With an initial order of 'about 20 aircraft', operating initially 2 or 3, it's doubtful that MAN will be one of the first destinations served.
All this speculation about MAN services, on a variety of different sites is driving me nuts, and all for the sake of a dodgy report by a dodgy hack linking Air Asia with an unlikely Virgin and easyjet. Anybody who gets too enthusiastic about the constant annual deluge of unsubstantiated rumours deserves all the disappointment coming to them.
For the time-being, if it's the Far East and Oz/New Zealand you want, there's a reasonable choice of SQ, EK, QR and EY.