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HONOLULU (AFX) - Hawaiian Airlines Inc., a subsidiary of Hawaiian Holdings Inc., said December traffic rose 5.3 percent over last year.Revenue passenger miles grew to 637.1 million from 604.8 million last year. One revenue passenger mile equals one paying passenger flown one mile.Capacity increased 11.5 percent to 756.8 million available seat miles in December, from 678.8 million a year ago.Load factor, or the number of passengers carried as a proportion of available seats, dropped to 84.2 percent from 89.1 percent last December.Hawaiian Airlines boarded 556,660 passengers in December, a 10.3 percent jump from the 504,735 that flew on its scheduled and charter flights in the previous year.For the full 2006 year, the airline said traffic rose 6.2 percent to 7 billion miles, capacity rose 4.2 percent to 8.06 billion seat miles, and load factor dipped 1.1 percentage points to 86.4 percent.Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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