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Hawaiian Airlines Aug traffic rises 14.3pc
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HONOLULU: Hawaiian Airlines said that its August traffic jumped 14.3 per cent, pushing occupancy on its planes up to 88 per cent. The Honolulu-based airline flew 840.1 million revenue passenger miles up from 734.8 million in August 2009. A revenue passenger mile represents one paying passenger flown one mile. Capacity rose 11 percent to 954.5 million available seat miles, from 860.1 million a year earlier.
With traffic rising faster than seats available, planes were 2.6 percentage points fuller: Hawaiian's load factor totaled 88 per cent.
For the first eight months of the year, Hawaiian said traffic is up 3.7 per cent to almost 5.7 billion revenue passenger miles. Capacity has risen 1.7 per cent to 6.67 billion available seat miles, and occupancy also is up 1.7 percentage points to 85.4 per cent.
Shares of Hawaiian Holdings Inc., the carrier's parent, fell 27 cents, or 5 percent, to $4.95 in afternoon trading. -Agencies
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