Originally Posted by dajoip

Sorry, let me clarify. I live in Michigan, but I have the SW Companion Pass so I can easily position myself on the West Coast, where I could get much better value on flights to Hawaii. If better options were available to me from Michigan, that'd be great too. But, with it only costing me ~16-20k WN miles to get both of us to the West Coast and the many more options to Hawaii from there, I thought that might be a better/easier solution.

I'd absolutely love to find the 763 DFW-OGG as a MileSAAver on dates that I can use. I actually just saw two dates with this availability yesterday, but it was in the middle of July and we can't do that. I'll keep looking for this availability, but in the meantime I'm interested in what people consider to be the best option (AA/AS/HA) to Hawaii from the West Coast, both in terms of product and pricing. Both my wife and I have always flown coach, so we thought it'd be fun to use some extra miles and experience Business/First, if it was a good product. We also have ~800k AA miles from the Citi Exec cards, so we've got plenty to burn.