Employees often don costumes including magicians and Santa's helpers known as elves to entertain the children.
Host airlines donate venues (gate areas), aircraft, fuel, and fellow sponsors.
[citation needed] Air Labrador operated a fantasy flight with a Santa visit on board to the plane on the tarmac while taxiing.
[12] British Airways operates a special day return trip for kids with life-threatening illnesses from Glasgow Prestwick Airport to Rovaniemi Airport, Finland,[13] located near the Arctic Circle, to ride snowmobiles, take husky dog sled rides and meet Santa and his reindeer.
Silverliners - a group of former Eastern Airlines fight attendants - organize a Fantasy Flight from Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan.
[26] Southwest Airlines operated its fantasy flights at Baltimore Thurgood Marshall Airport with the Johns Hopkins Children's Center for years.
Sun Country Airlines operated fantasy flights at Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport.
[citation needed] Winnipeg International Airport, Skyservice Airlines, and sponsors[47] operated "north pole express", annual fantasy flights for children from (a) chosen local public school(s) with a takeoff, flight,[48][49] pilot's announcement of a Santa sighting,[50] and an onboard visit from Santa.