Originally Posted by
Happy
I would rather use the 2.5 Millions AA miles for CX F or EY F... they worth a lot more than $32K to me, not to mention the possibility of coming out empty-handed except the thrills.

I hardly have come up empty handed. You are singing to the choir about flying being the best use of miles, but I hit 14 million lifetime on United this weekend, I have earned over 50 million miles and those 3 things were all purchased for a total of less than 1% of my miles.