Flight delays can be stressful. Sometimes, when our schedule is ruined because of an unprecedented flight delay, we would fantasize about having a drink or two just to while away the time, or simply cure our irritability. Soon, the Missouri State may turn this into a reality.
Residents, travelers, and bar owners from Missouri are getting excited about a new law currently being reviewed at the Missouri house. When this bill becomes law, passengers may purchase alcohol for take-out and bring it with them in the waiting area of the terminal gates of all airports in the Missouri State.
Currently, this bi-partisan bill has already received major approval from the Missouri House, with only 16 members in the 162 members of the chamber against it. Another vote session would still need to commence before the bill could move on to the Senate.
One of the lawmakers against the bi-partisan bill is State Representative Stacy Newman. She's worried that this kind of law would instigate unruliness in passengers and flight crews, which could damage the workflow inside the airport. "I think the last thing that crew members or any of us want are intoxicated, unruly passengers at 30,000 feet," she said.
Another resident, Chris Clarambeau, is also not in favor of this new law. "You see examples of people who get violent or are just generally unruly and argumentative," he said. "And the flight starts and then the plane has to get stuck and security has to come and take the person off the plane and a hundred people on the plane have been inconvenienced because of it."
But this is not the first time for this kind of law to take effect in the States. Nashville, Memphis, Houston, Portland, Oregon, and Tampa are some of the cities who already has this policy in place, and according to them, they have only seen positive results.
Missouri lawmakers have passed this bill in hopes to improve customer satisfaction in their airports. Also, it would increase business revenue for airport concessionaires, most particularly in St. Louis Lambert International Airport.
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