Nearly 500,000 airline seats are being added this year to the nearly 5.2 million seats flown to the islands last year, the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau said. The increase more than doubles the 163,000 new seats added to Hawaii routes in 1999, the first year of increases after four years of declines. A record number of people,- more than 7 million, are expected to visit Hawaii this year.
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