NOT THE SAME Court rules FAA can ban flight sharing service modelled on Uber

Private pilots can't offer flight-sharing services to the public using an Internet model similar to those developed by Uber and Lyft, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

Southwest Airlines has suspended more than 100 ground workers who it says skipped work without permission to attended union meetings in California and Florida last month.

China's tourism authority named and shamed another five tourists for bad behaviour and says it is working with airlines on a possible flying ban. Those added to the list of “uncivilized behaviour” by tourists include two women and a man who brawled after one woman's seat was bumped during boarding of a flight from Cambodia to the western city of Chengdu.

Air Transat Flight TS8500 left Amman, Jordan, Sunday afternoon, bound for Toronto with 207 Syrian refugees aboard.

A fake explosive rigged with cardboard, sheets of paper and a household timer forced an Air France flight into an emergency landing in Kenya on Sunday, sending hundreds of passengers down emergency slides in what the airline's CEO said was the fourth bomb hoax against the airline in recent weeks.

Few details are known about an unidentified British senior citizen who is missing and believed to have fallen overboard early last Sunday morning on the Saga Sapphire cruise ship.

Last week we reported briefly on the damage to the coral reefs at the George Town harbour in the Cayman Islands. Diver Scott Prodahl took images of the impact of an anchor from a Zenith Cruise ship breaking off coral.

In the current climate of hyped headlines and terrorism fears, Sydney-based writer and photographer, Michael Gebicki recently discussed how cruise ships in general safeguard against terrorist attacks with a cruise line on-board security officer. While precise details are obviously confidential, systems are in place to ensure the safety of all cruise vessels and their passengers.

Air Canada’s enRoute magazine has listed the six “hottest destinations.” Making the list is Dubai, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Brisbane and Dublin, but hang on to your fur trimmed aviator trapper hat, because also making the list is Whitehorse; the only destination where moose outnumber people two to one.

Three major theme parks announced Thursday that they are adding security measures including metal detectors ahead of the busy holiday season. Officials at Disney, Universal and SeaWorld's Florida theme parks said all three parks will be using metal detector screening for guests as they enter.

As passengers joined the Royal Caribbean Explorer of the Seas when it docked in Sydney this week they were given a letter asking if they had had any symptoms of gastrointestinal disorders over the past three days. The ship had 182 passengers onboard suffering from what was thought to be norovirus.

The United States and Cuba have reached an understanding on restoring regularly scheduled commercial flights, Cuban and American officials said Wednesday on the eve of the anniversary of detente between the Cold War foes.