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Seat Scarcity May Make Hawaii Trips More Expensive This Fall

Get ready for packed airplanes on the routes to the islands this fall--and possibly more connections to get there: The number of airline seats landing in Hawaii from the US mainland and other parts of the world is expected to fall by roughly 13 percent this fall.

Seats from the West Coast should fall by 15 percent; from the East Coast capacity is only declining by six percent. Seat tallies into Hawaii from Japan, Australia and New Zealand will all fall by double-digits.

The news does make some sense considering that two of the largest fliers into Hawaii--ATA and Aloha--both went belly-up recently and that the cost of long-haul flights has skyrocketed with the ever-increasing price of fuel. The upshot? A Hawaii seat squeeze is likely here to stay for some time.

[Alex Salkever is the editor and founder of Hawaiirama, a Hawaii travel blog]

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