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Business and Organization
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2011
Business and Organization  
Business and Organization

1. Business and Organization

        Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. (the "Company," "Holdings," "we," "us" and "our") and its direct wholly-owned subsidiary, Hawaiian Airlines, Inc. (Hawaiian), are incorporated in the State of Delaware. The Company's primary asset is its sole ownership of all issued and outstanding shares of common stock of Hawaiian.

        Hawaiian is engaged in the scheduled air transportation of passengers and cargo amongst the Hawaiian Islands (the Neighbor Island routes), between the Hawaiian Islands and certain cities in the United States (the North America routes), and between the Hawaiian Islands and the South Pacific, Australia and Asia (the International routes), collectively referred to as our Scheduled Operations. In addition, Hawaiian operates various charter flights. Hawaiian is the largest airline headquartered in Hawaii and the twelfth largest domestic airline in the United States based on revenue passenger miles reported by the Research and Innovative Technology Administration Bureau of Transportation Services as of October 31, 2011, latest data available. As of December 31, 2011, Hawaiian's fleet consisted of sixteen Boeing 717-200 aircraft for its Neighbor Island routes and sixteen Boeing 767-300 and five Airbus A330-200 aircraft for its North America, International and charter routes.