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Originally Posted by cblaisd
Rural (which is pretty much almost everything other than Honolulu) Hawai`i is still very much oriented to "plantation time." Things shut down early (by mainland urban standards) but things are moving waaaaay early in the morning. (I once had someone -- a retired sugar plantation worker who was in the fields no later than 6am each day -- call me at 6:30 a.m. and said "I knew you like to sleep late, so I waited to call you.")
I find it rather odd that HA would have later flights to and from OGG and LIH (leaving HNL around 9:45 ish) but not KOA and ITO (last ones leave before 8ish). I suppose it's really a matter of demand and length of flight and the fact that there's probably a lot less folks connecting to ITO/KOA than OGG/LIH.