Hawaiian Airlines’ passenger traffic rose 2 percent in August as the carrier offered more flights.

The state’s largest airline transported 996,014 passengers compared with 976,188 in the year-earlier period. Hawaiian’s load factor, or the percentage of seats filled, edged up 1.2 percentage points to 84.4 percent from 83.2 percent.

Revenue passenger miles, or one paying passenger transported one mile, jumped 7.1 percent to 1.43 million from 1.34 million. Available seat miles, or one seat transported one mile, increased 5.6 percent to 1.70 million from 1.61 million.

$50,000 conservation fund created

The Hawaiian Airlines Foundation, the Hawaii Conservation Alliance Foundation and Conservation International have created a $50,000 conservation fund for Hawaii nonprofits fighting climate change.

The fund was created to honor Hawaii’s role as host of the International Union for Conservation of Nature World Conservation Congress.

Grants as high as $15,000 will be awarded to organizations involved in climate change mitigation, adaptation or education. Interested organizations may submit applications to support@hawaiiconservation.org through Nov. 1.

Funding consideration will be given to organizations that implement nature-based solutions to mitigate, capture and sequester carbon or provide outreach and education designed to drive behavioral changes to reduce climate change impacts. Grants will be awarded by Dec. 2.

On the move

Central Pacific Bank has appointed Isaac Okita to vice president and treasury manager. His responsibilities include overall leadership of the bank’s financial management functions. Okita has nine years of financial industry experience and seven years‘ management experience. He previously served as vice president and asset and liability manager for Bank of Hawaii.

Hawaii State Federal Credit Union has appointed Liann Unebasami as the new branch manager for its Hawaii Kai location. She will oversee day-to-day branch operations. Unebasami previously served as an officer and commercial banking senior analyst for Bank of Hawaii.