Yeah it was economy but the dates were not flexible as these two tickets were actually for him and his girlfriend(I'm flying out of LAX on the same day but on ANA F with my girlfriend). Since I was dealing with three other people it wasn't worth it to try and explain that we should look at a bunch of FF programs to try and find cheaper tickets. One of the biggest benefits of transferable currency is that DW isn't always interested in watching me search for award availability on different partners for hours on end. This makes it simple.
