Originally Posted by
ld0595
The Chinese tour operator CAISA will be bank rolling the operation, if CAISA aren't happy with take up on PEK/EDI they will consolidate their bookings on to PEK/MAN. If they want to give EDI another crack they'll possibly resume for summer, perhaps just peak summer, 2020.
BHX managed 2 season with CAISA before Hainan / CAISA jumped into bed with MAN and there is now hardly even a slim chance that there'll be a direct PEK/BHX in the medium term. Sadly same may well happen with EDI. Whatever, the real high revenue business traffic will continue to reside in the UK where it always has done - London; home of the largest number of billionaires of any global city - according the the Sunday Times Rich List.