Posts in the category "Holidays":

Happy New Year!

Posted on January 1st, 2013 by Harriet Baskas

Happy New Year

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NORAD’s Christmas night

Posted on December 26th, 2012 by Harriet Baskas

Three airports, twelve hours of flying, one upgrade (on the longest leg; thank-you, Santa), and a ride on the light rail ride and in a taxi is all it took to get home to Seattle on Christmas Day from Maryland. Planes were full and there were plenty of families with babies and toddlers in tow; no doubt on their way home from grandparents’ houses.

I bet – like me – some of those families turned to NORAD on Christmas Eve to find out when Santa was heading their way. NORAD – the North American Aerospace Defense Command – not only tracked where Santa was, how many presents he had delivered and, according to this AP story, answered more than 111,000 phone calls, the agency also shared Santa-cam videos of the big guy in action.

 

 

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Merry Christmas!

Posted on December 25th, 2012 by Harriet Baskas

Santa

 

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Where’s Santa? NORAD, FAA & NASA know

Posted on December 24th, 2012 by Harriet Baskas

If you’re curious about where Santa is or how he’ll be getting around this year, there are plenty of tools to help out.

There’s the official NORAD Santa Tracker center with videos, activities, data & factoids.

 

The FAA is helping out -

And so is NASA ‘s John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA SPACEFLIGHT SANTA

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Santa arrives – early – at Heathrow Airport

Posted on December 3rd, 2012 by Harriet Baskas

Airports are gearing up for the holiday season and many are planning to offer entertainment, special events and even some contests and give-aways to passengers.

With Santa’s arrival this past weekend, it seems that Heathrow Airport is already in the swing of things.

Santa handed out iPads to some arriving passengers and will be surprising some other passengers with other gifts – including some fancy watches and Hamley’s teddy bears, over the next three weeks.

The airport is posting clues to the daily surprises on its Facebook page

Heathrow has lots of other surprises in store for travelers throughout December. Free chocolates will be handed out by the airport ‘Journey Team’ from the 10th through the 24th, carolers will be singing and Santa will be listening to Christmas wishes from the 14th through the 23rd. And on Friday, December 21st, when the airport expects the heaviest traffic, elves will be on hand to distribute mince pies – and 100 bottles of perfume.

Not heading to Heathrow this holiday season? There’s an on-line “load the sleigh” game you can play and possibly win some prizes as well.

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