Originally Posted by
jlemon
4) Given the long standing United hub at SFO, one would think they were the airline operating this direct, no change of plane service from AKL. However, they were not, although UA did offer connecting service via LAX. Thus, it was another airline.....so please guess again!
jlemon: Thanks for the schedule history and your experiences flying TPAC. Let me give question 4 another go again. My guess for the airline is NZ. Now, I am taking another wild guess that the routing did not go through HNL at all. The routing probably was AKL-PPT-LAX-SFO. S2A has a giveaway in his answer. NZ used a Boeing 747-200 for the route, although my other guess is, NZ might have used a Boeing 767-200ER as well.