Originally Posted by The Boz View Post
So the trick is to always book 2 one way awards, this way you can occasionally check if one has went down. On AA you can cancel it, the miles return to your account immediately and rebook at the lower rate. If you book a RT, one may have gone down but the other went up so you can’t take advantage of it. I’ve saved tens of thousands of miles over the years doing this.
Yep that's exactly what I've been doing with SW for years. I agree with all that you've said. We have to go to Asia at least every couple years so we will just buy cheap bags for that because quite often one of them will get absolutely destroyed on the trip. Domestic flights we generally will not check bags at all if we can avoid it. Vegas trips I can do with one backpack, but my wife is of course more challenged than me by this policy.