The first offense, while against the county's policy, is minor many companies allow employees to spend miles racked up on business trips for personal travel.
You could spend miles for magazine subscriptions, donate them to charity or, in a few cases, purchase merchandise in an exchange that often doesn't quite add up (17,000 miles for a coffee maker?).
If you would rather spend miles than cash, or maybe a combination of the two, miles can be most valuable when redeemed for expensive cash flights.
In, Ethiopian Airlines' frequent flyer programme Shebamiles and Lufthansa's Miles & More entered into partnership, allowing members of each programme to earn and spend miles on both airlines' networks.
Finally, if you don't have enough miles for your trip, don't want to buy more miles and want to be done with your association with that airline, you can often spend miles on merchandise, such as a Coach crossbody pouch for 21,600 miles or a leather massage chair for 473,200 on United.
The threat of corruption is ever-present in areas like government spending, where miles of red tape, billions in assets, and a legitimate need for secrecy at times presents a potential trifecta for would-be defrauders.
Emirates allows its passengers to spend their miles at football games involving its sponsorship partners.
Instead, I had to spend 50,000 miles for that same ticket, which would yield just 0.7 cents per mile.
But one day last summer, we took a nine-mile hike along a lazy river and spent six miles of it in silence, mutually rejecting the superfluousness of words.
I spend 10,000 miles a month in an airplane, and 90 percent of what I go and look at is what I've been able to mine here.
