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Faster business registration offered

The state has launched a new online service, QuickFile, to help businesses speed their registrations.

QuickFile users can set up a free account that will let them file forms for several businesses. People can track the status of their filings online.

The state Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs had many requests for a faster way for businesses to complete their online registrations, the agency said.

Hawaii Business Express is online at www.ehawaii.gov/bizex.

Midnight Madness at Hawaiian Air

Hawaiian Airlines has launched a Midnight Madness service from Honolulu that arrives in the gambling haven Las Vegas at 10:45 p.m.

A return flight leaves Vegas for Honolulu at 2:45 a.m., so travelers can spend extra time in the city before returning home. Hawaiian will start with five weekly Midnight Madness flights then increase to six a week in May.

Honolulu could gain United jobs

KENT, Wash. » United Airlines is closing its customer call center in this Seattle suburb on June 4, a move that will cut 400 jobs.

Jeff Green, a spokesman for the Chicago-based airline, said all workers at United's Seattle Reservations Center in Kent will be offered work at the company's call centers in Chicago, Honolulu, Detroit or Washington, D.C. The Kent facility opened in 2000.

Employees who do not choose to be relocated will receive a severance package in accordance with their collective bargaining agreements with the company, Green said. The workers are represented by the International Association of Machinists.

United's parent company, UAL Corp., has been in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection since December 2002.