Summer Herald: The Corner Office - Jetstar NZ Head, Grant Kerr. My overall business philosophy is to be honest; honest to myself and to everyone I interact with.

Fearful friends and relatives of passengers on board the missing AirAsia flight have gathered at emergency centres awaiting news of the search and rescue operation.

162 people on board flight QZ8501 that went missing between Indonesia and Singapore.

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

Legendary Kiwi airman and "genuinely nice guy" Trevor Thomas (TT) Bland will be given a spectacular send-off at Ardmore Airfield today.

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

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

The family of a British student who died on MH17 has revealed there are still 700 fragments of human remains to be identified in the Netherlands.

Herald aviation correspondent Grant Bradley looks at the trends exciting the plane nerds.

Virgin Atlantic has established a foothold in NZ with the appointment of a sales manager and a push to take more Kiwis to England, including Rugby World Cup fans.

Jetstar is attempting to reshape its image in this country as it moves into its sixth year of flying domestic routes.

Qantas is diverting its planes away from central Sydney to free up space for authorities dealing with the siege in a city cafe.

A new service from Fiji Airways will allow Wellingtonians to escape twice a week to the tropics from next June.

Investigators searching for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 say they could finish scouring the priority zone by May, more than a year after it vanished.

The British Government has demanded an investigation after a computer failure on Saturday at one of two air traffic control centres caused a major disruption of air traffic.

Over 70 per cent of people have felt anxiety about flying, according to a survey released by All Nippon Airways this week.

Investigators seeking the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in the southern Indian Ocean are widening their search area to cover the chance the aircraft fell from the sky at a shallower angle than expected.

A senior Korean Air executive has resigned after she delayed a plane leaving New York because of the way she was served nuts.

It was a bad day for Qantas. The airline was hit by a barrage of problems yesterday, with incidents on three flights forcing unplanned landings.

Air New Zealand will buy two more Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners and is looking at new places to fly.

Qantas engineers are examining an A380 jet that was forced to make an emergency landing in Perth.

Troubled Malaysia Airlines has picked the head of Irish flag carrier Aer Lingusas its future chief executive as the airline recovers from two disasters this year.

China's big three state-owned airlines are spreading their wings and heading for New Zealand this summer and have room for the number of flights to double.

Emirates has unveiled details of its more than half a billion dollar "liquor investment" programme.

Air New Zealand will tomorrow begin operating from a new lounge at Los Angeles Airport, part of a broad strategy to provide more comfort to premium passengers and frequent fliers.

Air New Zealand has been chosen as the airline of the year for the second year running by an aviation website.

A lightning strike has knocked one of Air New Zealand's new Dreamliners out of action for two days.