You bet. Out at the McCarran Airport in Las Vegas, they take in some $38.5 million a year from slot machines placed throughout the airport. People play the 1,300 slots when their flights are late, when their flights are on time, and when they've missed their flights. Fair enough in the City of Chance. Now the airport commissioners plan to place some 40 slot machines in the facility's new consolidated rent-a-car center. They're not sure how much money these one-armed bandits will bring in, but it can't hurt. After all, the annual take from this form of automated dice-rolling is more than 10% of the city's total annual airport revenues. This does raise the question: what if they put reminders of a city's major identifying activities in the airport? Would Washington have hot-air machines?
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Sure bet: slot machines at the gate
You bet. Out at the McCarran Airport in Las Vegas, they take in some $38.5 million a year from slot machines placed throughout the airport. People play the 1,300 slots when their flights are late, when their flights are on time, and when they've missed their flights. Fair enough in the City of Chance. Now the airport commissioners plan to place some 40 slot machines in the facility's new consolidated rent-a-car center. They're not sure how much money these one-armed bandits will bring in, but it can't hurt. After all, the annual take from this form of automated dice-rolling is more than 10% of the city's total annual airport revenues. This does raise the question: what if they put reminders of a city's major identifying activities in the airport? Would Washington have hot-air machines?
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