Air Canada says a Maui-bound flight from Vancouver was forced to return to YVR over mechanical concerns Monday.
The flight landed back at the Vancouver airport shortly after 2:30 p.m., more than five hours after it first took off.
"We were halfway there so it's kind of annoying how on Christrmas Eve we had to turn back," Rahuo Amlekar told CTV News.
"We're having to rebook our hotel, car rental, everything," said Pooja, another passenger.
An Air Canada spokesperson said Flight AC535, which was carrying 167 passengers onboard, turned around for "maintenance reasons due to a hydraulic indication," but the details of what might have been wrong with the Boeing 737 remain unclear.
The airline says it will work to transfer the passengers to a different aircraft to get them to their destinations as soon as possible.
With files from CTV Vancouver's Angela Jung
