I emptied a whole load a few weeks ago. My family and I are flying NY to HKG very soon using six 70k awards plus one 140k (of course I'm selfish and put myself in F!) Did this 1 month in advance of departure
So I used up 560k in one day. I was surprised to get so many award seats on a HEAVY travelled week on AA and CX but after all the excitement, I realized that my goal of accumulating 1MM miles in my account (just for fun, mind you) has to start again as I am now down to "only" 380k in my account. I can't wait for them to offer a new Triple mile bonus or AANYC bonus so I have an incentive to rack up some more serious mileage!
I am hopelessly addicted to this AAdvantage program