STOPPED SHORT Not according to plan

Thursday evening’s chartered flight from New York to Doha, Qatar was meant to celebrate an Airbus A350-900 XWB’s first-ever journey from the US, but things didn’t go quite as planned. The aircraft sped down the runway at JFK, watched by passengers on their seat back screens - before coming to a sudden, screeching halt.

Firefighters rushed to the rescue of a plane apparently on fire on the tarmac at Fuzhou airport, but mistakenly sprayed the wrong aircraft with foam. The bizarre incident caused a partial shutdown of the airport, delaying 30 flights.

There was a security scare at PortMiami last Friday when passengers on the Norwegian Sky had to evacuate the ship. Law enforcement officers and their K9’s swept the vessel after it was determined that a passenger boarded without scanning their key card.

Princess Cruises will soon crown the top guest entertainer for 2015 during the cruise line's fifth annual Entertainer of the Year competition.

The partnership of two high tech companies may allow cruise ships to resolve mechanical difficulties and perform regular maintenance in an efficient and timely way. The hope is that 3D Scanning AS and 3Discovered technology can diagnose a problem, determine a solution and provide the parts for the repairs instantly thereby avoiding the disasters of ships disabled at sea.

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.