My only thoughts are how bloody slow the A340 are even the newer long bugger -600 series econ speeds do not seem that high if your going across the Atlantic let alone across the huge Pacific ow. You would have to whatch out for being passed by Maui and his ancestors. I know speed is not eveything ( big picture ) but having sat from Madrid to Santiago and Santiago to Auckland in the A340 thinking even an ERJ145 goes faster than these things in ECON. Never again would rather have a deep and meaningful with me ex finacee about aspects of my personality and morales than go through travelling the globe @.78