Al,

Thank you for your reply.

The reason we wanted to fly from HNL is that we planned to spend a couple of days there in order to break up the trip. You are correct about the AC flight and that is also an option for us.

Since are ultimate goal is to get to Sydney, going via NRT is definitely an option, depending on the QF flight from NRT-SYD.

Your advice on flying SYD-CNS was very helpful. The QF one way fare is very good.

As far as flying home from CNS, flying CO on Air Mic is probably our best bet as there is a flight on 10/4, when we hope to go home. We would buy a QF pass CNS-NRT as a back up plan as we always like to be prepared for anything when non-reving.

I appreciate your offer to check loads when it gets closer. Also, want to apologize for mispelling Qantas. : )

Thank you very much.

Jeff