Originally Posted by
nk15
My psychological limit is $2.5k for international J roundtrips, assuming there is either an ultra long haul (>12hours) each way, or two long hauls (>8-9hrs) each way. I think I have only paid $2.4k once for 24 hours in the air each way (and got 100kRDMs and 2 SWUs in return). For one long haul and one short/medium haul each way, my limit is around $1.7k
I could see myself perhaps paying up to $2.9k roundtrip, if requalification is at stake, or if it contains one ultra long haul and one long haul on QR each way...Like LAX-DOH-DPS, for example 
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My preferred limit is up to $1600, though....
Without being conscious of it, I had practiced close to what you had said.
One year when I was kind of way behind meeting re-qual for AA EXP, I grapped a OSL-DOH-AKL return for less than US$1,800 with QR in J.