What's also interesting with this news is that in 2016, Manchester introduces 4 long haul routes which will be in the top 5 longest flights from Manchester.
The top 5 longest flights from Manchester will be:
Phuket at 12:19 flight time
Mauritius at 12:16 flight time
Hong Kong at 11:35 flight time
Los Angeles at 10:25 flight time
Beijing at 10:20 flight time
All but Hong Kong are new routes for 2016! Quite impressive really.
Interestingly, if it were non stop, Singapore would be the longest route at 13:05 flight time.