{"id":39780,"date":"2015-10-30T11:43:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T11:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=39780"},"modified":"2015-10-30T11:43:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T11:43:22","slug":"japan-airlines-says-six-month-profit-soars-29-per-cent-ups-full-year-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/japan-airlines-says-six-month-profit-soars-29-per-cent-ups-full-year-forecast\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Airlines says six-month profit soars 29 per cent, ups full-year forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan Airlines (JAL) said Friday its six-month net profit soared nearly 29 per cent while the carrier boosted its full-year forecasts thanks to a surge in tourism and a steep slide in fuel costs. <\/p>\n<p>The airline&#8217;s net profit came in at 103.4 billion yen ($854 million), while it said it expected its full-year profit to be 172 billion yen, up about 20 per cent from its earlier projection. <\/p>\n<p>Half-year revenue rose 0.6 per cent to 687.9 billion yen in the six months to September, JAL said. <\/p>\n<p>Visitor arrivals in Japan have surged as a weak yen puts more purchasing power in the hands of foreign tourists. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The number of foreign visitors to Japan, which affects our company&#8217;s passenger revenue, increased significantly from the previous year,&#8221; the airline said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oil prices, which greatly affect our fuel purchasing costs, have been low compared to the year before,&#8221; it added. <\/p>\n<p>For the full fiscal year to March 2016, the company upgraded its sales forecast to 1.347 trillion yen from its earlier estimate of 1.328 trillion yen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan Airlines (JAL) said Friday its six-month net profit soared nearly 29 per cent while the carrier boosted its full-year forecasts thanks to a surge in tourism and a steep slide in fuel costs. The airline&#8217;s net profit came in at 103.4 billion yen ($854 million), while it said it expected its full-year profit to be 172 billion yen, up about 20 per cent from its earlier projection. Half-year revenue rose 0.6 per cent to 687.9 billion yen in the six months to September, JAL said. Visitor arrivals in Japan have surged as a weak yen puts more purchasing power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}