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December 5, 2017 6:46 AM EST

Hawaiian Airlines, Inc., a subsidiary of Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: HA) ("Company"), has announced its system-wide traffic statistics for the month of November and year to date. It also updated its expectations for certain fourth quarter and full year financial metrics and is announcing a new share repurchase authorization.

SYSTEM-WIDE OPERATIONS1
NOVEMBER
2017
2016
% CHANGE
PAX
945,568
869,970
8.7%
RPMS (000)
1,327,946
1,249,075
6.3%
ASMS (000)
1,546,170
1,455,392
6.2%
LF
85.9%
85.8%
0.1 pts.
YEAR-TO-DATE
2017
2016
% CHANGE
PAX
10,504,678
10,123,319
3.8%
RPMS (000)
14,928,462
14,155,896
5.5%
ASMS (000)
17,361,329
16,795,372
3.4%
LF
86.0%
84.3%
1.7 pts.
PAX
Passengers transported
RPM
Revenue Passenger Miles; one paying passenger transported one mile
ASM
Available Seat Miles; one seat transported one mile
LF
Load Factor; percentage of seating capacity filled
1 Includes the operations of contract carriers under capacity purchase agreements.
Fourth Quarter & Full Year 2017 Outlook
The Company has revised certain of its expectations for the quarter and year ending December 31, 2017 that were previously provided in its Third Quarter 2017 Earnings Release on October 19, 2017.
Specifically, the Company revised its estimates for operating revenue per ASM for the quarter and year ending December 31, 2017, due to better than expected close-in bookings and improved cargo revenue, expressed as an expected percentage change compared to the results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2016.
Item
Original Fourth Quarter 2017 Guidance
Revised Fourth Quarter 2017 Guidance
Original Full Year 2017 Guidance
Revised Full Year 2017 Guidance
Operating revenue per ASM
Down 1.0% to up 2.0%
Up 1.5% to up 3.5%
Up 5.0% to up 6.0%
Up 5.5% to up 6.5%
The Company also revised its estimate for economic fuel cost per gallon for the quarter ending December 31, 2017.
Item
Original Fourth Quarter 2017 Guidance
Revised Fourth Quarter 2017 Guidance
GAAP Equivalent
Original GAAP Fourth Quarter 2017 Guidance
Revised GAAP Fourth Quarter 2017 Guidance
Economic fuel cost per gallon (a)(b)
$1.75 to $1.85
$1.80 to $1.90
Fuel cost per gallon
$1.72 to $1.82
$1.82 to $1.92
(a)
See reconciliation of actual fuel costs to economic fuel costs.
(b)
Economic fuel cost per gallon estimates are based on the November 17, 2017 fuel forward curve.
The Company believes that economic fuel expense is a good measure of the effect of fuel prices on its business as it most closely approximates the net cash outflow associated with the purchase of fuel for its operations in a period. The Company defines economic fuel expense as GAAP fuel expense plus losses/(gains) realized through actual cash (receipts)/payments received from or paid to hedge counterparties for fuel hedge derivative contracts settled during the period.

New Share Repurchase Authorization
The Company is also announcing a new $100 million stock repurchase program in effect through December 31, 2019, which is in addition to the current $100 million authorization under which the Company has repurchased $90.5 million, or 2.27 million shares, year to date.


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