BUSINESS BRIEFS
Hawaiian hauls more passengers
Advertiser Staff and News Services
Hawaiian Airlines flew 488,638 passengers in October, up 10.6 percent from the same month a year earlier, the company announced.
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.
JOBLESS FILINGS REMAIN VERY LOW
Hawai'i continues to rank among the states with the lowest percentage of workers filing for unemployment insurance, the U.S. Labor Department reported yesterday.
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.
TRADE DEFICIT AT RECORD HIGH
WASHINGTON — The U.S. trade deficit surged to a record in September as oil imports hit an all-time high, driven up by hurricane-related shutdowns of Gulf Coast production.
The deficit with China hit a record as that country shipped a flood of televisions, toys and clothing to the United States. September's trade deficit was a record $66.1 billion, 11.4 percent higher than August and much worse than economists had been forecasting.
SUPERJUMBO JET STARTS ASIA TOUR
SINGAPORE — The Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger jet, completed its first flight outside of Europe yesterday, landing at Singapore's Changi Airport to begin a regional tour aimed at wooing new customers a year before the first delivery.
The double-decker superjumbo taxied onto the tarmac amid hundreds of onlookers and tight security after a 13-hour, 8,389-mile flight from Airbus' headquarters in Toulouse, France.
