Hawaiian Airlines’ passenger traffic rose 5.2 percent in August even though a fewer percentage of seats were filled. 

The state’s largest carrier said Tuesday it transported 976,188 people compared with 928,008 in the year-earlier period. Hawaiian’s load factor, or percentage of seats filled, slipped 1.6 percentage points to 83.2 percent from 84.8 percent. 

Revenue passenger miles, or one paying passenger transported one mile, rose 1.9 percent to 1.34 million from 1.31 million. Available seat miles, or one seat transported one mile, increased 3.9 percent to 1.61 million from 1.55 million.