United Christmas Present: How Airline Keeps Kids Faith in Miracles

If you have been eating these days anywhere in the world - from Frankfurt to Honolulu, you’ll be able to see a flight departing for the North Pole on the airport display, do not hesitate, that’s how it is. This is stated in the video "Voices of America".

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This time it's New York, the real check-in desks with real dogs escorting passengers on an expedition.

“A ticket for this secret flight cannot be bought for any money, cannot be obtained for any miles, it cannot be begged or obtained through connections, such tickets only go to very special boys and girls who definitely deserve them,” says journalist Anna Nelson.

They can hardly be called lucky, but this day will definitely be happy. Dozens of children whose life is a schedule between chemotherapy sessions and heavy surgeries will fly.

For more than 30 years, United Airlines has been honoring this annual tradition for many companies around the world. And now, before Christmas, the planes are in a hurry to deliver to Santa those whose wishes need to be fulfilled as soon as possible. Time for many of these passengers is a tough factor.

4-year-old Trinity never flew an airplane and never saw Santa, the girl survived many heart operations.

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When asked who Santa looks like, Trinity will state that he is "like a doctor in a white fur coat."

“She has a Christmas dream - she wants a doll's house, a kitchen set for him and all the princesses. That’s all she asked for,” says the girl’s mother. But all Trinity's mother wants is to “just live.”

This flight is an attempt to tear not only children from tough reality, but also their parents, who learned to smile, talking about the most terrible events in their life.

“My 8-year-old son has a rare form of cancer that gave no symptoms other than a simple runny nose, with which we ended up in the hospital. We are now halfway through our 10-month course of treatment,” says Boden’s mother.

“My biggest dream is to end cancer and never have it again,” says Boden himself.

All members of this crew are not just volunteers. 1500 United Airlines employees competed for a place in the Christmas Boeing, then the best of the best, sewed suits and decorated the plane themselves, the pilots got the roles of a deer and an elf.

“I flew to the North Pole last year. I was so impressed by what I saw then that I called the chief of pilots this year, just begging to do that flight again,” says pilot Rob Reed.

Pilots promised the children the softest take-off and landing, of which only capable. An hour a fabulous plane circled over New York, turning gray clouds into fluffy clouds. During this time, the children sang, read poetry and in the most inventive way supported the legend that Santa was already waiting for them at the North Pole.

Then the plane landed at the same airport, although the terminal during the flight became the real home of Santa Claus. Serious pilots and stewardesses, flight controllers and meteorologists turned into snowmen, Superman, gingerbread men. From such a meeting, even adults were speechless.

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The main hero of the holiday was the head of the luggage department, carefully hiding under the beard of Santa. And if everything is real here, then personal baggage should also be delivered to the exact addressees. Each child received the gift that he ordered Santa.

“Last year there was a very sick little boy, he was struggling to walk and when he saw Santa he ran. It was a moment that is forever etched in my memory and one that I will always cherish,” said Jill Kaplan, president of the airline in New York and New Jersey.

Even if passengers still cannot remember what happened to them that day, pictures will always remain in memory.

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