Hawaiian Air raises third-quarter guidance range for some financial measurements

Hawaiian Holdings Inc., parent company of Hawaiian Airlines, has revised upward the lower end of its range of guidance for the third quarter for passenger unit revenue and available seat miles and lowered its guidance for the cost per available seat mile excluding fuel.

The company now sees its passenger unit revenue being up 5.5 percent to 7.5 percent versus its guidance at the end of the second quarter of up 4.5 percent to 7.5 percent. Available seat miles are now seen being up 8 percent to 9 percent compared with previous guidance of up 7 percent to 9 percent.

And guidance for its cost per available seat mile excluding fuel was lowered to down 2 percent to flat from earlier guidance of down 1 percent to up 2 percent.