The Polar Express is a train that gets you to the North Pole but United Airlines is taking to the skies with its holiday tradition, sending kids and their families on a flight to Santa’s workshop. The airline hosted its annual Holiday Fantasy Flight for children in local hospitals on

More than 100 children, some of whom have serious health issues, were then taken on a roughly 45-minute flight near the city before landing back at Denver International Airport and being towed to a hangar transformed by United Airlines employees and volunteers into the North Pole.

It took a mere thirty minutes, and a little holiday magic, to transport about 60 Cleveland area kids from gate C29 at Cleveland Hopkins airport to the “North Pole” during United’s annual Fantasy Flight.

Santa had some help making it all happen, so we want to give a special shoutout to United Airlines and the Alexandria nonprofit Children's Hospice International for helping to create beautiful, lasting memories for these kids and their loved ones.

United Airlines is flying hundreds of children in need on several flights this year to the "North Pole," a section of an airport transformed into a winter wonderland.