as drastic. The partnership page has the following notice: “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.”

One of the quirks of the Alaska Airlines Atmos Rewards program is that the number of points you earn on flights with partners depends on how you booked the ticket — with that other airline or with Alaska. For flights in 2026 and beyond, you won’t earn any points on Singapore Airlines flights credited to your Atmos Rewards account if you didn’t book that flight directly with Alaska.

Moreover, the ability to book Singapore Airlines flights with Atmos Rewards points will end on October 1, 2025, which has been a niche, though sometimes useful, option.

Why Are These Changes Happening?

The change to Alaska’s partnership with LATAM isn’t surprising, given that Delta has owned a stake in LATAM since 2019 — the same Delta that’s a major rival of Alaska Airlines in a fight for turf in Seattle (SEA). And this Delta stake is why LATAM broke off previous relationships with Oneworld partners like American Airlines — the same alliance that Alaska is in.

With Singapore Airlines, the reasoning isn’t so clear. Some part of the relationship must have made one (or both) of the airlines unhappy, so it’s undergoing a major cutback. The partnership with this Star Alliance airline has always been a bit of a surprise, and it will be a shell of its former self in the near future.

After October 1, 2025, you won’t be able to redeem Atmos Rewards points for LATAM or Singapore Airlines flights. However, you’ll at least have an option to keep earning Atmos Rewards points on Singapore Airlines flights going forward, though it’s not the greatest option for booking and earning, to be perfectly blunt.

Final Thoughts

Alaska Airlines has been known for its unique relationships, and that’s part of what makes the Atmos Rewards program so valuable. Partnerships outside its own alliance have been a trademark for the airline, giving members numerous options to earn and redeem points on a wide variety of airlines.

After October 1, 2025, however, the ability to redeem points on LATAM and Singapore Airlines flights will go away. As of January 1, 2026, the LATAM partnership will be done, and the Singapore partnership will be effectively done — even if it still exists on paper.