"Blowing through the PQD requirement? Not a chance. Maybe for some, but I reckon for MANY, MANY current 1Ks, the $24K is way out of realistic reach.
I do maybe 12 to 14 TPAC RT/year, and have only ever been at >$24K spend once in the last 10 years. Normally hovers around $15K to $18K."


Interesting....my reaction is because I'm East Coast based, I hadn't considered West Coast. Its really easy to spend $6-9K R/T to BKK, ICN, MNL, with the higher values occurring if I fly back to the US from ICN. Still have not quite figured out why thats the case with ICN specifically.