I'm not surprised HA would introduce the A330 on the LAX-HNL route, which seems to be their most popular long haul route. I'd wish however, that they should have mixed their 330 fleet with a combination of 200 and 300 series models. For example, the A330-300 would have been a better match flying on the LAX-HNL route, where range is secondary to capacity. An A330-300 could easily carry 294 pax, just like HA's A330-200s, but with 2-4-2 seating and not with 3-3-3 seating as currently proposed. The A330-200s typically seat 278 pax with 2-4-2 seating. However, HA, wanting to standardize the A330-200s longer range while cramming more seats to maintain a reasonable fare structure has opt for the A330-300s seating capacity in a 200 series airframe.

As an earlier post stated, an HNL-FLL route is really thinking out of the box. HNL and FLL are two competing destination markets. HNL captures the west, northwest and midwest tourist markets. FLL, OTOH, captures some of the western, midwestern, eastern and southern markets. HA would do better to fly HNL-DFW and HNL-ORD and then develop code share services east from there. Even HNL-IAD or HNL-JFK may be a better option for the A330s if HA can develop code sharing flights to Europe from those airports.