You cannot see China Southern doing three successful flights bringing pax to "our neck of the woods" BUT then moving to Manchester
Ohhhhhh where to start.
It's China "let's buy A380s even though we don't have one route for which we need them" Southern, the bargain basement fares specialist to the region flying brand spanking new B787s from LHR. They are not, shall we say, commercially driven. This is a handful of charter flights in peak summer and will have no bearing, zero, squat diiddly nothing on whether Air China decide to launch PEK-MAN. Best not to obsess over this, it's good news for BHX for sure, will it affect MAN? I doubt it.