Hawaiian Airlines passenger traffic up 5.2% in July
Hawaiian Airlines’ passenger traffic rose 5.2 percent in July from the year-earlier month as the company added more seats to its systemwide operation.
The state’s largest carrier said Wednesday it transported just more than 1 million people compared with 957,876 in July 2014. Hawaiian’s load factor, or the percentage of seats filled, ticked down 0.1 percent to 84.5 percent from 84.6 percent.
Available seat miles, or one seat transported one mile, rose 3.9 percent to 1.61 million from 1.55 million. Revenue passenger miles, or one paying passenger transported one mile, increased 3.8 percent to 1.36 million from 1.31 million.