Originally Posted by nkedel

While American metal into Manila would be great, there are better fish to fry if they start going onwards in Asia ... I'd settle for codeshares rather than reduced miles on JL or no miles on CX!

For that matter, it would be good to be be able to book flights out of MNL on AA.com -- while you can book a regular round trip into/out of MNL on AA.com, and you can book a multi-city trip INTO MNL (eg SFO-MNL/BKK-SFO) you cannot book a multi-city with a leg that departs from MNL or a round trip/one way starting in MNL -- with the usual error (" This city is not available on AA.com. For assistance, please contact AA Reservations. ")

Not sure if this is technical or regulatory. The lack of codeshares suggests it might be the latter, especially when there are CX and JL codeshares to pretty much every other major city reachable non-stop from HKG or one of the TYO airports.

To the original question, even PAL doesn't fly nonstop from the mainland US to MNL -- they do a stop in Guam (although they fly nonstop in the opposite direction MNL to LAX, and both PAL and Hawaiian do HNL-MNL non-stop.)