While it didn't go into details, Emirates has said Manchester is its 2nd highest O&D market in the world after London. It beat places such as New York, Manilla and Paris.
Not a bad accolade to have, and shows MAN-DXB really isn't just about accessing the DXB hub.
So your saying that over 600 of the 799k between MAN-DXB are O&D passengers then!
Second busiest O&D market in UK maybe. If memory is correct last year or year before there was details and something like 60,000 was O&D