This is interesting. I will resist the Newfie jokes -- and leave that to our Canadian colleagues. My experience lately in the States is that flight attendants have been waking up passengers before landing & take-off, citing safety regs. Waking people up is probably a good idea -- imagine having to evacuate the plane and having two sleeping pax between you & the aisle. john -- John F. Kurtzke, C.S.C. Department of Mathematics 278 Buckley Center University of Portland Portland, OR 97203 503-943-7377 kurtzke@up.edu