Pope of Rome: ad orientem

In what is big news for the Latin church, the Pope of Rome celebrates his first public mass as pope ad orientem (facing East). I had heard in a dinner party just last night that it was a rumored to happen soon. The hope for the trad-Caths is that a domino effect will come into play and more parishes will do the same world-wide. Those that can anyway, as near me many altars are configured so as to make it impossible (raised on the Eastern side and a drop off on the Western side).