ANA President: "We strongly hope to make a profit on the international flight business."

ANA President Yoji Ohashi emphasized at a news conference with aviation journalists on October 1, "We strongly hope to make a profit on the international flight business for this fiscal year, which is our commitment, though the airline industry is suffering from the recent rise of oil price." He added that ANA had improved both business and tourist passengers on its international flights during the second quarter of FY2004. On its China routes particularly, ANA successfully carried more passengers for the quarter than those for the same quarter of FY2002. ANA highly expects to keep increasing passengers on its China routes for the second half of FY2004 afterOctober as well.

This Week Contents
Headline
- ANA President: "We strongly hope to make aprofit on the international flight business."
Industry
- IHI joins the GEnx program with a 15% share
- MHI joins the Trent 1000 program as a RRSP
- Boeing is still discussing development of 747 advanced
Airline
- Star Flyer decides to select A320 for its new business
- Qantas improves in-flight services with the latest A330-300
- Lufthansa will offer daily flight services on its Nagoya-Frankfurt route
- THA will offer daily flight services on its Nagoya-Bangkok route
- JAL begins operating B747-400 freighter
- JAL air transport result for August 2004