hey all, i have 160k but I work full time so i'm trying to understand the benefit to using the miles for a oneworld 35-50 mile award trip. The most I can get off from work at one time is 3 weeks..hardly enough time to travel 10-16 segments and enjoy it. Am I missing something or would it be smarter to use my miles indy? i.e. one trip to tokyo (50k), two trips to Europe (40k), one trip to china (70k)

just trying to understand the reasoning for using a 160k oneworld award travel unless you're retired or self employeed. i have enough miles with us airways to do south america or RT inside africa and i spent 55k w/united on an open leg to italy for 2012 so i've pretty much done everything besides africa and india at this point.