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2025 report cardHawaiian Airlines
In 2025 Hawaiian Airlines flew 79.9 passenger-miles per gallon of jet fuel, ranking 2 of 13. That's 32% better than the all-airline figure that year. Since 2000 its figure has risen 154%.
About Hawaiian Airlines
Hawaiian's flying started as island-to-island hops and mainland routes and grew into long routes across the Pacific, which the average trip length in its figures shows. Alaska Air Group bought the airline in September 2024. The two still file separately, so Hawaiian keeps its own page for 2025.
- 79.9passenger-miles per gallon, 2025
- 0.122 kgCO2 per passenger-mile
- 83%of seats filled
- 170seats per flight on average
The story in the figures
Hawaiian Airlines' passenger-miles per gallon rose 154% between 2000 and 2025, from 31.4 to 79.9. Most of that came from the aircraft: seat-miles per gallon rose 131%, while planes ran fuller, with 76% of seat-miles filled in 2000 against 83% in 2025.
The shape of the flying changed as well: the average flight went from 150 seats to 170, and the average passenger flew 701 miles per segment in 2000 and 1,666 in 2025. In general, larger aircraft spread fuel over more passengers, and longer flights spend a smaller share of their fuel on takeoff and climb.
2025 is its best year on record, with no earlier year reaching 79.9 passenger-miles per gallon.
In 2020 the pandemic emptied the cabins: load factor dropped from 87% to 61%, and passenger-miles per gallon fell from 66.0 to 43.1. A flight burns most of its fuel whether the seats are full or not, which is why an empty year looks so bad per passenger. By 2025 the figure was 21% above its 2019 level.
Against the all-airline figure for 2025 (60.6), Hawaiian Airlines was 32% better. On a 1,000 mile trip that works out to 122 kg of CO2 for one passenger, from burning jet fuel only.
What one seat costs the climate
CO2 for one passenger on Hawaiian Airlines, from burning jet fuel only.
- 61 kgover 500 miles
- 122 kgover 1,000 miles
- 244 kgover 2,000 miles
Year-by-year figures
| Year | Passenger-miles per gallon | kg CO2 per passenger-mile | Seat-miles per gallon | Load factor | Passengers (millions) | Fuel (million gallons) | CO2 (thousand tonnes) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 79.9 | 0.122 | 96.0 | 83.2% | 11.6 | 242 | 2,356 |
| 2024 | 69.7 | 0.140 | 83.1 | 83.9% | 11.0 | 256 | 2,493 |
| 2023 | 65.4 | 0.149 | 78.3 | 83.5% | 10.9 | 258 | 2,514 |
| 2022 | 62.5 | 0.156 | 78.1 | 80.1% | 10.0 | 239 | 2,327 |
| 2021 | 55.8 | 0.175 | 80.5 | 69.3% | 6.5 | 179 | 1,744 |
| 2020 | 43.1 | 0.226 | 71.2 | 60.6% | 3.3 | 106 | 1,029 |
| 2019 | 66.0 | 0.148 | 76.2 | 86.6% | 11.5 | 270 | 2,630 |
| 2018 | 62.8 | 0.155 | 73.6 | 85.3% | 11.6 | 274 | 2,668 |
| 2017 | 62.7 | 0.155 | 73.0 | 85.9% | 11.3 | 260 | 2,533 |
| 2016 | 63.4 | 0.154 | 75.2 | 84.3% | 10.8 | 244 | 2,379 |
| 2015 | 61.5 | 0.158 | 75.5 | 81.5% | 10.5 | 234 | 2,281 |
| 2014 | 60.3 | 0.162 | 74.1 | 81.3% | 10.1 | 230 | 2,243 |
| 2013 | 60.5 | 0.161 | 74.5 | 81.2% | 9.9 | 226 | 2,203 |
| 2012 | 61.3 | 0.159 | 73.7 | 83.2% | 9.5 | 199 | 1,942 |
| 2011 | 61.9 | 0.158 | 73.3 | 84.4% | 8.7 | 164 | 1,597 |
| 2010 | 61.5 | 0.158 | 71.9 | 85.5% | 8.4 | 141 | 1,372 |
| 2009 | 59.2 | 0.165 | 70.5 | 83.9% | 8.3 | 137 | 1,341 |
| 2008 | 58.6 | 0.166 | 70.8 | 82.7% | 7.9 | 134 | 1,306 |
| 2007 | 61.6 | 0.158 | 70.5 | 87.4% | 7.1 | 128 | 1,253 |
| 2006 | 60.8 | 0.160 | 70.3 | 86.4% | 6.2 | 112 | 1,097 |
| 2005 | 60.8 | 0.160 | 69.5 | 87.4% | 5.8 | 109 | 1,063 |
| 2004 | 59.2 | 0.165 | 68.7 | 86.1% | 5.6 | 104 | 1,012 |
| 2003 | 55.0 | 0.177 | 68.5 | 80.3% | 5.7 | 101 | 986 |
| 2002 | 41.7 | 0.234 | 53.9 | 77.4% | 5.7 | 115 | 1,122 |
| 2001 | 36.2 | 0.269 | 46.7 | 77.5% | 5.6 | 115 | 1,121 |
| 2000 | 31.4 | 0.310 | 41.6 | 75.6% | 6.0 | 133 | 1,301 |
Neighbours in the ranking
Nearby airline results
These airlines sit nearby by passenger-miles per gallon in their last data year. Historical airlines have different end years, shown here, so this isn't a same-year ranking.
Airline references
Source: US Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), Schedule P-12(a) fuel, T-100 traffic and regional Schedule T-2 filings; US EPA jet-fuel CO2 factor. See the methodology.