Buying booze at an airport luggage carousel will soon join the “only in Vegas” list.
Clark County commissioners are actively looking for a vendor to run a liquor store at McCarran International Airport’s baggage claim areas.
McCarran will be the only airport in the U.S. where highly spirited travelers could shop for euphoric fueling spirits as they await their bags to come down the turnstile.
Randall Walker, the airport’s aviation director, estimates that the store would bring in $400,000 to $600,000 a year. Definitely not chump change in a stale economy. Equally important, the innovative approach would help the county help curb the fees on airline, which, in turn, would give airline carriers less reason to cut flights into the Entertainment Capital of the World.
It’s wasn’t a slam-dunk decision, though. Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak resisted the idea and asked that the board put off action for at least a month so that businesses, travelers, the taxicab authority and others can weigh in. But his colleagues rejected the feeble plea, so he finally gave in and joined the pack in approving the booze store.
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