Debt

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2011

Debt

Debt

5.  Debt

Convertible Notes

On March 23, 2011, the Company issued $86.25 million principal amount of convertible senior notes (the Convertible Notes) due March 15, 2016.  The Convertible Notes were issued at par and bear interest at a rate of 5.00% per annum.  Interest is paid semi-annually, in arrears, on March 15 and September 15 each year, beginning on September 15, 2011.

Each $1,000 of principal of the Convertible Notes is convertible under certain circumstances, at an initial conversion rate of 126.8730 shares of the Company’s common stock (or a total of approximately 10.9 million shares), which is the equivalent of approximately $7.8819 per share, subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain specified events as set forth in the indenture governing the terms of the Convertible Notes.  Upon conversion, the Company will have the right, at the Company’s election, to pay or deliver, cash, shares of the Company’s common stock or a combination thereof.  Holders may convert their Convertible Notes at their option at any time prior to November 15, 2015, only if one of the following conditions has been met:

·During any calendar quarter after the calendar quarter ending June 30, 2011, and only during such calendar quarter, if the closing price of the Company’s common stock for at least 20 trading days in the period of 30 consecutive trading days ending on the last trading day of the preceding calendar quarter exceeds 130% of the conversion price per share of common stock in effect on the last day of such preceding calendar quarter;

·During the five consecutive business days immediately after any 10 consecutive trading day period in which the average trading price per $1,000 principal amount of the Convertible Notes during such period was less than 97% of the product of the closing sale price of the common stock and the conversion rate on such trading day;

·The Company makes specified distributions to holders of the Company’s common stock or specified corporate transactions occur.

On or after November 15, 2015, and up through and including the second business day immediately preceding March 15, 2016, the Holders may convert their Convertible Notes into common stock.

Holders may require the Company to repurchase all or a portion of their Convertible Notes upon a fundamental change, primarily a change in control or termination of trading, at a cash repurchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Convertible Notes plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any.  The Company may not redeem the Convertible Notes prior to their maturity date.

When accounting for the Convertible Notes, the Company applied accounting guidance related to the accounting for convertible debt instruments that may be settled in cash upon conversion.  This guidance required the Company to separately account for the liability and equity components of the Convertible Notes in a manner that reflects our nonconvertible debt borrowing rate when interest cost is recognized in subsequent periods.  This guidance required bifurcation of a component of the debt, classification of that component in equity, and then accretion of the resulting discount on the debt as part of interest expense reflected in the unaudited Consolidated Statements of Operations.

Accordingly, the Company recorded an adjustment to reduce the carrying value of the Convertible Notes by $19.5 million and recorded this amount in Shareholders’ Equity.  This adjustment was based on the calculated fair value of a similar debt instrument that did not have an associated equity component.  The annual interest rate calculated for a similar debt instrument was 11.00%.

The total issuance costs for the Convertible Notes were $3.3 million, of which $2.5 million was allocated to the debt component and $0.8 million was allocated to the equity component.  The issuance costs allocated to debt were capitalized and are being amortized to interest expense over the term of the Convertible Notes.  The issuance costs allocated to equity were recorded as a reduction of additional paid-in-capital.

The carrying value of the Convertible Notes is $67.6 million at June 30, 2011.  Interest expense for the three and six months ended June 30, 2011 was $1.2 million and $1.3 million, respectively, and non-cash interest expense for the three and six months ended June 30, 2011 was $0.8 million, for the amortization of the discount on the liability component.

Convertible Note Hedges and Warrants

In connection with the issuance of the Convertible Notes, the Company entered into separate convertible note hedge transactions (the Convertible Note Hedges) and separate warrant transactions (the Warrants) related to our common stock with certain financial investors to reduce the potential dilution of the Company’s common stock and to offset potential payments by the Company to holders of the Convertible Notes in excess of the principal of the Convertible Notes upon conversion.  The Convertible Note Hedges and Warrants are separate transactions, entered into by the Company with the financial institutions, and are not part of the Convertible Notes described above.

The Company paid $19.5 million for the Convertible Note Hedges.  Under the terms of the Convertible Note Hedges, the counterparties to the Convertible Note Hedges will generally deliver to the Company amounts in excess of the principal amount of the Convertible Notes delivered upon conversion by the Company to the holders of the Convertible Notes in the same form of consideration elected to be delivered by the Company to the holders of the Convertible Notes under the indenture for the Convertible Notes.  The Company may elect to settle the conversion feature of the Convertible Notes in cash or shares of common stock or in any combination of cash or shares of common stock as determined in accordance with the provisions of the indenture.   The Convertible Note Hedges are currently exercisable and expire on March 15, 2016.

Concurrent with the issuance of the Convertible Notes, the Company sold Warrants to certain financial institutions that permit such financial institutions to acquire shares of the Company’s common stock.  The Warrants are exercisable by the financial institutions for 10.9 million shares of the Company’s common stock at a current exercise price of $10.00 per share.  The Company received $12.0 million in proceeds for the sale of the Warrants.  The Warrants expire at various dates beginning in June 2016 and ending in September 2016.  The Warrants provide for net share settlement by the Company, subject to the option of the Company to deliver cash in lieu of shares if certain conditions under the Warrants have been met.

The Company determined that the Convertible Note Hedges and Warrants meet the requirements of the FASB’s accounting guidance for accounting for derivative financial instruments indexed to, and potentially settled in, a Company’s own stock and other relevant guidance and, therefore, are classified as equity transactions.  As a result, the Company recorded the purchase of the Convertible Note Hedges as a reduction in additional paid-in-capital and the proceeds of the Warrants as an increase to additional paid-in-capital in the unaudited Consolidated Balance Sheets, and the Company will not recognize subsequent changes in the fair value of the agreements in the financial statements.

Revolving Credit Facility

In December 2010, Hawaiian, as borrower, with the Company as guarantor, entered into an Amended and Restated Credit Agreement with Wells Fargo Capital Finance, Inc., as arranger and administrative agent for the lenders, providing for a secured revolving credit facility (the Revolving Credit Facility) in an amount of up to $75.0 million.  The Company used the proceeds received from the issuance of the Convertible Notes to pay-off the outstanding revolving credit facility balance of $54.7 million.  As of June 30, 2011, the Company had no outstanding borrowings under the Revolving Credit Facility and $65.4 million available (net of various outstanding letters of credit).  At June 30, 2011, the Company is in compliance with its financial covenants under the Revolving Credit Facility.

Aircraft Facility Agreements

On June 27, 2011, Hawaiian borrowed $192.8 million through fifteen separate secured loan agreements to finance a portion of the purchase price of fifteen Boeing 717-200 aircraft, each such aircraft including two Rolls-Royce BR700-715 engines, that Hawaiian previously leased under four capital and eleven operating leases.  See additional discussion of the purchase agreement at Note 6 — Leases.  The loan agreements bear interest at 8% per annum and are subject to a balloon payment at the maturity date of June 2019.

On April 6, 2011, Hawaiian borrowed $65 million through a secured loan agreement to finance a portion of the purchase price of an Airbus A330-200 aircraft that Hawaiian took delivery of on April 12, 2011.  This loan agreement has a fixed interest rate of 6.461% with principal and interest payments due quarterly beginning in July 2011 and a maturity date of April 2023.

As of June 30, 2011, the scheduled maturities of long-term debt over the next five years were as follows (in thousands):

Remaining months in 2011	$	15,646
2012	33,016
2013	86,443
2014	23,047
2015	24,510