Special times deserve special celebrations on board Azores Airlines. This Easter Sunday, we wanted to add a sweet treat that is typical of the season to our domestic routes meal service: a chocolate egg. This gesture is simple, but reveals the hospitality with which we make a point of welcoming all those who choose to fly.

We believe that it’s the attention and care that we put into each gesture that sets us apart as a company and that makes our passengers choose us and recommend us to their family and dearest friends.

This Easter, we also prepared an egg hunt inside, nothing more, nothing less than one of our planes! Seven five-year-old boys and girls from the “O Pardal” Nursery, a facility at Social and Parish Center of Nossa Senhora do Rosário da Lagoa, were inside SATA Air Açores’ Bombardier Q200 searching for the chocolate eggs that we previously hid a throughout the aircraft.

This action not only provided these children with a different experience, but also brought a contagious joy to those who accompanied them during their working day at João Paulo II Airport.

Easter comes from the Hebrew word “pesah” and means passage: for ancient peoples, the passage from winter to spring, and for Christians, the passage of Jesus from death to life, bringing salvation to all who believe in him.

In addition to the Catholic rituals associated with the season, Easter has taken on symbols and activities that have become popular around the world.

One of the symbols is the Easter Bunny or the egg, which represents the beginning of life and has a pre-Christian pagan symbolism representing fertility and rebirth.

In North America, France and Belgium, the “egg hunt” is a long-standing tradition and is practiced in a family context or in parks and gardens in major cities. In Italy, Spain and Portugal, this game is well known and is starting to gain popularity. The game consists of hiding colored chocolate eggs and giving the children a small container to put the ones they find.