Posted at 12:11 p.m., Monday, September 11, 2006
Hawaiian Airlines load factor falls to 85.7% in August
Advertiser Staff
Hawaiian Airlines said today its planes were 85.7 percent full in August, down from 90.1 percent in the same month a year earlier.Despite the decline in Hawaiian's load factor the airline's overall passenger count rose from a year earlier. The state's largest airline said interisland and West Coast flights carried a total of 548,169 passengers last month, up 3.1 percent from the year-earlier's 531,934.
The rise in passenger count comes amid new competition in the interisland market with the launching of Mesa Air Group Inc.'s go! airline June 9. Last month, go! said its planes were 64.5 percent filled in August, down from 73.9 percent in July.
