Japan Airlines Corp, Asia's largest carrier by sales, will add more flights to Guangzhou in southern Guangdong Province and cut its frequencies to Hong Kong as it focuses on more profitable routes.

The airline will raise its Guangzhou service from Narita, its home base, to 14 flights a week from 13 in October, the company said in an e-mailed statement yesterday, Bloomberg News reported. Its Hong Kong services will fall to 14 flights a week from 17 the same month.

The airline will also reduce its Paris service to seven flights a week from 10 in November, while its Los Angeles route will drop to seven a week from eight in October.

The carrier will also start a twice-weekly cargo flight to Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, via Bangkok, from Kansai International Airport, Osaka, in October, it said.

(Shanghai Daily August 9, 2007)