Originally Posted by
Often1
At HNL, very unlikely that the counter will even be open. So, this is not going to happen at all.
I'm pretty sure it will be open because there's another flight 2 hours before mine. I also learned this the hard way once at DFW when there's no one at the counter 4.5 hours prior, so this time I checked flight schedules to make sure this's at least a possibility.