Originally Posted by HNLbasedFlyer

Tahiti, Australia, and New Zealand are the only routes that actually provide a reasonable break.

You don't save a heck of lot to Asia - While Hawaii is west of the US, and looks on a map to be much closer to Asia, the fact is that it is also so far south negates a lot of that time savings.

You can fly nonstop BOS-TYO in 13h 50m - flight time HNL-TYO is still 8h 30m, so you'd be flying 11 hours to Hawaii - and still have a long flight ahead of you to get to Tokyo.