I'm glad to see so many leisure flyers! I am a 100% leisure flyer and my husband is about 50/50 with 3 or 4 business trips/year. I collect miles anyway I can but try not to spend extra money to do it. I've never considered mileage runs. My goal is not to buy a ticket over $250.
We took 4 family members to Hawaii over Christmas using up our stash of UA miles - finally! I used AA and Delta (thanks to Diet Coke) to take 6 of us to the Caymans for spring break. Now I'm busy planning for next year's spring break. I have AA tickets on hold to both Hawaii and Cancun... Will have to choose soon.
I have about 200,000 AA miles, 60,000 Delta, 25,000 CO and some orphans.
Deb