Originally Posted by
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Very unlikely as yields connecting mainland through HNL to the Asia/Pacific have never been good and to gain approval, they will have to cut quite a bit of the overlap. So what is gained by consumers aside from higher prices to Hawaii and disgruntled employees who find themselves forced to relocate to SEA or saying goodbye to their jobs?
As a SAN based flyer, I will take SAN-HNL-SYD any day ending in Y. My only other choices are drive to LAX for LAX-SYD on Qantas, or AA SAN-DFW-SYD.
Just one example.
Same for Japan (even though we have direct, the prices are insane on JL) and Korea.
In addition, since I do defense work, going to some of the smaller islands in the Pacific is a thing. Now I will be doing it on AAG metal and earning miles and holding status.