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Feb 27 (Reuters) - Australia's flag carrier Qantas Airways QAN.AX declared its first dividend in more than five years and reported an 11.2% increase in its first-half underlying profit on Thursday.
The airline declared an interim dividend of 16.5 Australian cents per share, resuming distribution payouts for the first time since the COVID-era. It last paid a final dividend of 13 Australian cents in September 2019.
The company reported an underlying profit before tax of A$1.39 billion ($875.42 million) for the six months ended December 31, compared with A$1.25 billion a year earlier. That beat with the Visible Alpha consensus of A$1.37 billion.
($1 = 1.5878 Australian dollars)
(Reporting by Roshan Thomas and Rajasik Mukherjee in Bengaluru; Editing by Shounak Dasgupta)
((Rajasik.Mukherjee@thomsonreuters.com))
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