Do you really think BA has Cathay's arm up it's back preventing them flying HKG-MAN?
the question remains why CX have failed to add a complimentary service on the A340 say
A service on said A340 was very nearly launched, to the point the route was put on sale!
I dont know the truth behind it but most seemed to say it was bmi who threw their toys out of the pram that time preventing the service starting.
EK fly to their hub, QR to theirs, EY to theirs and all the time, oneworld are loosing pax over this. It is a good question now as to why a counter attack has not begun by CX from their hub.
The amount of cargo CX shift Via MAN, surely that alone could absorb a lot of the costs of a MAN-HKG route?