Japan Airlines Corp. said Friday it posted a group net loss of 40.7 billion yen in the April-June quarter, compared with a 77.2 billion yen loss in the same period a year earlier.
The improvement was attributed to a recovery in international passenger numbers.
The airline industry saw a huge loss in international flight revenue in fiscal 2003 due to the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome and the war in Iraq.
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