It does make me wonder what MAN has to do to get a service to Hong Kong/China. Its deffinately politics stopping a prospective flight. The figures support a flight working for an airline I know for a fact the yield could be there is people swap for the direct flight. Its just beggars belief.
I'll be more certain that its Political when the Chinese announce the next French destination in the coming weeks.
Understand either of Lyon/Marseille or Nice could be on the cards.
Something stinks if these get a service and Manchester remains side watered !
Another thing for general interest through LAX_LHR you probably already know
CX are playing the 80% trick at LHR through spring
- Clearly that fifth flight (that might have come to Manchester according to Spanners had the NZ slot not be made available ) has dumped far too many economy seats into that particular market !
Anywhere else and the rotation would have been canned and aircraft redeployed - Hey-oh but the black hole doesn't distort the market does it ? ( the answer is clearly two consecutive letters - anything else and you will be burned at the stake as a heretic) -(Yes copied and pasted so what)