I know what you mean George, but it was about getting an extra hour in bed and even more so about one less hour spent hanging around in an airport which drives me nuts, especially when it's gonna be 20 hours plus before you next see the outside of an airport or plane again. To get up at 3am to wait in an empty airport didn't appeal. We have always got to the airport 3 hours prior to the departure time on previous trips and it feels like a waste of time. If there had been any doubts after checking with the airline or hotel about times and transport, we would have booked a cab as we had originally planned.

Dave.