The Air China word was just a smoke screen for the HKG flight, which seems to be a lot more solid,
All fingers are pointing hard at CX !
and you can forget NZ - period. I emailed Rob Fyfe and got this back -
''The challenge for us is the through traffic – we are at a material disadvantage flying a route where we don’t have a home market at one end of the route. The home market carriers at either end of the Hong Kong – UK market have a material advantage over Air New Zealand in terms of feed''