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Two airlines dominate Hawaii routes
Monday August 29, 2:00 am ET
United Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines account for almost a third of scheduled fall passenger capacity to the islands.
According to figures provided by the Hawaii Tourism Authority, half of air service to the state for the fall season will be provided by four carrers, those two plus American Airlines and Japan Airlines.
A look at the number of seats per carrier shows that United, which has trimmed global capacity 3 percent in the past year, flies at least 50 percent more seats to Hawaii than any other big five legacy carrier.
And Hawaiian now flies triple the number of Mainland seats as Aloha Airlines.
This is the air capacity to Hawaii, by carrier, for the month of October:
United: 679 flights, 142,428 seats, 18.3 percent of capacity. Hawaiian: 415 flights, 95,450 seats, 12.3 percent of capacity. American: 463 flights, 92,252 seats, 11.9 percent of capacity. JAL: 248 flights, 85,660 seats, 11 percent of capacity. Delta: 279 flights, 80,073 seats, 10.3 percent of capacity. Northwest: 279 flights, 76,136 seats, 9.8 percent of capacity. ATA: 220 flights, 49,452 seats, 6.4 percent of capacity. Continental: 199 flights, 47,585 seats, 6.1 percent of capacity. Aloha: 236 flights, 29,264 seats, 3.8 percent of capacity.
Source: Hawaii Tourism Authority. Size of aircraft and seat configuration affect differences in which carriers have more flights, versus more seats.
Published August 29, 2005 by Pacific Business News