My ex personally has over 1.3 million AAdvantage miles, the last time I looked at his account.

He would rather fly revenue rather than redeem. And he is not nearly savvy enough or have the patience to redeem anything on CX F. Even when it made sense to redeem, he would fork out cash.


Lets just say he lives for American Airlines. He's keeping them and I quote " just to have", and goes through extreme measures to earn them. Including : Flying when he is sick, crazy routes, and flying (LAX->NYC) via LAX-DFW-ORD-EWR, all on an MD-80, LAX-DFW a red eye C.C . Crazy.

At that point, I turned my United First p.s seat into a fully flat bed, and bid him adieu....

I personally use and burn, frequently, and rarely have over 300K Onepass miles at any one time. Though, I have had times when I've only had 5K.