I agree 100%. This is for company travel, so I used the company travel agent. I did a lot of research and asked a lot of questions. Al B, the TA and older FT threads gave a lot of answers. ANA has some good info on the *A airpasses on thier web site here. The ANA web site shows all the airpass prices - which is what got my attention. There is also some great info on the airpass rules on FT (also posted by Al B) here.

The bottom line for this booking is that I learned the rules (so did the TA), selected most of the flights and she booked them.