Most of the passengers were returning to Quetta after celebrating holidays at home, said another official.

It also feels less 'weird' celebrating holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas when the weather is really cold.

But to be told you'd be going against God for celebrating holidays, or receiving gifts-thatwas too much.

While other families are celebrating holidays with their newborns, families of kids with chronic illnesses are camped out in hospitals.

But it's also special celebrating holidays in space, she noted, that "kind of takes any sting off of missing your family".