B Concourse News Today

Theyre telling us that theyre starting slowly to unload these places. There are five sets of those. So its very slow and were pretty far back in the line. Its going to be at least two hours. He also says he doesnt know whats going to happen to us once were deplaned, where well go in the airport and what resources will be available to us. He said it will take a number of days before things get back to normal. Were in it for the long haul. Weve totally run out of water. Theyve asked us kindly not ...

Stairs onto the tarmac. they had guys with the light making us a little pathway. we walked down the pathway and there was another set of stairs into the plane tube -- im not sure what its called. >> the jet way. >> thats what im looking for. it was really steep and then when we got into the b concourse, everything was dark and there were people with flashlights. then i had to walk all the way to where the plane train would be, walk down the escalator and all the way over to ground transportation...

Recruits as they head home for the holidays as they contemplate what comes next, rely on your training and always remember a honor to serve in the u.s. military. jenna. jenna: sounds like great advice. private ready is our kind of guy. proud of him and the rest of hess teammates as well. what is the reaction at airport, john. >> reporter: interesting to be here at after atlanta airport partly in the south where there is tremendous approval of the military. they get standing ovations. announcemen...

Concourse, that is cent percent of our total capacity here in the airport. we are going to have more of a struggle is with the c concourse, carriers on the cconcourse are american and frontier and cape air . i am missing one. air tran. thank you . and with those carriers well be working after this press conference to relocate them. it is going to take a while before the c concourse is functional and a good portion of the roof is gone, every window is out of that and extensive damage in the resta...

And a concourse and b concourse. the, i am trying to think if there is anything else. well put tweets out throughout the day and update you as much as possible on where we are at and where we hope to be tomorrow. a great deal of thank to all of the people that came out in the night and helped us to get to where we are at this morning and certainly a better place than where we thought we would be last night. >> thank you and thanks to the leadership and thanks to all of the airport employees and ...

Online for up to 70% of our gates. our a concourse and terminal 2 gates did receive minimal impact. and the b concourse, four airlines will not be up and running, would take several weeks or more months to get that back restored, but were working on some promising news and we hope to work out with our airlines and well know in the next hour or so whether, what the timetable is for the first flight to come back in. >> kelly: jeff as soon as you find out. please let us know at fox news and well be...

The number one air carrier here is southwest. this he have six planes here on the ground. one wadamaged. some of the baggage handling equipment was blown into the plane. and this airport by the way averages about 200 flights a day. all those flights are off the boards today and probably tomorrow and you got to think that concourse c will be a long-term fixup process and thats americans concourse. they hope to move to b concourse in the near future. nothing is moving out here. i went inside and i...

Frontier airlines and american with no place to go right now. they hope to get those flights as we were told at the press conference some of the flights into b concourse. a is already full. thats delta. then you have terminal two. formerly the east terminal. thats in good shape. this he have power down there. southwest is the number one air carrier here at lambert st. louis international airport. so we probably will have some southwest flights going out maybe some delta flights tomorrow. and the...

Concourse, thats about 70% of our total capacity here at the airport. were going to have more of a struggle with the c concourse. the carriers on the c concourse are american, frontier, cape air, and im missing one. airtran. thank you. and with those carriers were going to be working here after this press conference to try and relocate them. its going to take a while before the c concourse can be functional. a good portion of the roof is absolutely gone. every window is out of that as well as ex...

The airlines will need to get situated with having aircraft here. well have to work with them to see what their flexibilities are in getting that completed. we hope that by this afternoon at 2:00 well be able to report once weve talked with the airlines on just how well well be tomorrow in terms of the number of operations. again, we ask that everybody call the airline. do not call the airport. the airlines will have the flight information that is specific to themselves. we will not have any dep...