Originally Posted by
christep
Hawaii has been fully part of the USA since 1959.
Right, but then again "so what"? As I am sure you know, for the purpose of airline rules Mexico City may or may not be in North America, the US and Canada are sometimes one country, and so on...
What is your evidence for your assertion?
This is information I got from a couple of different travel agents as recent as last year (all other info I got was correct so I had no good reason to doubt this particular piece). But they may have been wrong (I ended up booking itineraries not including any US mainland - Hawaii flights). Actually, that would be good news to me...