China, India traffic boost Q3 profits for All Nippon Airways

All Nippon Airways Co, Japan's largest domestic carrier, has reported a boost in Q3 profit that has come also on the back of an increase in international traffic.

The airline said that net income had gone up 34 per cent to 12.4 billion yen ($117 million) in the three months ended Dec 31, compared with a profit of 9.3 billion yen a year earlier.

During the quarter, revenue from domestic transport rose 2.3% to ¥187.8 billion on a 2.3% fall in passengers to 11.7 million. Traffic was down 1.8% to 10.25 billion RPKs against a 0.3% increase in ASKs to 15.69 billion.

Load factor dropped 1.4 points to 65.3%.

International transport revenue rose 5.8% to ¥77.6 billion as passenger numbers increased at the same rate to 1.2 million. RPKs grew 4.6% to 5.33 billion as capacity climbed 4.1% to 7.12 billion ASKs and load factor gained 0.3 point to 74.8%.

ANA said it would not change its full-year forecast of a ¥64 billion net profit, which would nearly double the ¥32.6 billion reported in the fiscal year ended March 31, 2007.