TOKYO, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) Holdings Inc. said on Thursday that its group net profit in the first half of fiscal 2014 surged 78.2 percent on year to 35.77 billion yen (328.04 million dollars), local media reported.
The Japanese carrier attributed the increase to the new slots allocated in Tokyo's Haneda airport in March, which gave a boost to its international flight business. The increased revenue also offset higher fuel costs on the back of a weaker yen.
Operating profit for ANA in the half-year period rose 33 percent to 531.37 million dollars, while sales grew 9.1 percent to 7.84 billion dollars.
For the full fiscal year to March 2015, the airline kept its estimate of a 320.99 billion dollars' net profit on sales of 15.59 billion dollars, up 6.2 percent.
It maintained the forecast despite recent declines in fuel prices partly because it is hard to predict the impact of the expanding Ebola virus outbreak on passenger demand, said Japan's Kyodo News.
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