Christopher Luxon was brought in to put the foot down and drive profit, writes Grant Bradley. He's not about to let historic ties to some towns influence cold, hard business decisions.

Airbus is strengthening its presence in Asia - a market which is shaping up as a key battleground for competition with rival Boeing.

Nearly three-quarters of New Zealanders on long-haul flights like to break their journey with a stopover.

Air New Zealand has bowed to public pressure by changing its regional fare structure and faced up to financial reality by shutting its loss-making Eagle Airways, pulling back from several towns.

A flight formation ended the funeral in Auckland today of pilot Ann Barbarich, who died after suffering a suspected brain aneurysm at the controls of a plane after landing in Perth.

A Kiwi air traveller wrestled with a crazed passenger who tried to force open an emergency aircraft door mid-flight between Vietnam and Australia.

A man trying to make a dramatic mid-air exit from a Vietnam Airlines craft had to be restrained by passengers, including a Kiwi man on board.

An airline catering company has been ordered pay its rival $25,000 after the Supreme Court threw out an appeal over holiday pay and other staff entitlements.

Kiwis on waiting lists for commercial space flights remain determined would-be astronauts, although one admits to losing some confidence in Virgin Galactic's programme.

The line of passengers taking pictures of the plane they'd just stepped off at Auckland Airport this week was proof that big aircraft make a big impression.

Trailblazer for women flyers had just landed new Air NZ jet when she suffered suspected aneurysm.

Air NZ is ripping the interiors out of eight of its widebody Boeing 777-200s and refitting them in a $100m project.

Travel Editor Winston Aldworth checks out the creature comforts aboard the airline's newest addition to the local fleet.

Singapore Airlines' Airbus A380 superjumbo has landed at Auckland Airport twenty minutes ahead of schedule as it starts a five-month summer service.

An Air New Zealand flight to Hawaii has been forced to return to Auckland this afternoon.

Auckland International Airport has confirmed it’s likely to deliver an underlying net profit of between $160m and $170m this financial year,

Singapore Airlines will start A380 services to Auckland in what is Australia's loss and New Zealand's gain.

Malaysia Airlines says a compensation offer of US$50,000 to the families of MH370 victims is only "part of" the final payment it intends to make.

The widow of Kiwi MH370 victim Paul Weeks has rejected a compensation offer of $64,000 from Malaysia Airlines.

Established as the world's most glamorous plane with top-end carriers such as Dubai-based Emirates, Airbus sees a new niche for the industry's biggest jetliner.

China Eastern Airlines is to start regular scheduled services to Shanghai from Auckland over summer in a challenge to Air New Zealand.

Air New Zealand has again defended what the airline charges on its regional routes, saying profits are falling on its provincial network.

The sonar search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight is about to resume, with a Malaysian ship the first to begin scouring the Indian Ocean for MH370.

They chatted over Facebook, he boarded a flight, and then he was gone forever. Now MH17 victim Robert Ayley's wife, Sharlene, has spoken for the first time.

Images show for the first time a dramatic underwater landscape with mountains higher than Mont Blanc and ridges deeper than the Grand Canyon - all 4570m below the surface.

A former TV reporter who is 30 weeks' pregnant was removed from a domestic flight after failing to provide a medical note saying she was fit to fly.

Airbus Group predicted airlines will buy planes worth $4.6 trillion at list prices over the next 20 years.

Jetstar will give a $25 voucher to every domestic passenger whose flight is more than 10 minutes late for the next eight days.