What is it with the Australian contingent? If they disagree with your post, their first response is to fling a rude remark at you. It's not stupid. They want us to arrive on schedule for ALL flights; it says so in the closing sentence of his email. Maybe in Oz it's considered OK to sit fat dumb and happy until someone tells you you can go. Personally I prefer to chivvy them on for an early departure, and in most cases, when the usual incompetence doesn't prevail, it works.