OMAAT’s Mike had a follow-up comment that seemed to imply a routing like PHX-LAX-HNL, then HNL-LAX-?-DBV. He booked via HNL expecting to drop the LAX-HNL-LAX legs if things went south. However, the current policy provided by JonNYC says “to final destination using same connecting point”, so he was trying to get AAgents to do something against policy and that help explain the behaviors/answers of some of the AAgents. The lesson is to be aware you might have to go through whichever connecting point you pick, so don’t get too crazy.