The Sleigh Department has announced that regular test flights of Santa’s sleigh will soon end and that all test flight pilots are being recalled to the North Pole. It is not known when they are actually scheduled to return. That could be, in part, due to the weather and the current status of Operation Airlift. […]
Emergency meetings as being held as quickly changing weather conditions are making things worse for Operation Airlift. Not only is snow piling up at a record rate but increasing winds have cut visibility to near zero. The sleighs of Operation Airlift, which are crucial to Santa’s delivery effort, can barely get off the ground in […]
As reported earlier this week at SantaUpdate.com, the weather at the North Pole is having an impact on Operation Airlift. Operation Airlift is the effort to support Santa’s flight operations from the North Pole by sending thousands of sleighs powered by tens of thousands of reindeer as Christmas freight, flight support and elves move to […]
Santa’s A-Team of Rudolph, Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner and Blitzen have officially joined the test flights of Santa’s sleigh, currently somewhere over Japan. You can see the map tracking the test flights at this link. The inclusion of Santa’s reindeer in the test flights, especially in December, is quite rare. But handlers […]
