Also Air China have managed to secure 2nd daily LHR flights. Does this mean MAN is off the cards? Not sure where the slots have come from:
Its not the slots that baffle me, but, where the room in the current UK-China bilateral has allowed these flights?
Apparently, the bilateral is currently 'fully utilised', yet there are at least 4 new weekly flights this winter to China (MU have increased from 5 to 6 weekly, and CA have moved the 4 flights from LGW to LHR and added 3 extra weekly flights to the schedule.)
However, with this news, the big looser could be LGW, as, with the extra flights to LHR, one can safely assume they will not be back at LGW next summer.