The Flybe codeshare for a growing number of airlines at MAN (I think it now includes VS, CX and EY - are there any others? I wonder why SQ don't use it?) in effect acts as a smaller version of BA's LHR shuttle.
It is a great idea that makes accesses to long haul flights from relatively remote parts of the UK and Europe that have minimal acess to a hub like LHR/AMS/CDG.
I hope that the forthcoming infrastructure improvements will make airside connections for the Flybe feed smoother than at present.
That's San Francisco, Beijing, Boston and (we think) Shanghai sorted. Where next?