I rarely fly AA but flew them down to Cabo in 2019. When the plane landed back in the US of A the flight attendant was going down the aisle asking people to apply for a AA credit card, 60k with no spend minimum.
I jumped all over it, spent like $100 on the card just to be safe then saw that the points hit closed it.
Due to Covid I had kind of forgot I had them until I got an email a couple of months ago saying they expired on december 30th.
Luckily our katz are kicking ass so I just went ahead and booked 2 MCI/DFW round trip tickets for the weekend of the big12 championship game for 58k points. My thinking is that once we officially clench the berth the prices will go up and I would have to use real money so I might as well book them now.