Can;t see this route happening at all now. Very cleverly, this whole sorry episode shows MAN in a good light. It means that they can show the rest of us that they have made attempts to get a service to HKG, but that it is fraught with difficulties...so hey-ho tose passngers will just have to keep filling up those BA shuttles to London, and we know how much MAplc love to keep BA happy!
SU did used to fly sporadically in to MAN from Leningrad and Moscow in the mid 90s - weekly I believe.
Maybe China Southern might give MAN a look in..?