The article covers about the modern problems with bars in airports. Everyone who has been to an airport know the popularity amongst drinks in airports- there are bars everywhere. And they are almost always packed with people. Why is that? The alcohol calms some people down before they "ascend to 35,000 feet." However, author Wayne Curtis noticed that this hype has "cooled down" these past years due to certain problems. First, TSA and FAA clearances were required to enable bar staffs to sell alcohol in airports. Apparently, numerous bars have been rejected from obtaining these clearances- hence, obtaining them is somewhat a hard task. Another problem, mentioned in the essay, is that "airports are never in the hip parts of town where the cool-kid bartenders live." Also, employees have to go through the same process of passengers- they must go through the process of finding a parking space and going through airport security. Managers of airport restaurants an bars are working to direct the bars to a new direction that will lead to success.
Wayne Curtis uses a structure in which he proposes a problem and suggests a solution to it. By doing so, he successfully shows readers the message he is trying to transmit (that bars are losing their popularity in airports). By using second person pronouns in the introduction (i.e.-"you've got an hour until boarding starts [...] you're ready [...]."), Curtis engages his readers into the article, making the passage as a whole feel like a conversation between the author and the readers. The essay itself is persuading/convincing and shows a hint of urgency in the author's voice. Overall, the essay successfully shows what the main idea is and its solutions.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/12/your-airports-bartender-problem/382241/
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