I got the message about the need to burn about a year ago. So I have flown 137500 miles of redemptions flights in the past year. I have 150000 miles worth of flights booked but not yet flown. I have 125000 miles in my account waiting to be spent. My problem (and I know others would love to have my problem) is that I have run out of the money needed to make best use of the miles. By the end of it, I will have spent a year or two jetting around from youth hostel to youth hostel in F, hoping the supper of caviar and lobster fills me up after lunching in hawker markets.

And then, in a year's time, no more premium cabin travel. Ever.

Damn - these miles were supposed to be spent sparingly over many, many years.