Good to see the comments coming in. I am clearly not alone.

I am UK based and have found a couple of UK suppliers who have the old Focus range so am ordering a couple of years worth. No messing about with prescription checking over here (an anti-competitive practise to be sure).

Does anyone have the email address to complain to CibaVision? Their public claims that the Air Optix replacements are same must be refuted. The replacement is materially worse, as can be seen from the testimonials here, and they should give consumers a choice to stick with Focus or not...