I have been "stockpiling" my AA points for the future. Which future, I don't know. Either for retirement so wife and I can get away and enjoy some travels, or for some major vacation with wife, me, and 3 kids (when they are teens). I currently have 790k AA miles and add an average of 70k per year. Provided the program is still around in 15 years, I should have enough miles to do some mighty nice traveling, perhaps an around-the-world trip, might even take the wife .

For immediate or domestic travel to family, I have 310k DL points. Wife has 130k in CO. I have 44k UA and will get that to 50k for two 25k domestic tickets. Wife has 50k AA for same purpose. She gets AA Platinum and CO Silver every year for biz travels so those accumulated miles are used for the family trips. We've burned thru 475k in UA, DL, & NWA points over the past year for family trips.