ANA POSTS STRONG QUARTERLY PROFITS

All Nippon Airways has reported a net profit of 24.2 billion yen ($296 million) in the third quarter of its fiscal year, compared with a net loss of 9.8 billion yen in the same period a year earlier. ANA credited a surge in international passenger traffic helped by new routes from Tokyo’s Haneda airport. For the first nine months of the year ANA earned 37.5 billion yen, compared with a net loss of 35.1 billion yen last year. For the fiscal year through to March, ANA expects to post a profit of just 6 billion yen, as it has been