Originally Posted by
Calchas
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.
True, but I doubt that the intra-US traffic for ANC-HNL would be sufficient to make an otherwise unfeasible service.
I think LHR-HNL would work better as a "holiday" service once or twice a week from LGW, anyway. Or actually, it sounds like something that only a charter airline would be interested in.
I think there must be several tens of destinations in North America that BA would be interested in serving before they would get around to instituting an HNL service.