Friday, April 27, 2018

Airport Code

From the MT:
"Moscow Airports Enact Strict New Code of Conduct"
Three Moscow airports have banned passengers from sleeping on benches, sitting on the floor, and riding airport trolleys. Visitors and passengers at Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky airports will face fines of 100-500 rubles for infractions such as placing baggage on seats and washing themselves in public toilets, according to new legislation passed by the Moscow region Duma. “People in staining and foul-smelling clothes, as well as those who use the airport for accommodation rather than hotels, could also be held to justice,” the regional administration’s website states. “This is especially pressing before the World Cup,” Oleg Grigoriyev, chairman of the regional Duma’s transport infrastructure committee, said Thursday.  Visitors will be informed of the extensive new rules of conduct via information stands. The bans do not yet apply to Vnukovo Airport.

^ I don't see how an international airport can force people not to sleep or sit on the floor - especially if they are in the secured-zone. The whole point of an airport is to be a place for passengers to wait for their flight (or the place to arrive from a flight) and if there's a delay due to weather, the airline, etc. then people are going to sleep and sit on the floor while they wait. I have slept in many airports around the world while waiting for a flight  - that is just what you do. It's not comfortable, but sometimes you  have to do what you have to do. ^


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