WestJet's 2021 Christmas Miracle Is All About Reuniting Loved Ones
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WestJet Airlines' annual "Christmas Miracle" videos, which capture employees providing much-needed holiday cheer to those in need, are legendary. Past "miracles" include flying in gifts and snow to the Dominican Republic and hosting a holiday party for a town devastated by a forest fire. In 2020, WestJet employees delivered 12,000 care packages with essentials and gifts to families hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, the company wants to reunite families for the holidays.
In the video, released on December 6, 2021, WestJet employees pose as documentary filmmakers. They ask unsuspecting passersby what Christmas tradition they missed the most in 2020. Not surprisingly, for the majority, it was getting together with loved ones. Following the "interview," a WestJet employee, wearing the company's signature blue Santa hat, emerges from the back with free airline tickets to their desired destination. Be sure to have some tissues handy before you watch the tear-jerking footage!
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hermiones_loverabout 1 monthaww
basketballanime3 monthsBlue Santa! Lol Lets go West Jet follow me if u agree
kittycatangie3 monthsLove this Kavi!! My bestfriend's dad works at WestJet and was so happy after this article, I loved seeing her so happy! Thank you Kavi. 😄
newsreader2774 monthsSweeeet
sophocles19894 monthsThat's so thoughtful and generous that those people could reunite people with people that they loved :))))
5thgradepog14 monthsI wish covid would just end my family is infected
5thgradepog4 monthsAmazing kindness that you to the people that did that also wish covid never happened who else- 5thgradepog4 monthsSo wholesome like if you guys think chrimasnts it the best time of the year
- 5thgradepog14 monthsWow
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