Vegas Considers Adding a Liquor Store

I've posted here before about how airports have faced lower fee revenue from airlines due to operating flights with smaller aircraft or elimination of service all together. One way to deal with that, as I wrote here, was increase parking rates. Vegas, however, has decided to get more creative by floating the idea of putting in a liquor store near the baggage claim, according to a post on Brett Snyder's BNET blog.

Would we expect anything different from the airport that has slots in the terminal?

But it makes sense. Vegas has been hurting of late. Passengers in 2009 were down 8.2% year-over-year. Remember that nice little America West hub that US Airways acquired? That's pretty much dead. One big cut was the elimination of America West's overnight operation as fuel went up, and US Airways has now decided to focus its efforts in the West on Phoenix.

So, the powers that be have decided that a liquor store would be a good idea to boost its revenue.  Right now, the airport needs approval to start requesting bids on the project. So let's see how this one plays out.