Everything from a weird smell and a mouse on the plane to missing crew and cutlery have caused delays or cancellations in recent years.

Air New Zealand is this morning offering hundreds of cheap seats to Taranaki.

Here's why more airlines flying to New Zealand are offering wifi

Figures from the International Air Transport Association show that there was a 16% increase in reported incidents.

Somewhere between Australia and New Zealand, in an aeroplane cubicle, Dannielle Michaels had a light-bulb moment.

Airlines are installing more wifi systems in their planes to meet passenger demand.

A flight bound for Australia was forced to make a U-turn less than an half an hour into the journey late this afternoon.

The head of one of the world's biggest airlines is worried pilots are being seduced by technology.

Qatar Airways will start flying next year and is offering fares as low as $1455 from Auckland to Europe return.

Auckland Airport hits back at a claim busing passengers to its terminals is Mickey Mouse but warns there will be more of it.

Daniel the Duck won over the internet this week, but he's not the only farmyard animal to take to the skies.

Air New Zealand has been named one of the best airlines in the world by readers of luxury travel magazine Conde Nast Traveler.

A Bhutan Airlines flight was on its final approach when a goat on the runway forced it to abandon its landing

According to newly published research, the most likely candidate for bad plane etiquette is a man who seldom flies.

It seems that in every few rows on a commercial jet, the windows don't quite line up with the seats, rendering the window pretty much useless.

Australians have a reputation as being pretty boozy travellers, and now a new survey has revealed the truth about their airport drinking habits.

Hawaiian Airlines had a dilemma: Their planes were burning more fuel than projected on their regular 4180km route between Honolulu and American Samoa.

Over 300 people were on board a British Airways flight when its landing gear failed.

A sex diary kept by a married air stewardess who wrote about her romps with colleagues is at the centre of a legal battle - after her husband found it and tried to serialise it

Air New Zealand is banning Samsung Galaxy Note 7 devices from its aircraft.

Air New Zealand is considering equipping its planes with fire containment systems as concern about lithium ion batteries grows.

A black female doctor was told to 'sit down' and then passed over for an older white male when she tried to offer medical help to a fellow passenger mid-flight.

Emirates reveals why the slow selling Airbus A380 suits its network and how its bar at 38,000 feet came to be.

Best of NZ Herald Business 2016: Big western airlines were decades old in 1985 when Sir Tim Clark joined a tiny Middle Eastern start-up Emirates.

A man who catcalled a flight attendant during a safety demonstration has been thrown off an Alaska Airlines plane.

A passenger plane touched down at the wrong airport after pilots ignored on-board navigation equipment.

Shocked airline passengers were forced to sit alongside a dead body after a fellow traveller died mid-air while flying home from a holiday in Turkey.

A terrifying video of a Boeing aircraft aborting its landing was captured in Prague as the plane went up against some very strong cross winds. Videographer, Radko Nasinec, captured the cringe-worthy footage of the Boeing 737-430 narrowly avoiding a crash as its wheels grazed the runway.

Boeing landed a deal with Qatar Airways providing a sales boost to the US planemaker's upgraded 737 jetliner.

Fight that broke out between a man and a woman during the trip from Phuket to Sydney may have started after a seat-reclining incident.