Mark Crowther, an RCMP staff sergeant based in Iqaluit, is in the middle of a two-week vacation with his wife in the resort of Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. Taylor Spence, a bridesmaid for a destination wedding in Punta Cana, said her party was finally able to secure an Air Canada flight by 1 p.m. That includes some larger-than-normal aircraft for those routes, such as the 450-seat Boeing 777 that touched down today in Punta Cana, an airport normally served by 282-seat Boeing 767s. (National Hurricane Center)But Crowther said he spent hours on the phone desperate to get on a WestJet flight home with little success. Mark Crowther's resort in Punta Cana has duct-taped and boarded up windows and started storm preparations in anticipation of Hurricane Irma.

Source: CBC News September 06, 2017 20:55 UTC