Found this link from another site, if it copies correctly.
Andrew Cowan is chief operating officer of Manchester Airports Group - men newsdesk - Manchester Evening News
Andrew Cowan refers to some of the issues re longer queues etc. and quite rightly makes great play of the new CX only direct non-stop schedule service to China outside London. Interestingly, there is no comment about an anticipated service to mainland China being announced shortly, but perhaps we shouldn't read too much into that.