I recall the award a bit differently. If you redeemed 100K for an international first class award, you got an upgrade to first good on a purchased coach ticket (any published fare) that could be used for a companion ticket or by you alone at some other time. Since I was traveling by myself frequently on business to Europe I piled up the miles but wasn't flying first on the company's money. I did use the awards several times when we took vacations together, though, which kind of discouraged my wife's willingness to fly coach internationally afterwards. I rolled the last couple hundred thou into AA when TWA got bought, but there's nothing close to that old award out htere now.