Late evening flights and meals
I took a flight last night which took off from Zurich at 23:30 on a 3.5 hour flight. As we reached cruising altitude (and after a bit of turbulence over the Alps) all the cabin lights came on and a meal service was started.
Now I know I paid for this meal, but frankly I would have preferred they keep the lights down and we all get a bit of sleep; especially the rather fractious young children on board, for whom it was a very late night.
When I take the reverse journey which leaves at about 05:30, they deliberately tell us to shut the blinds after take off, keeps the lights down and encourage us to sleep until they serve breakfast about 2.5 hours later. I like this as I get to catch up a bit on the sleep lost by having to get to the airport for about 03:00.
What would you prefer?