Originally posted by LIH Prem:
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Contrast this to the free tickets I used for my wife and my other daughter on this trip. I transferred a Marriott award into 60k Delta miles, and got two free DL coach tickets between HNL and TPA. We didn't get to select the flights, ...
Huh? Unless I'm missing something, you can always request specific flights with FF award tickets. The difference between it and the Cap One FF program being discussed is with Cap One, you are looking at the pool of purchaseable seats, whereas for FF awards, it's the pool of award seats, which is going to be much less, and especially for Hawaii routes, much much tighter.
As an exercise, I'd suggest you price out the DL award tickets on delta.com, and divide the cost of the lowest price ticket by the 60k points you used to get it. Do the same for the tickets you purchased (subtracting what value you assign to the FF miles you'll earn for the flight). See which one offers the better value.
Jeff