Flight Status...

Our flight to JFK was right on time, leaving us more than 4 hours to get to our gate for the flight to Nice. Everything was going well until about 15 minutes before schedule boarding time, when a gate change was announced. That led to pretty much utter chaos, as a flight to Barcelona and our flight were going out of the same gate. (The "gate" wasn't actually a gate -- it was loading onto a raised carrier that transported us to our airplane.) Wheels were up about 2 hours and 20 minutes late. But, proving the existence of time warps and worm holes, we only were 45 minute late for our arrival in Nice. To make up for all our delays, we found that our hotel rooms were ready when we arrived, many hours ahead of the 3:00 p.m. posted check-in time.