An engine issue grounded a Christchurch-bound flight at Dunedin International Airport yesterday, but Air NZ has kept tight lipped about the problems.

US airlines are spending heavily to find wines that work in the harsh gustatory environment of a dry, pressurised cabin at 35,000 ft.

Air New Zealand’s investment in bigger planes, means more bums on seats, which means cheaper prices for the travelling public, an industry expert says.

Air New Zealand is launching a fresh near half-billion dollar push into the United States with services to Houston from Auckland this year.

Air New Zealand's Auckland-Houston flights will be the longest on the airline's network.

Air New Zealand and a global aircraft parts supplier AJW Group have done a deal to service components of Tigerair Australia planes.

Air NZ and Canadian analytics company Aimia have bought Waikato University spinoff 11Ants Analytics for an undisclosed sum.

Wellington Airport and airlines are at loggerheads over whether carriers would use an extended runway for long-haul flights.

Air NZ has implemented new rules requiring two people, including at least one pilot, to be in the cockpit at all times.

Blair Haeata says his Maori heritage has helped him fit into marketing roles at a number of Chinese businesses, including his latest job at China Southern Airlines.

In a country where Nazi and communist persecution and eavesdropping have left deep scars, data secrecy has cast-iron legal protection in Germany.

"Feels like home" may be Qantas' latest advertising slogan, but it doesn't apply to the airline's lounges, where a "smart-casual" dress code means a ban on jandals.

Real estate firm Bayleys yesterday joined Air New Zealand's Airpoints programme and the airline is on the lookout for more partners.

Andreas Lubitz had searched online for suicide methods and cockpit doors before he crashed a Germanwings flight into a mountain, prosecutors say.

A Dutch pilot issued a chilling warning of the risks of being locked out of the cockpit weeks before the Germanwings crash.

New Zealand has secured 10 new air service deals allowing links with countries ranging from Bahrain in the Middle East to Curacao in the Caribbean.

Colonel Patrick Touron looked grim-faced, as well he might.

Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz appears to have hidden evidence of an illness from his employers, including having been excused by a doctor from work the day he crashed a passenger plane into a mountain, prosecutors said Friday.

Germanwings last night would not confirm reports one of the two pilots on its doomed flight was locked out of the cockpit before the plane crashed in the French Alps.

As China's economy has rapidly expanded over the past couple of decades, the Asian superpower's commercial giants have spread their wings and gone out into the world.