I'm trying to book an award flight between PHL/EWR and PNI. For some reason, all routings involve either the last LAX-HNL or the last SFO-HNL of the day. Many routings arrive in LAX/SFO earlier in the day, but make me sit around LAX/SFO all day. We'd like to get to HNL earlier in the day so we can relax and get some good rest before headed out on the island hopper.

I thought international connections were permitted to be up to 24 hours, but UA.com isn't showing me anything longer than 12 hours.

Does anyone have any ideas as to how to handle this?

Note: This is a repost. My original request in the consolidated award fares stickey never got answered.