ANA's October Performance: Internatinal Flights Grew by 8.1% while Domestic Passengers Down 12.6%

from Reuter, 8 December　2009

All Nippon Airways (ANA) has released its group-wide performance in October showing a total of 364,726 passengers or 8.1% increase over the same period of the last year, makirng three-month consecutive growth over the last year. This good performance can be attributed to shorter distance tourism from Japan to such destinations as Thailand and Korea. On the other hand, its domestic operations in October showed 3.419 million passengers system wide or 12.6% fewer than the same month of the last year. ANA's domestic passengers decreased 25-month consecutively with its drop in October was larger than September due to increased cancelled flights by a typhoon.

Editor's note: ANA's stock price at Tokyo Stock Exchange was 251 yen per stock as of December 9.