International- A Delta flight attendant said she's excited to spend her first Christmas holiday on the ground with her family.
- Pierce Vaughan said she's worked every Christmas eve and day for Delta since 2018, per Fox 10 Phoenix.
A Delta flight attendant whose father usually joins her for her flights during Christmas will finally have her first holiday home with her family.
Pierce Vaughan, a flight attendant for Delta Air Lines, told Fox 10 Phoenix that she has always been scheduled to work on Christmas Eve and Day, so her father, Hal Vaughan, would spend those days taking those flights with her as a passenger.
The heartwarming father-daughter tale went viral in 2018 when The New York Times and other outlets reported on their unusual holiday tradition. Vaughan's father typically made it on each of her flights across the country during the Christmas holiday, Fox 10 reported.
This year, they'll get to enjoy the holiday off, Fox 10 reported.
"I am still a flight attendant but I'm actually (for the first time!) off for Christmas," Pierce told the outlet. "I'm so very grateful to have the chance to spend quality time with both of my parents in south Mississippi this month!"
She added: "The last few years have been incredibly busy and seem to fly by faster than I can hold on, so I'm really looking forward to a Christmas at 'home, home' when so many other places have grown to feel like home."
"I'm happy in the air or on the ground if I'm with my daughter," Hal Vaughan told the outlet.