Originally Posted by
Fairdealfrank
It also avoids the aggravation at LAX, but is there sufficient demand and premium business for the route to pay its way?
The problem with point to point flights between Europe and Hawaii is that it's a leisure route and a niche leisure route at that; there's very little Premium traffic, so difficult to make money on.
It's been a while since I flew to that part of the world, but last time I did San Francisco - Lihue it was in an Economy only configuration.