East West can confirm this but a travel agent friend has advised me that he simply tells his clients to fly Thai to Phuket as it can be cheaper and naturally a far better product and you can have a stop over in BKK. Apparently they did fly direct to Phuket as well but not sure if that is still the case.
For Bali, he says that returning clients are opting to fly Garuda or trying Virgin to DPS as they can be cheaper as well.
Hawaii: I wonder what the 'true' loads are like with Jet* compared to Qantas on the HNL run?
At least with DPS and HNL there are other choices and it is about choice, isn't it?