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Home » Alaska Airlines » Alaska’s New Atmos Summit Card Is The Best Airline Credit Card We’ve Seen In Years
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Alaska’s New Atmos Summit Card Is The Best Airline Credit Card We’ve Seen In Years

Matthew Klint Posted onAugust 20, 2025August 20, 2025 7 Comments
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Link: Apply now for the Atmos™ Rewards Summit Visa Infinite® Credit Card

Alaska Airlines just raised the stakes in the premium card game. With the new Atmos Rewards Summit Visa Infinite, Alaska is finally offering a premium card product that ties valuable benefits to actual flying and avoids the coupon-book gimmicks of its competitors.

Alaska’s Atmos Summit Card Delivers World-Class Benefits For Frequent Flyers

Alaska and Hawaiian just combined their loyalty programs into Atmos Rewards and launched a premium card that’s worthy of consideration. The Atmos Rewards Summit Visa Infinite, with a $395 annual fee, offers a unique value proposition that I have not seen in other premium and airline co-branded credit cards, especially as top-tier credit cards like Chase Sapphire Reserve and American Express Platinum embrace tedious coupon-book style discounts to justify higher annual fees.

Best-In-Class Companion Award

The signature perk here is the Global Companion Award. Every card anniversary you receive a 25,000-point certificate that can be applied toward a companion award on Alaska, Hawaiian, or partners (subject to award space for two). Heavier spenders who put $60,000 on the card in a year earn an additional 100,000-point companion award.

On the status front, the card grants an automatic 10,000 status points each anniversary and earns one status point per $2 in spend, accelerating progress toward Atmos elite tiers. That’s the fastest path to elite tiers I’ve seen.


> Read More: Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan Becomes Atmos Rewards – A Detailed Guide


High Earning in Travel Categories, Including Foreign Purchases

The card delivers 3x points on foreign purchases, dining, and Alaska/Hawaiian airfare, with the foreign purchase bonus a rare perk that outpaces many rivals. Plus, if you’re a Bank of America customer, there’s a 10% bonus on all points earned.

What does a foreign purchase mean? It includes purchases made in a foreign currency and purchases made in USD if the transaction is processed outside of the United States. That sort of innovation encourages travel…I love it. It’s also a great card for European residents to pick up for everyday spending if they have a US Social Security number.

Other Top-Tier Perks

Other generous card perks include:

  • Eight Alaska Lounge day passes per year (two per quarter), valid for the cardholder plus accompanying children on a same-day eligible flight.
  • Eight inflight Wi-Fi passes per year (two per quarter), each valid for one flight.
  • Partner award booking fee waiver on the primary cardholder’s account (saves the typical per-person, one-way fee on partner redemptions).
  • Instant $50 travel delay credit on Alaska flights delayed 2+ hours or canceled within 24 hours of departure.
  • Same-day confirmed change fee waiver (fare rules apply and Saver fares excluded).
  • First checked bag free and preferred boarding for the cardholder and up to six companions on the same reservation when airfare is purchased with the card.
  • Upgrade priority consideration for elites holding the card.
  • Free points sharing with up to 10 linked Atmos accounts; hotel transfer options to select partners.

Sign-Up Bonus

When you spend $6,000 on the card within the first 90 days of opening this card, you earn:

  • 100,000 Atmos Rewards points
  • 25,000-point Global Companion Award (normally earned on each card anniversary with no spending requirement)

Is the Fee Worth It?

In a word, yes. especially if you travel internationally or value companion awards even beyond the 100K sign-up bonus. Compared to other $395+ airline cards from American, Delta, or United, this delivers the best overall benefits. Sure, lounge access is capped, but this card hits the sweet spot between value and substance and Alaska Airlines already grants lounge access when you’re flying first class on flights longer than 2,000 miles.

CONCLUSION

Whether you’re a regular Alaska/Hawaiian customer or not, the Summit card is a premium, globally rewarding airline card. It’s one of the best airline card launches we’ve seen in years: generous, practical, and designed for real frequent travelers without the sort of gimmicks I have begun to loathe.

For a $395 annual fee, the anniversary 25k companion award alone can offset much of the cost if you redeem regularly, and the earn structure is genuinely useful for travelers who spend abroad and dine out. Add in status acceleration, lounge/Wi-Fi passes, fee waivers, and upgrade priority, and this is the rare premium airline card that delivers value on both light and heavy spend. If you fly Alaska or Hawaiian (or want flexible partner award options) this card deserves a hard look.

Will you sign up for the new Atmos Rewards Summit Card?

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Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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7 Comments

  1. Lukas Reply
    August 20, 2025 at 4:11 pm

    Buying a car in Europe for $71,000, so I’ll get a hefty amount of points. 100,000 + 5,000 (email) + 213,000 = 318.000 Atmos points and one 100,000 point companion certificate. Great SUB!

  2. Southworst Airlines Reply
    August 20, 2025 at 7:19 pm

    I fly Alaska often, so this is great news to me. Alaska could move up to #1, past jetBlue.

  3. Dave Edwards Reply
    August 21, 2025 at 12:41 am

    What the F? It’s not even Sunday and I’m seeing grifting here.

    Dude, don’t sink yourself to Kyle’s level. And I don’t mean at the buffet on the cruises he takes for reviews.

    Next thing you’ll be blowing guys and coke like TPG (and Aaron on the former obviously, no clue on the latter).

    • Aaron Reply
      August 21, 2025 at 3:43 am

      How can we, when you’re clearly doing all the blowing yourself, of men and powder?

  4. Esquiar Reply
    August 21, 2025 at 2:07 am

    It’s a great card but I loathe the design. It fills me with existential dread. If I stare at it too long, I hear the voices of my ancestors trapped inside the strange alien artifact. You tell me it’s an airplane window, but that thing is not allowed inside my house

    • Lukas Reply
      August 21, 2025 at 3:25 am

      Yeah, that design is TERRIBLE. I thought it was AI slop but then when someone pointed out that it’s an airplane window I finally saw it. Terrible.

  5. Mr. Marcus Reply
    August 21, 2025 at 10:03 pm

    I’m interested, and potentially could use Alaska more in the coming years, but trying to figure out the program without much experience flying the airline leaves me with a lot of questions. The difference between points and status points isn’t clear to me.

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