Hawaiian Airlines Reports December, Annual Traffic Statistics

HONOLULU, January 18, 2000 -- In systemwide service during December 1999, Hawaiian Airlines recorded Revenue Passenger Miles (RPMs) of 412,125,000, an increase of 13.7 percent from 362,401,000 RPMs reported for the same month in 1998.

Available Seat Miles (ASMs) in December 1999 were 581,247,000, an increase of 19.9 percent from 484,788,000 ASMs recorded in December 1998.

Systemwide Load Factor (LF) in December 1999 was 70.9 percent, a decrease of 3.9 points from 74.8 percent in December 1998.

Hawaiian carried 442,542 passengers in December 1999, an increase of 4.0 percent from 425,348 passengers reported for December 1998.

Fourth Quarter
During the fourth quarter of 1999, Hawaiian Airlines recorded RPMs of 1,261,940,000, an increase of 17.4 percent from 1,075,187,000 RPMs reported for the same quarter in 1998.

Available Seat Miles (ASMs) during the fourth quarter were 1,665,533,000, an increase of 16.9 percent from 1,425,228,000 ASMs recorded during the fourth quarter of 1998.

Systemwide Load Factor (LF) during the 1999 fourth quarter was 75.8 percent, an increase of 0.4 point from 75.4 percent during the same period in 1998.

Hawaiian carried 1,413,130 passengers during the fourth quarter of 1999, an increase of 9.8 percent from 1,287,560 passengers reported for the fourth quarter of 1998.

Year-to-date
For the year 1999, Hawaiian recorded total RPMs of 4,880,100,000, an increase of 12.5 percent from 4,338,600,000 RPMs recorded in 1998.

Total 1999 ASMs were 6,320,744,000, an increase of 11.4 percent from 5,673,656,000 ASMs recorded in 1998.

Average systemwide Load Factor in 1999 was 77.2 percent, an increase of 0.7 point from 76.5 percent in 1998.

Hawaiian carried a total of 5,707,182 passengers in 1999, an increase of 8.5 percent from 5,260,133 carried during 1998.


RPM = one paying passenger transported one mile
ASM = one seat transported one mile
LF = percentage of seating capacity utilized