nope, no, never, not at all!
Spanners, what are you saying no to? A CX route to MAN, MAN being an intermediate stop or a HKG-DME-MAN routing as you highlighted that bit of my text too.
With regards to the HKG-DME-MAN route I posted, I agree that one will never happen again as DME is well established now and very unlikely to be split again, I was commenting on the fact they announced and put it up for sale before it was cancelled due to govt permission not being granted not so long ago (2007-8??).