Most of those billion potential pax you mention can't get the Visa for USA - but I agree that this is the future, the PRC is potentially huge. But what about pax feeding the route outbound from HNL - not alot. Honolulu has the population of Canberra. Hawaii has the population of Auckland. The sector length is the same as HKG-CDG so it's minimum A340. Whatever, hope CX start flying ther soon before this thread becomes like a Tripadvisor whinge, BUT I somehow doubt it...