Originally Posted by
serfty
Your problem is finding an eligible flight from HNL to the USA on Dec 24th.
All AA flights to DFW, SFO and LAX are A0 on that day so you can't book a A/DONEx and travel in the front cabin. L7's abound so you could downgrade.
"A" is also upgrade inventory on AA. The seat maps for the 24th (HNL-LAX, HNL-SFO, HNL-DFW, OGG-LAX etc.) are wide open in F, so I'd be surprised if the AA RTW desk couldn't get RM to release one to the OP. LAX-HNL, well, that would be another story...