Canadian travellers hoping to vacation in St. Maarten this winter will have to make alternative plans.

Tourists are known to gather at the airport to watch air planes land and take off from the Caribbean island.

WestJet is downplaying a video posted online of a flight from Toronto that showed a "missed approach" at an airport in St. Maarten during rainy weather, saying that despite reports of the plane coming dangerously close to the water, the passengers and crew were not in any danger.