The early morning PHX nonstop on Southwest is convenient for connecting to California and Hawaii. You can leave Tulsa at 7 am and be in Hawaii at 1:30.
No disagreement there. I was just referring to my own preference. SW used to have two nonstops a day between TUL and PHX as well as PHX to TUL. Going either direction it was mid morning or mid afternoon. I'm just happy being back somewhere that I can get flights to where I want to go easily without having to drive two plus hours to Eugene/Springfield which the flight would then go to PDX, SFO, DEN, or SEA to get to anywhere, or almost five hours to Portland. Where I lived the airport was OTH for North Bend, and they had one in and one out a day that went to SFO. It would arrive around 11AM Pacific time and depart around 1PM Pacific.
I think I posted this before, the one time I knew my flight was not going to leave the terminal.