New Zealand shares rose yesterday, heading back towards a record high after a two-day slide.

From February 20 the airline will run Night Rider services between Auckland, Nelson and Christchurch for a month.

Air fares as low as $1,365 return to Europe are on sale as airlines try to top up planes for the coming year.

Air New Zealand is expected to be one of the standout performers when reporting season starts next month.

Air New Zealand is being investigated over possible misleading or deceptive conduct in the way it sells insurance with air fares.

Qantas will cut fuel surcharges but will replace them with higher base charges as the airline tries to improve margins.

Despite the plummeting cost of crude oil, business commentators say it is unlikely airline passengers will be offered cheaper tickets.

Emirates is spending millions of dollars to retrofit its fleet to provide free wi-fi for passengers.

Analysis of several travel markets by travel booking site Expedia finds that airfares should drop this year.

Airfares should fall to reflect plummeting oil and jet fuel prices but airlines are stalling when it comes to delivering cheaper fares, consumer advocates say.

Qantas has been named the world's safest airline, and Air NZ is in the top ten, according to a new report which also noted 2014 was a bad year for airline safety.

Air New Zealand will tomorrow resume flights to Singapore - its biggest long-haul move in a decade and one which marks the start of an aggressive growth phase.

Air New Zealand will tomorrow resume flights to Singapore - its biggest long-haul move in a decade and one which marks the start of an aggressive growth phase.

Airbus has rushed two specialists to Jakarta to assist in the investigation of the disappeared A320 airliner operated by AirAsia, the budget carrier that rose from almost nothing in 2001 to be its biggest customer.

This year began with the aviation industry celebrating a century of passenger flights - it ends with a jet with 162 aboard missing while flying from Indonesia to Singapore.

Air New Zealand's flights to Buenos Aires will be more than a third filled with passengers from Australia, an analysis of the service says.

Eighty five years ago the carrier that was to become Hawaiian Airlines started commercial flights using a plane dubbed the "ugly duckling".

A former airline boss claims the US shot down flight MH370 because the military feared it had been taken over by hackers.

A lawyer says an Employment Court ruling allowing two Kiwi airline pilots to continue flying until the age of 65 is ground-breaking.

Four Air New Zealand flight attendants have left the airline under a cloud after a booze-fuelled night.

Holiday travellers have had their plans disrupted after a Jetstar IT glitch delayed transtasman flights for up to an hour and a half today.

New short-cut flight paths over Auckland promising to reduce carbon dioxide emission, burn less fuel and fly more quietly have been confirmed.