When Qantas used to (have to, before the 743's could go nonstop LAX-SYD) fly LAX-HNL-SYD, you could do Stopovers in HNL. I always used to do a 3-4 day stopover in HNL coming SYD-HNL-LAX with my parents. This was years ago (early/mid 80's). This was fine as long as it was ticketed international end-to-end.

I believe in some of the original QF promo material about the SYD-LAX-JFK run, they did say that part of the deal was you could do stopovers in LA. If my memory serves me right, back in those days we had some kind of sticker/card that ID'ed you as a domestic passenger, bypassing customs/immigration in LAX since we already cleared in HNL. You might want to try to get a hold of someone in LAX with QF.

And yes, if you could do a domestic LAX-JFK run on QF, the domestic's would probably see a large drop in their premimum traffic! 744 coast to coast, true international service, flat sleeper beds in F. Brings tears to my eyes!

[This message has been edited by SNA_Flyer (edited 10-24-2000).]