More than 100,000 people have voted for Thomson’s next Dreamliner to be named Edie after a little girl from Fife who died suddenly last month after coming down with ‘flu.
Friends of the two-year-old’s heartbroken mum Cheryl Murphy entered Edie’s name in Thomson’s latest Name Our Plane competition launched last week and asked the public to vote for their entry via the link nameourplane.com/name/edie.
Within hours the hashtag #flyhighedie started trending on social media and the entry quickly attracted more than 50,000 votes. The total is now at more than 118,000.
The five entries with the most votes when the competition closes on November 16 will be submitted to a judging panel.
The winner will get their chosen name emblazoned on the next 787 to be delivered to Thomson in January 2016, plus £2,500 to spend on a Thomson holiday.
Edie’s mum told her local paper The Courier: "It’s such a comfort knowing our beautiful girl has touched the hearts and minds of so many people.
"We are so proud that she was our daughter. She was such a little person and two weeks ago not many people had heard of Edie.
"Now her name is everywhere. When you asked her her name she would say ‘I is Edie’. She would have loved that a plane could be called Edie too."
One of Thomson’s Dreamliners is named Neil after Thomson ran an earlier competition promising the name the aircraft after the person who sent in the best photo of one of its 787s, and one of its other Dreamliners is named Alfie after a baby born 14 weeks early on a First Choice flight.
