{"id":84430,"date":"2025-12-11T20:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T20:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/84430\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T20:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T20:57:07","slug":"ccia-joins-american-airlines-snowball-express-to-honor-fallen-first-responder-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/84430\/","title":{"rendered":"CCIA joins American Airlines Snowball Express to honor fallen first responder families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Corpus Christi International Airport (CCIA) will serve as a departure point for the American Airlines Snowball Express for the first time, honoring families of fallen First Responders.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release on Thursday, the CCIA announced that American Airlines and the Gary Sinise Foundation have joined forces again, marking the 20th year of the Snowball Express.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The annual event transports more than 2,600 families of fallen military members and first responders to Walt Disney World for an all-expenses-paid experience.<\/p>\n<p>This Saturday, Dec.13, six charter flights\u2014including one from Corpus Christi\u2014will carry First Responder families from eight cities nationwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>American Airlines is providing 16 charter aircraft to support the holiday event.<\/p>\n<p>More from 3NEWS on KIIITV.com: \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kiiitv.com\/article\/news\/local\/ccia-sends-first-responder-families-to-disney\/mailto:tell3@kiiitv.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tell3@kiiitv.com<\/a> so we can get in touch with you about your story should we have questions or need more information. We realize some stories are sensitive in nature. Let us know if you&#8217;d like to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Corpus Christi International Airport (CCIA) will serve as a departure point for the American&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":{"0":"post-84430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-corpus-christi","8":"tag-corpus-christi","9":"tag-corpus-christi-headlines","10":"tag-corpus-christi-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}