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Old Jan 15, 2019 | 9:52 am
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Originally Posted by Phil Level
Last 3 or 4 years I've taken the 777 LAX-HNL, but I no longer see it as an option. Now I only see 3 flights per day LAX-HNL and all on 757. The early flights all appear to be the old 24F config, while the LAX 5PM appears to be 16J config with lay-flat, but arriving HNL at 9PM doesn't work so well for our schedule. So we are trying HA which departs LAX 10AM and arrives HNL at 2PM.

In years past, I often got the upgrade with an RPU, but that also changed (for the worse).
Earlier in the year SFO-HNL, SFO_KOA and SFO-OGG were the only routes I was clearing my instruments (GPU/RPUs) but for the past 6 months things have gotten tougher as tourism returned to the Islands. Had it not been for the Hawaii runs I don't think I would have cleared 3 instruments all year. I have been so frustrated I have jumped ship and have been using AS in and out of the Islands on my 2019 trips.
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