CHRISTMAS LIGHTS

Landlubbers have their Santa Clause parades, but boaters in BC have their Santa’s Christmas Ships. For two decades boating enthusiasts cruise from Belcarra to Burnaby, Port Moody and Deep Cove to “light up” the season.

Few details are being released about a 40 year old male who was arrested at the Berlin Tegel Airport after flying from Miami to join an AIDA cruise ship.

The future will be a watery one for some of the world's biggest cities faced with the challenge of adapting to climate change, and rising sea levels. Predicted sea level increases this century mean many cities face increased flooding, stronger storm surges and unpredictable weather. How well coastal cities can cope will dramatically affect quality of life and their economic destiny.

H ere’s one to scare you. How long ago would you guess it is since smoking was banned on commercial airplanes? In some ways it seems like forever and for many younger readers it probably is – the answer is 25 years ago this past April.

For the 11th year in a row, Air Transat and The Children’s Wish Foundation have teamed up to create a magical, unforgettable experience for hundreds of sick children across Canada as part of the Flights in Search of Santa event. These annual flights bound for the North Pole take off simultaneously from Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal.

The Canadian Transportation Agency has ordered Air Canada to officially change what it calls a discriminatory policy prohibiting deaf-blind people from travelling solo. Lawyer Carrie Moffatt booked a flight from Vancouver to Victoria in 2013 with her guide dog when she was informed she would have to fly with an attendant.

Nearly 30 years after development began, and after more than a dozen years of testing, a company best known for its cars and motorcycles is about to start delivering its first aircraft: a HondaJet.

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers seized US$600,000 worth of cocaine that was on a flight that arrived at the Philadelphia International Airport from Montego Bay, Jamaica over the weekend.

United Airlines is bringing back free snacks for economy-class passengers in February. Those snacks were cut off in 2008 by United and Continental followed suit in 2011 after the airlines merged.

American Airlines says it will start selling “premium economy” service on international flights, with leather seats, entertainment systems and meals. The seats will cost more than coach but less than business class, although American isn't stating prices.

Greece will complete nine key privatizations in the first half of 2016, including the sale of more than a dozen regional airports for which a deal is to be signed imminently, the head of the country's privatization fund said Tuesday.

For his nuptials in 1994, zillionaire Bill Gates vowed, “I do” on the signature twelfth hole of Manele Golf Course, a cliffside spectacle where the “fairway” is a surging surf 45 metres below. The camera-shy groom hired every helicopter and hotel room on Lanai in order to thwart peeping paparazzi. In 2014 he and Melinda returned to Lanai to celebrate their 20th anniversary.