and a concourse and b concourse. the, i am trying to think if there is anything else. we ll 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 others that are here to help. there is a lot of work to do ass ron talked about and a gentlemen here to talk about that is the director of our public works. he s our chief engineer from the city of st. louis. that is rich bradley who will be in charge of getting it back in shape, rich. good morning, last night we
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 we re working on some promising news and we hope to work out with our airlines and we ll 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 we ll be happy to express that to the people who are watching and interested how they ll be flying in and out of st. louis over the weekend. the spokesman for lambert international airport by phone, to explain what happened out there with either straight winds or tornados hitting directly that airport. so many people, their lives saved because of quick thinking there on the ground. thank you so much, jeff. jamie: and while we re on the subject of flying, there
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 that s american s concourse. they hope to move to b concourse in the near future. nothing is moving out here. i went inside and it s quiet. how often do you get into an airport in broad daylight and there s just nothing going on? everything is closed. on a saturday. on a saturday. everything is shut down. it s like back to 9/11. there s just nothing happening here except cleanup, repair folks are in 24/7 but even with that the mayor said it may be days before they can get this airport completely up and
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. that s delta. then you have terminal two. formerly the east terminal. that s 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 they hope to get the airport 100% by the middle of the week. we ll see. you look at the aerial footage from concourse c and wonder, it will be a lot of cleanup plus jetwayses were dama were damage. runways are fine. they have gone up and cleaned up any debris. they re ready to go. just a matter of the airlines trying to figure out when they can get planes in here. this all is bearing on when they get power back on here at the rest of the airport. like i said, there is some power on. most of it is
concourse, that s about 70% of our total capacity here at the airport. we re going to have more of a struggle with the c concourse. the carriers on the c concourse are american, frontier, cape air, and i m missing one. airtran. thank you. and with those carriers we re going to be working here after this press conference to try and relocate them. it s 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 extensive damage to a number of the actual restaurants on the concourse. we ll be working with all of the station managers after this briefing to try and look at how to relocate those carriers to the b concourse or to part of terminal two or a concourse to get those up and running as well. we ll have to talk to individual carriers about their flight crew availability.