SuomeksiThis year Santa dropped by at Turku airport on 7-8 December and visited our Caravelle a week earlier than last year. This year Santa was accompanied by his wife and one of his helper elves. These two served the visitors glogg and gingerbread.
Santa sat down on the captain’s seat, fastened his favourite soft toy (a Santa Claus, naturally) on the instrument panel and everything was ready for the Christmas journey.
This year we had 49 visitors during the weekend, about 20 of them children. There were several Christmas markets and bazaars in the Turku area during this weekend, and this probably affected the number of visitors at the airport.
The Christmas crew served glogg, juice, gingerbread and chocolate. Old Feeniks aviation history journals were available for free, as souvenirs from the Caravelle visit.
Before Santa’s visit the office container and the Caravelle’s passenger cabin were cleaned after the busy autumn’s work. The tools were gathered, the floors were vacuumed, and all loose items were arranged neatly along the walls. This meant that the actual working period of this autumn has come to an end. Winter is coming and the lower temperatures restricts work in the aircraft and outside. We will come back to work in March when the winter is almost over.
The sales table in the office was slightly less impressive than in the summer, but quite adequate for Santa’s visit.
Several members of the Caravelle Turku team were present. Jari was there on both days and on Sunday also our chairman Janne arrived although we had a table in the Christmas bazaar at the Turku Fair Center during the weekend. This meant that the Aviation Museum Society Finland volunteers were busy in these two places. Janne, Mikko and Tanja were behind the sales table at the Turku Fair Centre.
We were pleased to have a good number of visitors in both places. Next year we will try to improve our programme in the Caravelle and hopefully get more visitors.
Translation by Erja Reinikainen.
