The airports re-opened late in the afternoon Monday and the Delta airlines check in counter was a frightful sight. Dozens of gamblers that had been holed up in AC casinos while the storm passed through were antsy to get on a plane and go back home.
"I waited in line for hours before I even found out when I would be leaving," said Mario Bucher. "I have been in Atlantic City for a week, and I didn't get to see half of the casinos I came to explore. I just want to go home."
It would be another couple of hours before Bucher boarded his flight for the West Coast, but his story was similar to hundreds of travelers that were leaving airports in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The frustration was boiling over, with tensions running high in the long lines and packed terminals.
Atlantic City casinos were in a catch twenty-two when it came to their customers over the holiday weekend. It was good for the casinos that gamblers were stuck at the facilities without anyplace to go, but it was also bad that a new batch of gamblers could not come in because of the flight cancellations and delays.
Casinos in the Northeast are springing up in almost every state, and the expansion has hurt the AC casino industry. Revenue started to slide during the economic recession, and continued to nosedive this past summer when Pennsylvania casinos started to operate table games.
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