Courtesy of easyJet
- EasyJet is setting up mailboxes in seven European airports to deliver letters to Santa.
- This winter is the airline's busiest-ever schedule from the UK to Lapland.
- 71% of children flying during the Christmas period are worried that Santa won't be able to find them.
The British budget airline easyJet is setting up mailboxes in its signature orange color for children to send letters to Santa.
From five British airports including London Gatwick, easyJet will fly four times a week to Rovaniemi, the capital of Lapland in northern Finland, which is nicknamed "the official hometown of Santa Claus."
It is the airline's busiest-ever schedule from the UK to Lapland, which has multiple Santa-themed amusement parks and is a popular Christmas vacation destination.
Accord to a survey carried out by easyJet, 71% of children flying during the Christmas period are worried that Santa won't be able to find them.
Courtesy of easyJet
From Monday, there will be orange mailboxes in the terminals at at London Gatwick, London Luton, Bristol, and Manchester airports.
And throughout December, easyJet said its mailboxes will also be present at Paris Charles de Gaulle, Naples, and Milan airports.
For those who aren't flying, schools near easyJet's UK airports will see a "special letter collection service" where the airline's cabin crew will collect letters to take to Santa on the flights to Lapland.
"easyJet pilots and cabin crew will then hand deliver them to Santa ensuring a magical way for children to have their wishes arrive safely regardless of where they'll be this Christmas," the airline said in a press release.
It added that around 200,000 families are set to fly with easyJet during the festive season.