7 Big Atmos Oddities (Alaska's new rewards program) | Frequent Miler on the Air Ep320 | 8-22-25
Frequent Miler on the Air
Frequent Miler
4.9 • 640 Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2025
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
In today's podcast episode, we unlock the LifeMiles mystery, look at Etihad's magical mystery refund policy, and examine 7 surprising oddities of Alaska's new rewards program, "Atmos".
Giant Mailbag
(02:02) - LifeMiles cancellations
Card News
(11:23) - Chase will be ending the ability to transfer Ultimate Rewards Points to Emirates Skywards as of 10/16/25.
(15:20) - 400 properties added to Amex Fine Hotels & Resorts and The Hotel Collection
Awards, Points, and More
(18:20) - Nick: Canceling Etihad awards
(29:38) - Accessing the Admirals Club with Strata Elite passes
(32:36) - Frontier Gold for $69 through 2026 (maybe available through 9/9/25)
Main Event: 7 Big Atmos Oddities (Alaska's new rewards program)
(35:15) - Alaska MileagePlan is now Atmos Rewards
(37:18) - The big picture
(42:37) - Choose how you earn (coming in 2026)
(53:29) - Top status (Titanium) will offer complimentary international business class upgrades
(57:02) - Summit Visa Infinite Surprises/Oddities: Global Companion Awards
Learn more about Alaska’s Atmos™ Rewards Summit Visa Infinite® card here: https://frequentmiler.com/alaskas-atmos-rewards-summit-visa-infinite-card-review/
(1:05:39) - Summit Visa Infinite Surprises/Oddities: Free Points sharing
(1:07:52) - Summit Visa Infinite Surprises/Oddities: $50 Instant Travel Delay Credit
(1:11:13) - Summit Visa Infinite Surprises/Oddities: Exclusive Lounge Bar Program: 2 complimentary signature cocktails or a selection from the elevated bar menu upon showing your Atmos™ Rewards Summit Visa Infinite® card
(1:13:07) - Summit Visa Infinite Surprises/Oddities: 3x International spend
Question of the Week
(1:17:20) - Are Chase Sapphire Reserve® Card holders getting charged more for The Edit by Chase Travel℠bookings than Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card holders?
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Music Credit – “Ocean Deep” by Annie Yoder
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| 0:00.0 | This is a Voyescape podcast. You can find all of our travel podcasts from around the world at |
| 0:07.1 | voyescape.com. On today's episode, we unlock the Life Miles mystery. We look at Etihad's |
| 0:16.8 | magical mystery refund policy. And at most, we cover seven Atmos oddities. |
| 0:24.1 | Frequent Miler on the air starts now. |
| 0:28.0 | Today's main event, seven big Atmos oddities. Atmos is Alaska Mileage Plan's new program. |
| 0:36.3 | There's no more Alaska Milage Plan. |
| 0:38.0 | It's now Atmos Rewards. |
| 0:40.5 | And that all happened on Wednesday, which is yesterday as we're recording this. |
| 0:46.3 | And that was pretty cool because last week we asked loyalty programs, credit card companies, and everyone to stop revealing big news on Thursdays and start revealing it on Wednesdays. |
| 0:58.7 | Clearly, Alaska was listening. |
| 1:01.8 | Thank you, Alaska. |
| 1:03.2 | Yeah, thank you. |
| 1:04.2 | All the big news broke yesterday on Wednesday as we're recording this. |
| 1:08.5 | And so that was awesome. |
| 1:11.0 | So we had a whole day to absorb all the big news, which was a lot, a lot. |
| 1:16.9 | And I'll tell you this. |
| 1:18.4 | We'll get into details in the main event. |
| 1:20.2 | But last week I talked about how a briefing by aeroplane, Air Canada Airplane, |
| 1:26.3 | literally put me to sleep. There is nothing about |
| 1:30.2 | Alaska's news that made me sleepy. It's really... |
| 1:32.9 | Alaska, woke you right up, huh? Yeah. Like it or hate it, the changes, there's nothing sleepy |
| 1:37.7 | about these changes. No, no, that'll be interesting to discuss today because I think that this is |
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