From the early sixties through to at least the mid- or late seventies, if not beyond (not sure when the routes stopped). BOAC had a transpacific route, via JFK, SFO/LAX, HNL, first to Tokyo and Hong Kong, later to Australia, for many years during that era, flying 707s and VC10s.
Flying to Australia, flights would leave LAX in the early evening, and because of the westward direction, it was a very long night flight via HNL and NAD, arriving in SYD in the early morning. A friend of mine who did that trip from the UK commented to me at the time: "I thought I'd died and gone to hell. The night just wouldn't end."