We just returned from our first Regent cruise, around South America on Regent Voyager. One of the main reasons we booked with Regent was that they promised business class seats on overseas flights. Our flights from Toronto to Santiago were fine. However, when we arrived at the airport in Buenos Aires for our return flight, American Airways told us we had been downgraded to economy because they changed to a smaller plane and didn’t have enough business class seats. There were several Regent passengers who were downgraded. After much protest we were put in premium economy, but for a 10 1/2 hour flight, that still was not very comfortable, and my legs were swollen for days after we got home. On Monday we received an email from American Airways that a refund of $1062 each was being sent to Regent. I would hope that will be passed on to us as we ultimately paid for it as part of our cruise fare. By the way, we did check in online, with seats in business class, several hours before we went to the airport, but that didn’t seem to make any difference to them.