Hawaiian sets record for passengers carried in 2011

Hawaiian Airlines (HA) has set a new company record for total passengers carried in a single year—with 8,666,319 in 2011. Its passenger statistics for December and the 2011 fourth quarter were also company records, it noted. Traffic for the full-year 2011 increased 17% year-over-year to 10.15 billion RPMs on an 18.6% increase in capacity to 12.04 billion ASMs. Load factor dipped 1.2 points to 84.3%. Fourth-quarter traffic rose 14.5% over the prior-year period to 2.61 billion RPMs on a 16.7% jump in capacity to 3.10 billion ASMs. Load factor dropped 1.6 points to 84%.