boilermaker,
"The new A330s (-200s and 300s) that GF has on order will not make it to places such as MNL."
I hope you are flying around on the A330 at the moment coz if you are then you really don't know your airplane. The A330 has done MNL & PVG.
Regarding th B777, I wonder if anyone is going to get axed for this fiasco!!!