Originally Posted by aaupgrade

Hawaii flights are a bit of an anomaly. There are plenty of P fares but no A fares, even 330 days out. F7 P7 A0 In essence meaning no one can use mileage or SWU upgrades or book on AONEn or DONEn RTW fares or ACIRnn or DCIRnn Circle Pacific fares.

Whereas, ANC flights have A fare availability, but you need to book within a few months of ANC seasonal summer schedules being released in November/early December. I booked mine last December on my AONE4 for this coming summer. If you go look at availability for ANC flights for this summer you will find that many flights are sold out, F0. F0 A0 P0

P fares are usually deep discounted F class, except for Hawaii flights where it is normal discounted first class; and still rather high priced IMO. But if the demand is there, which it appears to be, then AA is going for it, at least until the next recession.

It is interesting that when EF lists fare codes they are listed with P fare in second position for Hawaii flights and A fare code in the second position for ANC flights.

Note: They do release A inventory on Hawaii flights closer to departure date. For example DFW-HNL for example today's AA 123 flight has F2 P2 A1. One flight on Friday, Sunday, and Monday has A inventory available. Return flights for Tuesday, Thursday and Monday of next week have A inventory available. It appears that 3 weeks to the day is the magic number as A inventory is zeroed out from July 12 onward.

OP: If you want to attempt to book Hawaii on your DONEn ticket, I would book L inventory with plans to change it to A inventory and most likely the date and flight too, when A inventory becomes available. Subscribe to EF and set alerts for A inventory >0 for flights on or around your preferred travel dates. This would allow you to book your onward flight to Asia or SWP, which if you were to wait, D inventory may not be available 3 weeks prior to travel. I would also recommend booking refundable and fully cancelled hotel reservations for multiple arrival dates, or book 1 night stays. Same goes for car rentals.