For a long time, QF's west coast USA gateway was SFO. LAX wasn't a QF destination until sometime in the 1970's or 1980's. Then, in the past couple of years, SFO was dropped and all west coast USA flights went through LAX. David R http://home.attbi.com/~damiross http://home.attbi.com/~damiross/books.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alireza Alivandivafa" <DEmocrat2n@xxxxxxx> To: <AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 21:40 Subject: Re: [AIRLINE] SP vs. 400 > In a message dated 8/7/2003 3:19:16 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > gjmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > > << I don't think they ever did this due to payload restrictions. With a > reasonable pax load the 200s and 300s always needed a stop in HNL. It > wasn't until the 400 was released that anybody could fly the Pacific > non-stop. > > As an aside, I know the SP flew SYD-HNL-YVR but I don't recall them flying > to LAX. Could be wrong, though. >> > > PA did it. I don't know about QF >