DISCOUNTINVESTIGATOR & SWH,
All is forgiven,
You are absolutely correct in what you wrote.
I finally got back to Honolulu for the first time in a long time and guess what?
Just as you described the HNL twr instructions of "Clear to taxi to your gate" where most confusing and the most NON stantard ICAO radio procedures I have ever heard.
One can only expect JetStar to be exonerated for such blatent misleading radio procedures from HNL tower!
