Chief Executive Anne Mulcahy Anne Mulcahy had predicted the company would be profitable in the third quarter, then pushed the profit target back to the fourth quarter.
On Thursday Future said the green shoots of recovery are well under way and that the US is now "close to returning to profitability, fulfilling a commitment we made a year ago to be profitable in the US in 2013".
By early spring, in fact, Mr. Whittle was promising Wall Street that Edison would be profitable in the quarter that closed on Monday, the first profit in its 11-year history.
Analysts expected Sonus to be profitable in the current quarter.
US Airways expects to be profitable in the second quarter, its first quarterly gain since 2007.
As a result, Mr. Daugherty said, the MyWay site will be profitable in the first month.
Yet if you're patient and willing to endure its ups and downs, it could be profitable in the long run.
Ice cream sales aren't profitable, but you convince investors that they will be profitable in the future.
Because few sectors are mature, and growth has been so widespread, everyone can promise to be profitable in the future.
The three main Arrium businesses could either break even or be profitable "in the right circumstances", he said.
