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# ICYMI: Atmos Rewards Raises Partner Award Booking Fees by 60%
- URL: https://www.pnm.now/alaska-atmos-partner-award-fee-increase/
- Published: 2026-07-06T18:00:33.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-06T18:00:33.000Z
- Description: Alaska's Atmos Rewards raised its partner award booking fee to $20 per person, each direction. Here's what changed and how to avoid it.
- Author: Andrew Kunesh
- Tags: airlines, verified

Alaska Airlines' Atmos Rewards quietly made partner awards more expensive earlier this month.

Effective July 1, 2026, the partner award booking fee jumped from $12.50 to $20 per person, each direction. This is a whopping 60% increase. The fee applies whenever you redeem Atmos points on a partner airline such as American Airlines, British Airways, or Japan Airlines.

Awards on Alaska and Hawaiian flights are unaffected — those only have standard government taxes starting at $5.60 each way. But for partner redemptions, a round-trip partner award now carries $40 in fees per person, so a family of four pays $160 in booking fees alone before taxes.

![A screenshot of an Atmos Rewards awards ticket on American Airlines](https://storage.ghost.io/c/63/5e/635e69b4-9fd0-41a2-8300-77063d35058e/content/images/2026/07/A-screenshot-of-an-Atmos-Rewards-awards-ticket-on-American-Airlines.png)

Image credit: Alaska Airlines

There's one way around paying this fee. The Atmos Rewards Summit Visa Infinite card waives the partner award booking fee entirely.

Andrew's Take 

![Andrew Kunesh](https://www.pnm.now/assets/built/ak-headshot.png) 

Atmos is still one of the best programs going — 4,500-point short-haul partner awards and 45,000-point transatlantic business class tickets are two of my favorite redemptions. But $40 in round-trip fees per person stings most on exactly those cheap short-haul redemptions, where the fee can eat up a significant portion of the ticket's value. If you redeem on partners more than a couple times a year, the Summit card is worth considering for the fee waiver.

Source: [Alaska Airlines](https://www.alaskaair.com/?ref=pnm.now)