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North Pole Flight Command celebrated the 300 day marker to Santa’s launch by welcoming Santa, for the first time this year, to North Pole Flight Command.

In a general gathering in the large hangar in Flight Command with more than 3000 elves in attendance Santa spoke at the invitation of Elf Roger Star, director of North Pole Flight Command.

It was the first time this year Santa has said anything publicly to a large gathering of elves.

In his speech Santa thanked the many teams of elves working under the direction of North Pole Flight Command for their efforts last Christmas.

Santa forgot no one. He spoke of the Sleigh design team, the sleigh traffic controllers, the ships of the North Pole Navy, all the test flight teams of pilots and reindeer, and even the ground crews who cleared the snow on Christmas Eve.

Santa said the elves will commemorate the record-setting accomplishments of last year’s flight by wearing a special patch on their uniforms in the year ahead. Each elf gets a special certificate honoring the event with a personal letter of commendation from Santa for their contributions.

This made everyone really excited. Santa spoke only briefly after his flight, expressing his gratitude, but since that time he has been mostly quiet. It was good for the elves to hear all this from him.

Santa said that since we’re now at 300 days to launch is time to fully focus on Christmas this year.

He announced there will be a new sleigh in 2024 and it will feature a new design. That has been under debate by Flight Command leadership since New Year.

The Sleigh Department is very excited about that.

So we expect a timeline to be published soon of targets North Pole Flight Command will need to hit in order for Santa to launch on time.

A new sleigh design means an all new build, which means lots of test flights, which means a long season ahead of learning and preparation.

Stay tuned for more news, gang.

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Elf Meg graduated from Southern North Pole University with a degree in journalism. For several years she was a star reporter for the North Pole Gazette and then briefly served as a producer for North Pole Radio News. She brings her experience in media to North Pole Flight Command, serving as both an Elf News Reporter for North Pole Radio News and Managing Editor of North Pole Flight Command.com
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North Pole Flight Command has formed the Regional Committee, which is charged with coordinating the setup and operation of Regional Tracking Centers in each sector.

Named to the committee are the following elves:

Elf Roger Star – Director North Pole Flight Command
Elf Buck Sanchez – Flight Operations Director at the North Pole
Elf Gertrude – Senior VP of Distribution
Elf Rusty Belz – Head Elf, North Pole State Department
Elf Agent X – Head Elf, North Pole Security
Elf Seymour Snow – Head Elf, Weather Department
Elf Victor – Head Elf, Reindeer Operations
Elf Ed Zachary – Director, North Pole News Department

Automatically assigned to the committee are each Elf Supervisor assigned to each sector. These elves are already scouting locations in their various sectors.

The Committee will be accepting feedback from elves around the world, doing research and compiling a list of 10 candidate sites in each sector over the next several months.

It is anticipated that locations will be determined and announced sometime after Leon Day on June 24th, 2024.

Elf News Reporter at North Pole News Network
Elf Meg graduated from Southern North Pole University with a degree in journalism. For several years she was a star reporter for the North Pole Gazette and then briefly served as a producer for North Pole Radio News. She brings her experience in media to North Pole Flight Command, serving as both an Elf News Reporter for North Pole Radio News and Managing Editor of North Pole Flight Command.com
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Intense debate is raging in North Pole Flight Command about a new sleigh for Santa in 2024.

Last year’s sleigh was so successful that some elves feel improvements to Santa’s sleigh are not necessary.

Santa set a new all time speed record in 2023 and finally, after years of trying, broke the 30-hour barrier in making deliveries around the world.

“That was no cheap record,” said Elf Roger Star, director of North Pole Flight Command. “Santa’s deliveries were not only done quickly but efficiency actually improved with this flight. That too set a record, so very few were missed. There is no doubt that improvements on Santa’s sleigh will be set at a very high bar this year.”

The Sleigh Department wants Santa to weigh in the question: do they design and build an all-new sleigh or do they just make another sleigh based on last year’s record setting design?

Santa will have a new sleigh in 2024 as last year’s sleigh is already in the Sleigh Hall of Fame Museum at the North Pole.

Elf Roger says that Santa will need to weigh in soon on this question as the year is quickly slipping away. A new sleigh design needs to be created and tested thoroughly before Santa flies it on Christmas.

Customarily the Sleigh Department works with North Pole Flight Command to launch test flights in late June or early July.

We will keep you posted on this developing story.

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Elf Meg graduated from Southern North Pole University with a degree in journalism. For several years she was a star reporter for the North Pole Gazette and then briefly served as a producer for North Pole Radio News. She brings her experience in media to North Pole Flight Command, serving as both an Elf News Reporter for North Pole Radio News and Managing Editor of North Pole Flight Command.com
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There remains just 350 days until Santa launches.

This is likely the most quiet milestone of the year. North Pole Flight Command is minimally staffed, there have been no discussions of plans for Santa’s sleigh this year, and flights in and out of the North Pole have been suspended at the Sleigh Port since Christmas.

But the milestone remains and it is getting attention.

Elf Roger Star, director of North Pole Flight Command, is starting meetings today, beginning with Santa.

It is their annual protocol to meet first to review Santa’s latest flight and all that occurred at Flight Command since last year.

From this meeting will come new ideas, new goals and new direction for Operation Merry Christmas 2024.

We will not have news to announce for some time, however. This first meeting will lead to other meetings that Elf Roger will need to have with all the Department heads at Flight Command. They will go back and forth before a new plan for the year is completely established.

Once that new plan comes together, Elf Roger will meet with Santa again to review it all and to obtain approval before moving forward.

This can all take several weeks.

Hopefully, it will all happen before the countdown clock marks our next milestone at 300 days to launch.