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No Slot Machines for Airport

The Florida legislature has decided that Miami International Airport is going to have to figure out another way of getting their revenue, as it is not going to be through the addition of slot machines. The state rejected the airport’s bid to bring in slot machines citing a number of reasons why they did not qualify as a location that could legally offer them.

For starters they said that the airport was not a pari-mutuel facility, and under state law and county law, that was the only way to get slot machines. Plus they said that the airport did not qualify as a person, which also kept them from allowing them to bring in the slot machines. Finally, they were not going to be able to have their slot machine operation set up within the year, which is also a requirement, and therefore could not get approval.

The airport says that it costs them roughly $600 million a year to run their airport and with their latest expansion by the end of 2014 they will be looking at $1.1 billion a year. This is an amount that they say that they cannot afford to pay out without slot machines to help them offset the costs. The state said that they did not feel that this warranted slot machines.

The airport says that with their “crippling debt” that they needed to get slot machines to stay alive, but opponents say that they should not have gone forward with their expansion considering the revenue problem that they had. Local racinos are thrilled that the slot machines won’t be coming in as they were worried about losing their slot machine revenue to the airport.

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