My tickets with C3 were $500 each. To purchase the same dates with Air Canada cost $1,400 each. What's worse, the same flight after Christmas week from Toronto costs $575.

They have completed 23 homes for families living in poverty. This is the third year the airline has put a Christmas video together, following past videos that have made quite a splash online.

The tale also got to hard-boiled Country 94 DJ Ryan Lindsay who tweeted: “Days like this are WHY I love my Job. Chelsea gets to go home to spend Christmas with her Gramma. … Welling up here.” ...

The airline promised when the video views hit 200,000, it would donate flights to reunite a family over Christmas through Ronald McDonald House. The family has not yet been chosen.