After long disputes on whether she should remain or not in cold Alaska, Maggie, an 8,000-pound elephant will be transported to a new home in Performing Animal Welfare Society in San Andreas, California.

Maggie, the 25-year-old African elephant will “fly” with C-17 cargo plane belonging to Elmendorf Air Force Base on Thursday, as the Associated Press reports. She will be transported as part of a training mission as the U.S. Air Force stated.

“She’s definitely going first class,” Eileen Floyd, a spokesperson of the Alaska Zoo told to Anchorage Daily News quoted by USA Today.

Moreover, during the flight she will be supervised by two veterinarians, two transport specialists a specialist in animal behavior, several people from the zoo’s staff and also the Co-founder of PAWS, Ed Stewart.

The flight is expected to take five hours if everything goes well. All this time, Maggie will have her legs tied but completely aware of what is happening around her.

"Everything's been planned and prepared, this trip will go well and I have no doubt in my mind the Air Force will pull this out with no problem," Sgt. John Brindley told ABC Alaska News quoted by Alaska’s SuperStation.

Margaret Whittaker, a specialist in animal behavior added: "We expect she'll wonder what's going on, she may get anxious and nervous when the plane is taking off and landing because that's something new to her."

Maggie will have 30 acres to wander and nine new friends to live with, due partly to retired game show host Bob Barker who donated $750,000 for her well care, the AP reports.