Not pointless for me. I presently have several upcoming international J bookings with an advanced purchase, un-inflated for effect, retail value of just over $21,000.00 which I used 611K miles and $1800 to book.. This is not quite double of my usual annual mileage bookings as I'm taking a couple of extra people. This was mostly planned well in advance (10 months) and as is often the case, the ticket availability determined, in part, my travel dates. If I wanted to book my same flights now, It would be well north of a million miles with some legs unavailable.