Wanted to burn exactly 60k miles and today booked an award from Europe to DYU (Dushanbe), Tajikistan.

This is consistently a pricey route in the TK network, due to lack of competition, and even 6 months out Y is selling at ~900€ and J at 2.140€.

Therefore I consider 60k miles in J plus 290€ in taxes a good value, especially since I wanted to go anyway to cover another weird country in my collection.
Unexpected bonus is to be ticketed online and no visit to the nearest TK office is needed.
Not sure why.
Just an idea.