Aviodrome Aviation Museum also home to SintAirways this year

Once again this year Aviodrome Aviation Museum is home to SintAirways, St. Nicholas' airline. The last two weekends of November and the first weekend of December, visitors can help the pete and pietlots send gifts via Sint's special airmail.

The pieten and the pietloten are busy getting ready in time for December 5, but could really use all the help during SintAIRklaas. Coen Hoozemans, general manager of Aviodrome, says: "The pieten and pietloten are happy to enlist the assistance of visitors to our museum. In the old Schiphol building, visitors can help by performing all kinds of activities. For example, the pieten need assistance with sorting packages, filling the planes with peppermint oil and with mapping out flight routes."

On Nov. 19, 20, 26, 27, and Dec. 3 and 4, the pieten and pietloten like to show how SintAirways processes and distributes all the presents purchased by St. Nicholas on Dec. 5. They do this by showing the different jobs at the airport and talking about what these jobs entail. "SinterAIRklaas is therefore educational in addition to all the fun activities. Among other things, children learn during these weekends what customs does by helping to scan the packages and in addition they learn how pilots work by mapping out the routes," Hoozemans informs.

Collaboration with ROC Flevoland and Cultuurhuis JTL
Once again this year, students from the Event Organization and Leisure & Hospitality courses at Flevoland's ROC are collaborating on SintAIRklaas. Hoozemans: "This was a great success in previous years, so we are very happy that we can count on the help of the students again this year. In addition, we are very happy to have the help of Culture House JTL this year as well."

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