The 227 passengers who boarded Air New Zealand Flight 09 in Honolulu on a balmy Saturday night were expecting to land in Auckland about nine hours later.

The top American airlines are making more money than ever - but don't expect it to mean lower prices for passengers.

Qantas has reassured passengers it's still safe to fly over Iraq, despite network partner Emirates' deciding to steer clear of the conflict-torn nation.

Ten days after the shooting down of MH17, Anthony Maslin and wife Rin Norris are living a "hell beyond hell".

Vladimir Putin is facing a multimillion-dollar legal action for his alleged role in the shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines passenger jet over eastern Ukraine.

Aeroplane disasters have the ability to conjure up the special dread that comes with the unknown, writes Archie Bland.

The family of Mary Menke, an ex-pat New Zealander killed in the MH17 disaster, have released a statement about her life with her Dutch husband Gerry in Australia.

This year is the deadliest for air disasters since 2010, but Kiwi aviation experts say passengers are still statistically unlikely to die in an aircraft crash.

In the agonising quest to pin down exactly what happened when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 went down over Ukraine last week, Web archivists and other digital sleuths are playing an unusual — potentially pivotal — role.

The black boxes that could help reveal the pattern of events before the downing of MH17 in eastern Ukraine will be examined by investigators in Britain, David Cameron says.

Australian Governor-General is travelling to the Netherlands to receive the bodies of the Australians killed in the MH17 disaster.

Two seats were left empty as Newcastle played Sydney FC in Dunedin. They were for two men who died on board flight MH17.

Ukraine’s security services has released photographs and videos it says show Russian-made BUK-M1 surface-to-air missile systems inside the rebel-held area.

An international sports team due to fly to France on Malaysia Airlines is changing carriers because the players fear for their safety after the MH17 tragedy.

Malaysia Airlines has told New Zealand travel agents its government owner is committed to ensuring its long-term future as the national carrier.

A call by the chief of Emirates for a global summit of carriers to tackle new threats to planes has been met with a muted response from the body representing airlines.

Malaysia Airlines shares halted their dramatic slide yesterday but speculation about the airline's future grew.

Families of MH17 victims have urgently cancelled their loved ones' credit cards and mobile phones amid reports of looting at the crash site.

Australia continued to spearhead international demands yesterday for Russian-backed rebels to allow unrestricted access to the MH17 crash site.

European Union foreign ministers meet in Brussels today, facing the challenge of proving Russia's role in the downing of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17.

A train is the makeshift morgue housing nearly 200 bodies collected from the crash site of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17.

Four days after Malaysia Airlines' Flight 17 was shot down, the families of the 298 people on board can only wonder what is happening to the remains of their loved ones.

The father of three Australian children killed on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 has taken indefinite leave from his job as head of Buxton Resources.

A New Zealand diplomat from Moscow has been sent to Kiev to monitor an investigation into the Malaysia Air disaster, Prime Minister John Key says.

192 bodies found after MH17 crashed to the ground have been bundled into black body bags and loaded into large refrigerated train cars, bound for the rebel heartland.

Mary Menke fell in love as she travelled the world as a young woman - four decades later, she died flying home to New Zealand with the man she married.

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was guided off its most recently used course as its pilots hoped to avoid thunderstorms brewing in the south of Ukraine, it's been claimed.