Originally Posted by
polymox
That W-style pairing would be very long. Are there contractual restrictions on trip lengths that would disallow it?
It could just as easily be built as HNL-SEA-NRT-HNL and HNL-NRT-SEA-HNL opposite direction triangle pairings to make the trips shorter.
They're cancelling HNL-NRT to do SEA-NRT, so it won't be built as a triangle as there will be no HNL-NRT flight.