Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
You can get as far as SIN on DL metal, through NRT, and SIN is a very good airport.
I would not advise this. Sydney is much, much closer to NAN than SIN - a 4 hour flight versus a 10 hour flight. The great circle distance TPA-ATL-NRT-SIN-NAN is close to 16000 miles, whereas TPA-ATL-LAX-SYD-NAN is about 12000 miles. Going to Sydney (via LAX), one will basically overfly NAN on the way to SYD and then just has to backtrack.
The most direct via HNL (assuming that you don't want to take Fiji Airways from LAX) is only about 8000 miles (but again, high risk and potentially inconvenient).