Queenstown is gearing up for a bumper winter season with airlines pouring more seats into the resort town whose airport is erecting a marquee to handle the influx.

Cathay Pacific's joint-venture agreement with Air New Zealand is working well, says the Hong Kong-based airline's chief operating officer, Rupert Hogg.

Malaysia Airlines is introducing new security measures - including an extra crew member inside the cockpit - following the disappearance of Flight MH370.

The search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 off Western Australia could take years, a senior US Navy official said.

When Danica Weeks first heard that the Malaysia Airlines flight her husband Paul was on was missing.

If advertising makes you sick, brace yourself: on some local flights, the motion-sickness bags now feature ads.

An Air Force Iroquois helicopter will resume the search this morning for an Auckland man's missing biplane.

A successful Middle- earth marketing campaign appears to be driving a resurgence in Western visitors to New Zealand, according to a new report.

Bad weather has forced searchers for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 to suspend operations for the day, for the second time this week.

A Chicago law firm is preparing for what could be a multimillion dollar lawsuit following the Malaysia Airlines tragedy.

The brother of pilot Daroish Kraidy, whose plane is missing off the Coromandel coast, says he may yet be found alive.

Billy Adams asks: "Was there any anger or resentment towards an employer with whom Zaharie Ahmad Shah had clocked up more than 18,000 hours' flying time?"

The search for Flight MH370 has been complicated by floating objects in the sea that may have been mistaken for pieces of wreckage from the aircraft.

Danica Weeks learned her husband Paul had died on flight MH370 via text message.

A New Zealand criminologist has come out in support of a theory that the captain of the missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft was on a suicide mission.

When Najib Razak, Malaysia's prime minister, faced the cameras with the news that there were no survivors from missing flight MH370, families across the globe wept.

The desperate, multinational hunt for Flight 370 has resumed across a remote stretch of the Indian Ocean after fierce winds and high waves that forced a daylong halt eased.

The Malaysia Airlines flight gave one last unexplained signal eight minutes after its final "ping", possibly the result of the plane entering its "catastrophic phase".

The Royal New Zealand Air Force personnel stationed in Perth to help search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 are due for a break

Thousands of flights each year in and out of New Zealand fly through radar black spots relying only on scheduled long-range radio calls to track their position.

This year has proved to be a golden summer for both holiday-makers and Auckland tourism industry operators.

A drunken airline passenger who lit a cigarette and claimed to have an AK-47 in his bag has been fined $500 and banned from the airline for his return trip home.

A drunken passenger on a flight to New Zealand caused an alert yesterday by lighting up a cigarette in his seat then claiming he was carrying an AK-47 machinegun.

She is the woman whose cries of despair captured the unimaginable agony of the families waiting for news of the 239 passengers on board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight.

Four things you should know about the ongoing search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

French satellites have made the latest sighting of possible aircraft wreckage in the southern Indian Ocean, as sources say there was only a 2-min window for a hijacking.

At dawn yesterday the first of an international air fleet lifted off yet again from the Australian Air Force's big Pearce base north of Perth.

Another investigation has been launched into the captain of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight after phone records found he had received a call just before take-off.

If these photos are anything to go by, you have virtually no chance of seeing a broken-up airliner, writes Billy Adams.

There is no doubt that inventive speculations bloom in such conditions, writes Toby Manhire. They might be wild on old-fashioned talkback radio, wilder still in the online forums, but mainstream news platforms have not exactly been immune.