Originally Posted by
FlyingMoose
You can use your points to buy cash+points ticket and with a million, pretty much offset the majority of the ticket fees. The benefit is that you'll not be relying on award availability. Have you looked at that option?
That may be the benefit, but it’s probably going to come at a rather high cost. If going down this high cost way, consider booking it one passenger at a time — that is so as to possibly lower costs a bit below the still high cost.