Back then I remember most of us just assuming that Laura would eventually come back, and L&L would have another chance.
This scene is so bittersweet in hindsight because we now know it was the last time we'd ever get romantic L&L.
I'm more grateful for the Cabin scenes and this airport goodbye now than I was when it first aired. They spread those cabin scenes out across multiple days, and really gave L&L a chance to hash out their history and find a little closure.
But I'm going by memory. Now that my wife and me are working our way through their story chronologically (we're at the end of 97), I'm going to wait to watch those 2008 scenes again when we get to the them together.
I'm fascinated by how I'll see them now, and how my wife will take them.