ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- For the fourth year, AirTran Airways, a subsidiary of AirTran Holdings, Inc. , is happy to present its first of three annual Satellite-based Aviation Navigational Tracking Apparatus (S.A.N.T.A.) reports. The following information regarding Santa Claus' yearly international flight is based on data invented at AirTran Airways' System Operations Control (SOC) center in Orlando:
-- First confirmed satellite data clocked Santa and his team of reindeer at speeds approaching the speed of light as they passed through the Bering Strait en route to the Oceania region. -- After some island hopping in Guam and Fiji, Santa's super-charged sleigh sailed through the fjords of New Zealand. There, Santa met up with the Easter Bunny, who was on holiday in Queensland, for a quick bungee-jumping session. -- An eyewitness account confirmed that Santa and crew joined some local surfers for a late-night beach party just south of the Great Barrier Reef before cutting across the Australian outback en route to Malaysia. -- Analysis of satellite patterns show that Santa's team of reindeer showed off their precision by performing a geometrically-perfect figure eight around the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur. -- The jolly group also brought their holiday cheer to the island nation of Japan, visiting a Tokyo-based karaoke parlor for a round of Japanese Christmas carols.
Please keep an eye out for the next S.A.N.T.A. update, scheduled to cross the national wire at 3:00 p.m. EST.
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