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Old Apr 2, 2020, 12:13 am
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storewanderer
 
Join Date: Mar 2011
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I am in Reno, NV and the local airport that saw 8,000 passengers a day last year now sees 650 passengers a day.

The casinos and ski resorts are all closed up tight.

The rental car agencies have cars parked all over the perimeter of the airport on dirt lots; thousands of cars.

Enterprise has a number of locations around town; they've closed all of the locations around town (a couple are in casinos, but most are strip malls), but the airport location and a second location about a half mile from the airport (used to be the airport location, before Enterprise got a space inside the actual airport). As many car dealers/auto body shops are nearby, that Enterprise does a pretty heavy business on insurance rentals. Those two locations that are still open, are running on reduced hours.

So I would say, how would the health of any business be, when the foot traffic of your main customer source (air passengers) falls by 90%?

Probably not so good...

Some folks are trying hard to get businesses reopened up here in Reno but I really don't think it is going to happen. Given the number of cases every day keeps rising, sort of tough to justify reopening even if there "aren't that many cases here." We closed the economy and once that decision was made we need to follow through with it and hope it stops the spread of this virus. I was critical at the time they closed the economy but accepted the decision, and now, the worst thing you could do now is re-open it too soon.
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