From Pacific Business News
Airlines are flying 2,584,027 seats to Hawaii this month through September, a revised state analysis showed Wednesday.
The Scheduled Seats Outlook, by the Hawaii Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, is a rolling three-month average drawn from the airlines' own published schedules.
The new outlook, removing June and adding September, shows 4.1 percent more seats despite Japanese capacity that is still down more than 11 percent.
Seats from east of the Rockies are down 8.4 percent but capacity from west of the Rockies is up 11.5 percent. This does not necessarily reflect a shift in where visitors come from, but does suggest that more visitors from U.S. East will be catching the final leg of their flights in Los Angeles, San Francisco or Phoenix.
Phoenix continues to be the big new source of air capacity to Hawaii, having overtaken Seattle as the third leading market for seats to the islands. Phoenix capacity in the new report is up 153 percent from last year.