If/when Hawaiian Airlines joins oneworld I assume you can include HNL-PPT-HNL in a oneworld explorer and this will be counted in TC3 and would limit you to 2 more segments in South West Pacific? This could be an issue I guess, are the rules (more segments in South West Pacific) likely to be updated to take into account the new flight opportunities?
Do the following not breaks the current "Only one intercontinental departure and one intercontinental arrival permitted in each continent" rule?:
LAX-HNL-PPT-HNL-SYD-PER-HKG
and
LAX-HNL-PPT-HNL-NRT-HKG-SYD-PER
If so I guess the rules will need to be reviewed?