Posted at 12:13 p.m., Thursday, November 10, 2005
BUSINESS BRIEFS
Hawaiian Air passenger count up
Advertiser Staff
Hawaiian Airlines flew 488,638 passengers in October, up 10.3 percent from the same month a year earlier, the company announced today.The airline also recorded 585 million revenue passenger miles in October, up 12.9 percent from a year earlier. Available seat miles totaled 647 million for the month, up 10.3 percent from the previous year. Load factor was 90.5 percent, up from 88.4 percent from a year earlier.
Hawaiian Electric Industries dividend unchanged at 31 cents
Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. today declared a cash dividend of 31 cents per share, unchanged from the previous quarter.
The dividend, which is equivalent to $1.24 at an annual rate, is payable Dec. 12 for shareholders of record at the close of business Nov. 21.
Hawai'i unemployment insurance claims fall from year ago
Hawai'i continues to rank among the states with the lowest percentage of workers filing for unemployment insurance, the U.S. Labor Department reported today.
An estimated 900 workers in Hawai'i filed first-time unemployment claims for the week of Oct. 29, down 200 from the same week last year. The Hawai'i claims represented just 0.3 percent of the national total, the fourth lowest among the 50 states.
