I am thinking about doing this run starting out of IAH sometime this year. I probably can't go until after the summer, so hopefully there are deals August-December.
I will be doing it to get over the PQD requirement to make 1K. Projecting out my spend for this year, it looks like I will be right around 10K & need about 2K more to get over the top. I am thinking of going out in Economy & returning in Business. I priced out a ticket and it comes in just over 2K so that should do the trick. Throw in 1K in ETC's & Travel Bank funds & it will only cost me about 1K out of pocket.