Hawaiian Airlines awards engine contract

Hawaiian Airlines Inc. awarded United Technologies Corp.'s Pratt & Whitney aircraft-engine unit a $325 million contract to maintain engines over 20 years on Hawaiian's fleet of Boeing 767 jetliners. The work on the twin-engine 767s will be performed at Pratt's engine center in Connecticut, Pratt said.

Hawaiian Airlines, which plans to merge with Aloha Airgroup Inc., expects to have three 767s in service to the West Coast by year's end. The airline will replace a fleet of DC-10s with 16 767s by 2003.