[bvw]

The 1959 Qantas flight was a promotional "round the world" flight. Regular jet service began out of HNL to US in 1960-1961 -- Pan Am and United. Honolulu has always been a busy airport, and for years had the longest runway, but that was a runway, not a jetway. The first jetways were additions completed in 1959. That is to say, in 1961 jet service was a very new thing. Flights were longer, had more stops.

And in 1961 HNL had old-style terminals. Their new jet-age terminal was not completed until August 1962.

[bvw]

source: http://hawaii.gov/hawaiiaviation/publications/hnl-the-first-80-years

[David]

"And in 1961 HNL had old-style terminals. Their new jet-age terminal was not completed until August 1962."

Any idea which terminal the pictures depict? If the claimed 1971 pictures are in the old terminal, they presumably are not 1971 pictures.