I also notice the Birmingham Post has the tag line 'Birmingham to get the first scheduled flights to China in the UK from a non-London airport, 2 months before Manchester gets them'.
Further down the page, the newspaper then picks up on its own incorrect tag to say 'the flights will be charter flights to begin with'.
Soooooo, not the first scheduled flights at all then, even by their own admission in the very same article. Just a slight fail there!