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 to flush the toilets. Otherwise everyone seems to be in a relative calm. They gave us beverages about an hour ago and were just waiting. Wow. It doesnt sound good. How long have you been stuck there . We landed at 2 15. So about five hours. Wow. And the pilot is telling you it could be two hours more before you can get off. Did you hear what led to this . Reporter its unclear to us. Its a construction issue. As far as we know theres no power at the airport. Lucky for us. People are stuck in tram
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 i m not sure what it s called. the jet way. that s what i m 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, but there was a huge line for the escalator and i walked up to the t concourse all the way over and got out to here. such an ordeal. what kind of communication were you getting while you were on that plane for five hours? so the pilot gave us updates every half hour. we really didn t know what was going on until about 2:15.
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. announcements are made on the planes of the first class passengers give up their seats. us. o and delta air lines and we were out on the military lounge on the b-concourse where we ran into charlie tucker. charlie tucker is a veteran of the vietnam war. he says the way he and his fellow soldiers and airmen were treated coming back from that war where they were spat upon anvilfied really made him feel like he needs to do something for this current crop of troops. here is what charlie told me. because of th
danger ahead moved away, and, then, of course we have been at the airport ever since. bill: listen, you have a big job still ahead of you and i know you look that, working a lot of long hours and with regard to air travel in america, what airlines have been affected the most? we had the most devastation occur on our c-concourse, which has the most gates and has four airlines and, you have seen the video, i m sure, that wind tunnel effect that went ripping through the concourse, blowing out glass, all along the concourse and, a lot of roof damage and, other issues, remains closed and we have moved those four airlines that operated out of there, to our other concourses, and, american airlines, started operations today, in our d-concourse and they have normally 31 flights a day and airtran and frontier have been moved to our b-concourse and we have a regional commuter that will begin operations tomorrow, and all of that has happened in 24, 36 hours, to get those airlines
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 we ll 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 restaurants in the concourse. we ll work with all of thitation managers after the briefing to relocate those carriers to the b concourse or part of terminal 2 or a concourse to get them up and running. we ll talk to individual carriers about flight crew