Canadian investigators have disclosed another deviation incident involving a Boeing 787 flight on approach to Hong Kong. The aircraft, an Air Canada 787-9, was conducting a service from Toronto to Hong Kong on 8 July. On final approach – while operating in visual meteorological conditions – the aircraft “deviated below the glideslope”, says a notification from Transportation Safety Board of Canada. The notification says the glideslope was re-established at about 900ft above sea level, it adds, and the flight, with only four occupants, landed without further issues. Investigators have not specified the reasons for the event and whether the circumstances relate to several previous deviation incidents involving 787s on approach to Hong Kong. But one of those incidents, in April 2020, involved the same aircraft (C-FNOH) identified in the July 2021 event. On that occasion the aircraft had been arriving from Vancouver and was established on the ILS for Hong Kong’s runway 25L. But it overshot the localiser and descended below the minimum sector altitude, before the crew corrected the approach path and cited a false ILS capture.<br/>
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Lufthansa aims to win back business travellers by increasing the number of flights and improving catering, an executive board member was quoted as saying on Sunday. Lufthansa is carrying about 50% of the passengers it flew before the coronavirus crisis in 2019 and flying to 88% of pre-pandemic destinations. "Daily frequencies will increase on many connections," Christina Foerster, Lufthansa board member for Customer, IT & Corporate Responsibility, said Sunday. "This is important for business travellers who want to fly there and back on the same day." Foerster also said the airline would add a midday flight on particularly popular routes and that it will introduce new menus for premium customers from Sept. 1, combining German cuisine with international influences. The airline is well prepared for a surge in demand when travel to the United States reopens, Foerster added.<br/>
Air China and China Southern Friday narrowed losses in Q2 after a hit from low Lunar New Year traffic, but domestic COVID-19 outbreaks and border closures are set to weigh on the rest of the year. Chinese airline stocks had tumbled following domestic COVID-19 outbreaks in late July that locked down some cities and closed airports, but rebounded recently as China has nearly halted local spread. On Thursday, the city of Nanjing, locked down since late July, resumed commercial flights. Zhangjiajie, a popular tourist destination, will also reopen its airport on Aug. 30, an airport official said. Q3 results will take a hit from the flight cuts, though they were less severe than in Q1 when outbreaks restricted travel during the normally peak Lunar New Year holiday. Air China said its net loss attributable to shareholders narrowed to 578m yuan ($89.27m) from 6.2b yuan in Q1, taking H1 net loss to 6.8b yuan. China Southern trimmed its loss to 682m yuan from 4.0b yuan in Q1 for H1 total shortfall of a 4.7b yuan. Second-half earnings are expected to receive a boost from the pent-up domestic travel demand during the Mid-Autumn Festival and the week-long National Holiday in the fourth quarter, as health experts expect current outbreaks in China to be contained by end-August. Unlike in most markets, China's domestic capacity has rebounded past pre-COVID levels and airlines have added widebody planes on some local flights because international borders remain closed.<br/>