How true. One of the reasons I switched most of my flights from KL to AF is the fact that their early flight out of ATH is at 5:40 am, i.e. 4:30 your time, gaining one hour of sleep at the Sofitel. At any rate, tomorrow I also have one of those early ones, though with LX this time: AF to "deep" Africa in C was 11800 US$, LX about 3000!