Originally Posted by
mathprof
HNL is my home airport too but my experience there has been the opposite. About half of the time, I have had to wait 30 minutes at baggage claim before the first bag comes up. Might be because I have often had the bad luck of landing second of two flights that landed within minutes of each other (from LAX and SFO).
Visit the HNL lounge on arrival to use the facilities and get a drink. Then walk down to baggage claim 31 and my bags are usually there. We just got back from Maui on Southwest last week. I waited almost an hour for our bags to arrive and it was a 20 min flight!