HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) -
Hawaiian Airlines reports it
carried a record 9,484,204 passengers in 2012, 9.4 percent more than the year
before.
Because longer flights bring in more revenue and are also more
fuel-efficient, airlines measure performance not by passengers carried but by
revenue passenger miles, and Hawaiian flew 12.2 million RPMs, up 20.4 percent,
on 14.7 million available seat miles, up 22 percent.
In other words, capacity expansion outpaced traffic growth –
causing systemwide load factor to fall from 83 percent in 2011 to 80 percent in
2012 – but for every 11 seat miles added, 10 flew occupied by paying
passengers.
Hawaiian has been expanding rapidly for years, adding routes
to four cities in Japan and two in Australia as well as new service to Korea
and New York, in addition to its pre-existing route network to Manila, American
Samoa and other Pacific destinations plus 10 cities in the West.
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