Hawaiian Airlines' passenger count soared more than 25 percent in April after Aloha Airlines and ATA Airlines shutdown their passenger service.

The state's largest airline said it flew a total of 718,767 passengers on its trans-Pacific and interisland routes last month, which was up from April 2007's 572,613.

Hawaiian ramped up its capacity last month in wake of the shutdowns of Aloha and ATA. Hawaiian added several interisland flights and put a larger Boeing 767 jet into its interisland services.

Despite passenger count increase, Hawaiian said its load factor was virtually unchanged in April. Hawaiian said its planes were 88 percent full last month, which was slight above April 2007's 87.8 percent.

Hawaiian spokesman Keoni Wagner said the fact that the airline's load factor was unchanged "tells us that the extra capacity we put in the market met demand."

Shares of Hawaiian slipped 6 cents to $6.99 in afternoon trading on the American Stock Exchange.