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Hawaiian Airlines, which is coming off a company-record year for passenger traffic, kept its momentum rolling in January.
The state’s largest carrier said Thursday that the number of passengers it carried rose 4.3 percent during the month as it carried more seats than in the year-earlier period.
Hawaiian transported 884,990 people compared with 848,567 in January 2015. Its load factor, or the percentage of seats filled, increased 2.9 percentage points to 81.1 percent from 78.2 percent.
Revenue passenger miles, a measurement of the number of miles traveled by paying customers, rose 5.2 percent to 1.22 million from 1.16 million. Available seat miles, a measurement of an airline’s carrying capacity, increased 1.5 percent to 1.5 million from 1.48 million.
In 2015 Hawaiian transported 10.7 million passengers in 2015 to mark the company’s best year in its 86-year history. The passenger total was up 4.7 percent from 10.2 million in 2014.
Hawaiian has now hit company records for 11 straight years as it expands its network. Hawaiian’s first 10 million passengers took nearly 40 years to carry, from 1929 to 1967. In 2014 Hawaiian for the first time welcomed 10 million guests in a year.