I realize nobody here is a fortune teller or psychic by profession (well, probably not) but I wonder if anyone might have any idea at all about how long this problem might last - I'm on the verge of buying a UA/CX RTW trip starting in mid august and ending mid september. I realize there's still some service but it's obviously reduced at this point.

Should I go with the star RTW instead? At this point I can't even book my flights because the travel agent says they won't allow booking europe > hk (which I had already gathered from this forum, but I was stupidly hoping somehow it would work anyway). Could this take a long time? I'm very interested in flying CX for the first time (in J class no less) but I'm decidedly less excited at the prospect of getting stuck somewhere.

thanks.

[This message has been edited by sambailey (edited 07-09-2001).]