Maybe you should hope UA doesn't restart the route. Then they'd have to fly you to NRT or HKG and put you into the superior business classes of either NH or CA. BTW hope you're packing respirators. Air is hot, humid and foul in the summer...with no Olympic shut downs to be expected this year!

I suspect the Chinese economy will be tanking any time now, and particularly the segment relying on cheap exports. This means far less business travel by NAmerican and European folks contracting products and thus a severe cut back in the number of seats across the Pacific to all Chinese destinations. This will make the slump in SEAsia a decade ago look like a blip!