The Fort Wayne airport started handing out cookies to arriving passengers in 2000 as part of their hospitality program.
Sixteen years adds up to a lot of cookies, and on Thursday, a hospitality host gave out the airport’s 2 millionth cookie.
Adrianne Conner and her 4-year-old daughter Lyla were surprised by the attention they received when they were handed the 2 millionth cookie.
They were coming back from Florida, where they had traveled for a family wedding. The mother and daughter were headed home to Hicksville, Ohio, where Conner’s husband and 8-month-old daughter were waiting.
She had no idea that the prize also included four $200 airline vouchers, and started crying when she found out.
“It was amazing. It allows me and my husband to be able to take our kids on vacation as a family,” Conner said. “It means a lot to our family.”
Conner says she’s not sure where she’ll go yet, but she would like to go somewhere near the ocean.
She also won a year’s supply of cookies from Ellison bakery, a Fort Wayne-based company that supplies the cookies to the airport.