Aaaanyway,
1)I see the 'united' continental B757 has been in today. Is this the first UK visit, or even more so, the first european outing since the conversion to the new airline?
2) Ive read elsewhere that DL may send to A330 on the ATL-MAN run next year. This is partly because loads/cargo have picked up, and some B767-400's moving to JFK and A330's moving to ATL.
3) It is long rumoured CX will come to MAN, and again Ive read that CX is about to add 4 weekly HKG-XXX-CDG and return flights on the A343. Some say DME, some say FCO. But given DME is already an open route, FCO being off the great circle route and we were so close to having a HKG-DME-MAN on an A343, could MAN be the intermidiate stop?
I dont know about yields, but there are certainly enough pax heading off that way. (the CAA last counted 138000 pax heading MAN-LHR-HKG per anum)