 they can be redeemed for flights or other perks like to pay for a bag fees possibly or to use for an upgrade or that sort of thing so you're really just leaving money on the table if you don't have a frequent flyer account so how about managing these miles on an account that i don't use frequently can that be a pain to keep track of it can be a little bit of a pain but the nice thing is a lot of airlines don't let their miles expire and so