Qantas share price

Qantas Airways Limited (ASX: QAN) shares are soaring today after the airline reported its F22 earnings. But was there a Qantas dividend?

And, of course, the Qantas [dividend](https://www.fool.com.au/definitions/dividend/). [loss after tax](https://www.fool.com.au/definitions/npat/) of $860 million, down 49.2% from last year. [income investors](https://www.fool.com.au/investing-education/generate-income-shares/), the airline’s dividend situation won’t be changing this year. This tends to boost the share price, given that under the laws of supply and demand, less supply leads to a rise in price. So it’s not like there is nothing in this earnings report for investors to get excited about. [market capitalisation](https://www.fool.com.au/definitions/market-capitalisation/) of $8.56 billion (but sadly still no [dividend yield](https://www.fool.com.au/definitions/dividend-yield/)). It is difficult for a company to justify a dividend when it is losing money on the bottom line, after all. However, they do support shareholders by reducing the overall share count. But the airline operator hasn’t paid a dividend in the post-pandemic era. The airline is currently up a very pleasing 7.93% at $4.90 a share. This lift comes directly after the carrier At the time of writing, the ASX 200 had added an encouraging 0.81% and is back above 7,050 points.