Name: Santa’s Arrival at the Airport 2025
Start: 2025-11-29T11:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-11-29T14:00:00-05:00
Location: Civic Plaza

$Santa\u2019s Arrival at the Airport 2025$

Every year Santa practices his route in preparation for the big day. Pictures with Santa and activities are part of the FREE celebration.
About this Event

Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus right down IND lane!

On his way back to the North Pole, Santa will be stopping here at the Indianapolis International Airport. Bring your family and friends to watch Santa dash across the tarmac on a firetruck. See his grand entrance from Civic Plaza and have a chance to chat with Mr. Claus himself!

Enjoy crafts, games, face painting, caricatures, elves juggling on stilts, and much more. Plus, parking is FREE when you register, and families can take home their pictures with Santa. We’re partnering with USO Indiana to make care packages for Indiana families. Don’t miss out on this fun activity that the whole family will love this holiday season!

Holly Jolly Jetway is Saturday, November 29, from 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Activities open at 11:00 a.m. Santa will arrive at 11:30 a.m. and will sit for photos from11:45 a.m. until 2:00 p.m.

To help us accommodate as many families as possible, you must pre-register for a specific time slot to visit with Santa via this website. Don’t want to visit with Santa? Register for the Activities Only visit and come anytime between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.!

Only one ticket per family may be ordered.

Photos with Santa are per family not per child. Please take a moment to read the Terms and Conditions which include the Photo Release allowing photos to be posted on the airport social media sites below.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

I irrevocably grant the Indianapolis Airport Authority (“IAA”), it representatives and employees the right to take photographs of me and my property in connection with above-identified subject. I authorize IAA, its assignees and transferees all the copyrights to the photographs, including without limitation to use, reproduce, distribute to the public and prepare derivative works based upon such photographs and publish the same in print and/or electronically.

I agree that IAA may use such photographs of me with or without my name and for any lawful purpose, including for example purposes of publicity, illustration, advertising, and Web content without further compensation to me.