Originally Posted by
asu-ua772
As an aside...I live near DCA, yet fly HA's JFK-HNL regularly and will usually book a separate DL/AA DCA-JFK flight (and vice versa) to "connect" to HA. I book the DL/AA ticket knowing full-well that if HA changes the time/date causing things to misalign with my other flight, I have to be prepared to "write off" the DL/AA ticket and get up to JFK (or back to DCA) a different way...even if it means having to spend the night in NYC.
Out of curiosity, why? I've never been able to convince myself that using HA to get to DC makes sense, and I live in HI.