Not much can be said in favor of overnight travel. Perhaps flying during the wee hours prevents a waste of precious daylight. But when you sign up for a red-eye flight, you are enlisting to attempt sleep while shoe-horned into a space as small as a kennel cage ... and one that you share with three other squirmy passengers. So from the outset, let's agree that overnight travel has its drawbacks. But travel implies a destination, and sometimes the overnighter end...