Let me make myself a little more clear, I'm actually not ONLY in it for the miles, the reason I will take 10 days off is because I will be going on this trip with my fiancee, so not only are the miles important, but also we'd like to make a decent trip out of it as well.

Sadly though, we are still young, so spending 400+500$ x2 more on a *A ticket, when there are other options (QR to DXB is only ~550$ RT compared to the 1000$ TG ticket), probably isn't the best for our budget right now.