Updated at 5:29 p.m., Wednesday, January 2, 2008
Airline seats to Hawaii projected to increase
Advertiser Staff
Airline capacity on flights to Hawai'i is expected to rise slightly to 2.57 million seats for the first three months of the year, a 0.1 percent increase from the same period last year, according to a report released today by the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.Domestic scheduled service to Hawai'i for the January-to-March period is expected to climb to 1.9 million air seats, a 5 percent increase over the same time the year before. U.S. West seats are expected to rise 5.8 percent during the period, reaching 1.63 million. U.S. East air seats are forecast to fall by 0.3 percent to 276,733.
International air seats are forecast to fall 11.6 percent to 660,914. Air seats from Japan are projected to fall 10.2 percent to 414,557.
