Hawaiian Airlines passenger traffic up 0.5%

Hawaiian Airlines’ passenger traffic edged up 0.5% in January as the company flew more miles than in the year-earlier period.

The state’s largest carrier said Thursday that it transported 963,053 passengers last month compared with 958,548 in the year-earlier period. Its load factor, or the percentage of seats filled, fell 0.7 percentage point to 83.6% from 84.3%.

Revenue passenger miles, or one paying passenger transported one mile, rose 6.6% to 1.53 billion from 1.43 billion. Available seat miles, or one seat transported one mile, increased 7.5% to 1.83 billion from 1.7 billion.

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