Living relatively close to Gatwick & Heathrow, there are always scheduled flight options a plenty for us, for the Balearics, USA, European Alps and so on. :)
Not precious, just that we have enough money to select decent daytime flight times. Plus the avoiding the consequence of grumpy, knackered kids at the start of a holiday.
Everyone to their own, don't you agree?
None of us being early morning people, we simply avoid them and pay extra to fly at better times.
Also, we haven't taken charter flights/package holiday for many years, always booking everything independently.
Getting next to no sleep, leaves everyone knackered for a couple of days = a...