Lambert News
Joelyn Levy popped out the umbrella while dropping off her parents at Terminal 1 on Friday.
The brutal summer is officially coming to an end with the extended reach of Hurricane Isaac. The hurricane throttled the gulf coast this week and the super slow bands of rain have reached Missouri. At Lambert, visitors were forced to find their umbrellas, which probably haven’t seen any tours of duty for months. The St. Louis area is expected to receive up to five inches of rain through the weekend ending with a sunny Labor Day on Monday. After punishing heat and widespread drought, there will be few complaints if Isaac holds back on flooding and delivers just a well needed soaker.
The Airport Experience renovation program at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport crossed another milestone this week with the opening of new US Airways and Cape Air ticket counters. They are located across from the new American Airlines ticket area between Terminal 1 entrances 3 & 4. Both airlines moved their ticketing operation from other areas of the upper level Ticketing Lobby.
The new ticket counters feature more customer friendly self-check in kiosks and new baggage conveyer systems that will be activated at a later date. The renovations also includes new terrazzo flooring. Lambert is renovating all ticket counter areas in phases as part of the $70 million Airport Experience Program. Other renovations, including new ceilings, new lighting, new signage and improved restrooms, are ongoing throughout Terminal 1.
Lambert was welcomed with blue skies and the Blue Angels today. The U.S. Navy and Marines aviation demonstration team landed with five Boeing F/A-18s and famous "Fat Albert," a Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules. The team landed around 9 a.m. for half-day visit at Boeing on the north side of Lambert's airfield.
The Blue Angels are scheduled to participate in the Chicago Air and Water Show this upcoming weekend.
Check out more pics from the Blue Angels visit at Lambert.
American Airlines’ Jim McDermott marshalls a MD-80 aircraft into the gate.
They are the men and women who work around and under the wing to turn an arriving flight into a departing flight. They are ramp agents and Lambert has some of the most dedicated around. We caught up with Jim McDermott who has been marshalling planes into the gates for 44 years. He started with Ozark, transitioned to TWA and now proudly wears AA on his safety vest. Ramp agents load and unload luggage and do all the temporary power hookups to the aircraft while it’s at the gate. And when the Captain wants to leave, ramp agents make it happen with a big push from a tug to clear the jetway.