Hawaiian Airlines’ transported fewer people in August than the year-earlier period, but the state’s largest carrier still increased its revenue per passenger mile.

The percentage of seats filled declined 1.8 percentage points to 84.4 percent from 86.2 percent while the number of passengers that Hawaiian carried slipped by 2,089, or 0.2 percent, to 1.02 million.

Revenue passenger miles, which is one paying passenger transported 1 mile, increased 7.6 percent to 1.56 billion from 1.45 billion. Available seat miles, or one seat transported one mile, jumped 9.9 percent to 1.85 billion from 1.68 billion.

ON THE MOVE

Kaiser Permanente has announced that they’ve added the following three doctors to their team on Oahu and Maui:

>> Dr. Allison Raines is the Moanalua Medical Office’s emergency medicine physician. Raines served her residency at Lehigh Valley Health Network in Bethlehem, Pa.

>> Dr. Kuldeep Singh Tagore is a new gastroenterologist at the Wailuku Medical Office. Tagore did his residency at the University of California, Davis Medical Center.

>> Dr. Evone Wong is the Wailuku Medical Office’s new optometrist. Wong completed her externships at VA-Palo Alto, Eye Center of South Florida and GW Eye Associates.