Hawaiian Airlines’ passenger traffic in January up 5.3%

Hawaiian Airlines’ passenger traffic rose 5.3 percent in January as the carrier offered more flights and filled a higher percentage of its seats.

The state’s largest carrier said today it transported 932,157 people compared with 884,990 in January 2016, and had a load factor, or percentage of seats filled, of 83.9 percent versus 81.1 percent in the year-earlier period.

Revenue passenger miles, or one paying passenger transported one mile, jumped 9.5 percent to 1.33 million from 1.22 million while available seat miles, or one seat transported one mile, rose 5.8 percent to 1.59 million from 1.50 million.