I don't understand why they didn't just continue to DFW via SFO or LAX, like they do with JFK
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Surely DFW-HNL-SYD makes more sense than DFW-BNE-SYD
There was also DFW-NAN (the Americans love Fiji) and then if there were any clever people left in QF, they could use the NAN-Oz services on Air Pacific or even that Jet* mob
but no easier to just have an unscheduled stop over.
DFW-PPT (the Americans love Tahiti) could have worked as well, maybe?