The more I look at this, the more I feel SWA is concentrating on delivering service to Californians with everyone else as a secondary market. MAYBE, if business looks good enough, they’ll open route from Pheonix and, more likely, Las Vegas.
I could see Las Vegas as a strong contender for service to Hawaii for 2 reasons. First, Vegas is a popular destination for Hawaiians. Second, SWA’s already has a pretty strong route system nationwide going to Vegas because of its popularity.
For those of us living in the Midwest, unless current flight schedules just happen to work out with planned Hawaiian flight schedules, we’re going to have to wait until SWA’s decides it’s worth juggling some of their routes to meet up with west coast connections to Hawaii, and that might not be realistic. For the east coast they might have to wait until SWA opens up route to Hawaii that depart from Vegas or Pheonix.