This morning at 7:31, the departure area of Nice airport’s terminal 1 looked empty. The Lufthansa plane to Munich had already left, as had the Swiss flight to Zurich (though why anyone would want to go there when one can go to Basel is beyond me). Iberia’s passengers to Madrid were boarding already for a 7:45 departure, so the British Airways flight to London was pretty much the only reason to be in this part of the terminal. Eric had to check in for this flight as he was traveling to New York and Raleigh via London. For once, the automatic check-in machines gave him boarding passes all the way to New York, but the line at the baggage drop was actually longer than the check-in line, and moving about as slowly. This is probably intentional: the Brits just love queues...