7 year old Luke from Gurnard Primary School, received an unexpected early Christmas present on 17^th December when IOW Radio became messengers on behalf of Hovertravel to make his Christmas wish come true.

IOW Radio ran a ‘Christmas wish..’ campaign throughout December where pupils of IOW Primary schools were able to voice their Christmas wishes on radio.

Luke’s wish was to Fly a Hovercraft’.  On hearing Luke’s wish on the radio Commercial & Marketing Manager Loretta Lale, decided to offer him a gift of a ‘Flight Deck Experience’ from Hovertravel.

Michael Coombes and Paul Topping of Isle of Wight Radio felt this was a fantastic offer and decided to visit Luke’s class room to announce the gift to him. Plus, Hovertravel invited all of Luke’s class mates to travel on-board the Hovercraft whilst he is in the Flight Deck.

Luke will have the opportunity to sit next to the Captain and learn about flying the hovercraft from the controls, to navigation and responsibility for all passengers on board, during the hovercraft service operation.

The experience will take place in January.