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Originally Posted by flyingpharmd (Post 7504436)

I received a Concorde round-trip flight JFK to LHR as a company award one year. It was 1993 and the flight coupon said the trip was $16,000. I have no way of knowing if that was the real cost or not, but it sure scared the hell out of me 24 years ago:eek: .

What year are you living in? :p

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Originally Posted by Rabidstoat (Post 7504419)

I spent close to $9000 on a One World RTW in J a few years ago.

It was interesting in that it was over the max limit on both my credit cards, so I had to get the money out of the bank in cash and walk it to the desk. It was quite a production retrieving so much of my own money in cash...

Something doesn't add up here. My first card, when I was in high school/freshman in college (don't recall), had a limit of about that much. The thing is I was not making any $$ (maybe a few $k over the summer, but that's it) and had no real credit history to speak of. Maybe the bank messed up the location of the decimal point in my favor. :)

You sure they didn't just reject the charge as suspicious? If you've got that much cash on hand... [fill in the blanks about credit limits]

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Originally Posted by MapleLeaf (Post 7505192)

$16,000 for a ticket that took me around North America, into the Canadian Arctic (all in J) but not overseas... this was in 2001.

$16k for J and not even leaving North America!? USD or CAD? Either way, it would be interesting to hear the exact routing!

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Originally Posted by ralfp (Post 7505789)

That was definitely a mistake then. When I went to college I also got CC's (Discover, Citibank MC) and the former had a credit limit of $500 and the latter had $900. It took several years after school with a solid job to get to the $9k mark.

Think about it - a college kid with no steady job is a huge unknown. They want to suck you in to their high fees but not with too much risk. No way you got $9k out of the blue, unless it was a major mistake on their part.