Originally Posted by
cynicalmoose
BA could make an LHR-ANC-HNL route work and try to pick up some of the oil trade.
BA is not permitted to transport passengers wholly within the United States due to anti-cabotage federal law. In effect they cannot pick up passengers at ANC for transport to HNL, and any passengers collected at HNL cannot not disembark at ANC. It is difficult to imagine the economics of that route would work out without the intra-US traffic.