ATL airport bans non-ticket holders
Black Enterprise is reporting that the Hatfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has made a major change. Non-ticket holders will no longer be able to come inside the airport at all 24 hours a day. Hatfield Jackson is one of the biggest airports in the world and has problems with the homeless loitering, sleeping, and asking for money. This is said to be a safety measure to cut down on airport traffic.
Virginia airports are not on the same scale as ATL but could one day decide to ban everyone who does not have a ticket from entering. Last summer my middle grandchild and I arrived early at the Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport to pick up his mother and he asked if he could go inside and watch the planes land.
Virginia airports might follow the ATL example.Photo byPhil MosleyonUnsplash
Virginia airports might one day ban non-ticket holders
As we walked through the lower level there was a female employee who kept watching us even as we got on the escalator. I felt very uncomfortable and was expecting her at any moment to ask why we were there. There used to be a homeless camp near the Roanoke airport and Hershberger Rd. but I have not heard of any problems inside the facility.