I did my first flight on one of these in a while, and I had forgotten just how cramped the pods were, especially in the footwell. I did a YYZ-BOG overnight once and that sucked badly enough, but I can't imagine trying to spend an 8+ hour TATL in the damned things. Bin space also sucked being in 1A - the bins aren't good to begin with, and then with a bunch of emergency equipment and people having already taken up the rest of the bin space towards the front, I didn't enjoy having to put my stuff back in row 4.

It was better than the 7M8 or 32x I would have gotten if I had gone via YYZ instead of YUL, for sure, but very unpleasant compared to the 787 and 777. Although I've yet to fly any hard product on an A330 or A340 that I actually liked and would put anywhere other than Tier 3 of my hard product ratings (Tier 1 - things I like and will go out of my way or pay a premium to fly; Tier 3 - the ones I dislike and will go out of my way to avoid or require a discount to fly; TIer 2 - the mushy middle that's not great, not terrible, but okay). No wait, that's probably not true, I think I'd put Condor in Tier 2, it was decent.

But to me, the AC 333 product feels like a cheap knock-off of what they have on the Boeings.