Regarding your Air miles: If you have Safeway grocery store in your area, check this out. Through their program. my wife has accumulated 17,527 miles. I have 19,652 miles. No charge card involved. Although, it is restricted to Alaska Airlines.
I don’t fly well and need O2 when I do, so they just build up. I might use them someday.
Use them for the next Tea PArty. I hear they are all the rage.