After flying from Tampa to Los Angeles in American’s A321neo first class, and then spending the night at the Hyatt Regency LAX, it was time to fly from Los Angeles to Honolulu the following morning. Since this flight was also on the American Airlines A321neo in first class, I don’t think it makes sense to do a full review of the flight, since it’ll be very similar to the review I just published.
Rather I’ll just focus on some of my key takeaways from this flight, which departed LAX at 8:15AM, and got to Honolulu at 12:22PM.
The American Airlines LAX airport experience
It has been a couple of years since I’ve flown through LAX Terminal 4, and it was exactly as I remembered it. We got to the airport at around 6:30AM, and security took around five minutes to clear, so that was easy.
We visited the Admirals Club — access isn’t included with a ticket, but I’m a member thanks to the Citi® / AAdvantage® Executive World Elite Mastercard® (review). The club was busy but not overcrowded.
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One nice thing about having access to the club is that we could get Hawaii PreClearance wristbands. While Hawaii is dropping all domestic travel requirements later this month, currently you still have to fill out a pre-travel form, and show proof of vaccination or a negative test. The Admirals Club agents were…