Originally Posted by
daloosh
Instead, I suppose you could hold the miles for vacations and such where you are willing to drive to a farther airport, or make connections, to use your miles. Or send your friends and relatives around the world!
Always a multiple ticket option. R/T on DL to a UA hub on one ticket to position, then award R/T from there. Not the quickest, but at least you could burn some miles off instead of letting them rot. (If you can find award space, of course.)