I went out of my way this year to ensure I hit 1K, because I know i will be traveling a bunch next year with economy class paid for by my company, which I would then have to use my GPU's to upgrade. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't even bother. I was only hoping to hit 75K this year, but I moved to Japan and was able to get out of the PQD waiver. I then spent about $1500 on a J class ticket to hawaii, now doing a bunch of small domestic flights within japan to hit the 100K mark. out of my own pocket I spent about $2300-2400 that I wouldn't have spent otherwise to hit 100K. I would have used miles to redeem the domestic japan flights and probably would have flown economy to hawaii for half that price or not bother going.... so yeah I think I got suckered in this time