Best use of 20K miles?

A simple question from a newbie:

After collecting miles for years and finally using most of them this summer, I'm left with 11K miles, which I could top up to 20K with Amex Membership rewards... so given I'm not likely to earn many miles in the foreseeable future, whats the best use of these?

D

[mcmbenjamin]

Upgrade to PE (from some booking classes) or a for 12,500 miles use a VS award on BMI to UK, Belgium, France, Netherlands, or Dublin. This would require less miles to be transfered from AmEx.

[preiffer]

OR get an S class PE ticket, and you have enough to upgrade to Upper one-way.

Welcome to the forum, by the way [y]

Myself and the family are in a similar position where each of us has around 20k miles. I'm thinking along the lines of using them for a one off upgrade either E-PE or (one way) PE-UC as we have a "significant" year coming up with several landmark family events for which it would be worth blowing the miles as a celebration.

Paul

thanks for all the advice guys.

i'll have to think about it all and maybe try and top the miles up somewhow to buy a ow upper award because to use the miles to upgrade seems expensive because of the class it must be booked in to be eligible. from what i can see, for not much more you could buy the ticket in the desired class and earn miles on it rather than spend them...

or am i missing something?

Originally posted by denhoward
thanks for all the advice guys.

i'll have to think about it all and maybe try and top the miles up somewhow to buy a ow upper award because to use the miles to upgrade seems expensive because of the class it must be booked in to be eligible. from what i can see, for not much more you could buy the ticket in the desired class and earn miles on it rather than spend them...

or am i missing something?

[:?] Interesting point. I must admit I hadn't factored in that bit of the equation. More research methinks.

Paul