travellerK - ignore this comment. It's coming from someone who rarely flies AC and doesn't have a clue about what s/he is talking about. If you look through the various threads here, you will find s/he posts something derogatory about AC in many of them. I've generally had excellent, and sometimes exceptional, service from AC FA's. Are there better products out there? Absolutely, but AC is far, far from the bottom of the list. Any by the way, unlike contikpaul, i actually fly AC - nearing 160 segments this year so far. Book AC and enjoy the trip. And no, I don't work for, or have anything to do with AC or AP.