Nov 5 (Reuters) - Virgin Australia Holdings Ltd VAH.AX :
* Qtrly underlying profit before tax of $8.5 mln, an improvement of $53.5 mln on Q1 FY 2015
* Qtrly statutory profit after tax of $1.7 mln, an improvement of $60.7 mln on Q1 FY 2015
* Qtrly positive group yield growth and strong domestic yield growth on Q1 FY 2015
* Qtrly underlying group CASK excluding fuel and foreign exchange declined on Q1 FY 2015
* "Virgin Australia Group is on track to return to profitability for the 2016 financial year"
* Tigerair Australia delivering its first profit for the September quarter
* Group incurred qtrly restructuring and transaction costs, share of equity accounted losses and ineffective hedging impact of $9.1mln
* Quarterly group revenue load factor 79.2% versus 80.5%
* Quarterly group available seat kilometres 12.14 bln versus 12.24 bln
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