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AP
Hawaiian Airlines March Traffic Rises
Thursday April 12, 11:47 am ET
Hawaiian Airlines March Traffic Rises 22.1 Percent on 17.2 Percent Capacity Expansion

HONOLULU (AP) -- Airline Hawaiian Airlines Inc. said Thursday its March scheduled traffic rose 22.1 percent on a 17.2 percent capacity expansion.
The carrier said its scheduled traffic rose to 679 million revenue passenger miles from 556.3 million in the same month of 2006. A revenue passenger mile is an industry unit measuring one paying passenger flown one mile.

Capacity grew to 745.4 million available seat miles from 636.1 million, while occupancy improved to 91.1 percent from 87.5 percent.

So far this year, Hawaiian Airlines said its traffic is up 14.2 percent to 1.86 billion revenue passenger miles on a 14.2 percent capacity gain to 2.12 billion available seat miles. Occupancy has slipped to 87.4 percent from 87.5 percent.

Shares of parent Hawaiian Holdings Inc. rose 4 cents to $3.43 in midday trading on the American Stock Exchange.