catharsis

I would agree with the slooooooowwww thing though :-)

I was using Ctrip last week and it was slow but usable.

I have been unable to book flights (although I wished to) on ctrip for the last 72 hours at least because it is simply unusably slow- even if very patient the slowness exceeds the timeout period and no response is received.

SO ... I have had to start checking FT to see what other websites I should be using !