That's alright. At least the Canadian Embassy in Washington made their best 10 list of the world's ugliest buildings, putting Arthur Ericson in such estemed company as EMPei, Richard Rogers, Frank Gehry et al. As for doing something untoward with my coffee, my only complaint is that you should have posted this at the end of the original thread rather than starting a new one.

As for the ranking itself, it seems in line with the impressions most FTers have posted in their flight reports. All the top carriers have introduced sleeper/bed seats [BA, CX and SQ], and in overall experience BA's First is hard to beat even by Concorde, which is an experience of its own. I am just puzzled by the inclusion of Virgin, which does not offer a true Frist Class product. But since this was a self-selected sample based on advertisers like Virgin paying to get included in the first place, what can one expect. They provide a very good J-product which ranks up there with many carriers' First, though still lacking some of the key items which make for the First Class experience: catering, additional space, privacy...

[Have I passed 300-words yet?]