I posted further back that the CEO of westjet has already singled out Edinburgh and Manchester as 2 potential points in the future.
Also, one has to wonder just what MAN has to do to get a China route. Dublin seem confident Air China is about to launch on a market of 40,000 per year.
MAN-HKG alone had 136,000 passengers last year and still not a sniff of a service, let alone what the China market as a whole is worth (if HKG has 136,000 indirect passengers the China market must be 200,000+ per year). Just bizarre they have not managed to secure a flight yet.