The popular tourist island of St. Maarten cannot expect commercial flights to begin for at least the next two weeks and maybe as long as six, some travelers are being told. Airlines that usually ...

Crowds gather on sand, cameras at the ready, as last flights skim their heads before precariously touching down by shore THE hair-raising sight of mighty Boeing 747s skimming a beach before touching ...

As the beach sits at the end of a tiny runway at St Maarten’s international airport, the tranquillity is frequently disrupted by the sight and sound of passenger jets soaring mere metres above the ...

A woman has died in Sint Maarten in the Caribbean after being knocked over by the blast from a jet taking off from a nearby runway. The incident happened at the well-known Maho beach near the Princess ...

Maho Beach might not be the Caribbean's most idyllic beach but it's not the white sand tourists turn up for. Located on St Maarten, the small beach is popular among plane spotters and self-confessed ...

A dramatic aborted landing in St. Maarten yesterday, as an Air France 340 realized that it was going to land short of the runway and decided at the last second to go around. It landed safely on the ...