Prime Minister Tony Abbott was to update China's President Xi Jinping on the latest developments in the hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 before he left Beijing last night.

No new acoustic signals have been detected in the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

The approximate location of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 deep in the Indian Ocean could be known within days as ships focus on a fading series of pings.

As the search continues for Flight 370, it's probable that answers surrounding the mystery of the aircraft will not be available until the recorders are recovered.

Unmanned underwater vehicles will be deployed in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet only when another acoustic signal is detected, authorities say.

Virgin Group chief executive Josh Bayliss says overcapacity harming airline profits in Australia may take some time to be absorbed.

A Swiss air freight company has been penalised $3.1 million by a NZ judge for being part of a "classic hard-core cartel" that used gardening codewords to try disguise itself.

A crisis management expert has defended Malaysia Airlines' decision to send news about missing flight MH370 to relatives of crew and passengers via text message.

The Commerce Commission and Swiss air freight company Kuehne + Nagel have agreed it should be penalised $3.1m for "hardcore cartel conduct" deliberately hidden using gardening codewords and ran for five years, the High

Sir Peter Jackson's personal jet is helping to relay messages between various military aircraft searching for the missing Malaysia Airline passenger plane, the Royal New Zealand Air Force says.

At north of $10 million, Air New Zealand's new 787 flight simulator could be the county's most expensive video game.

The Malaysian authorities have insisted that "someone on the plane" was responsible for the disappearance of Flight MH370.

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.

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.

Satellite images show a possible debris field from flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean but bad weather has kept answers out of the grasp of search crews.

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.