Air New Zealand and Tourism New Zealand will extend a $20 million marketing partnership to promote the country in important markets over the next year.

Ryanair is forecasting a return to growth this year after the first profit decline in five years.

Air New Zealand and Tourism New Zealand will extend a $20 million marketing partnership to promote the country in key overseas markets.

As much as airports and airlines like to talk about improving passengers' lot, they rarely deliver.

Air New Zealand says it is assessing the viability of new routes to Pacific Rim destinations but has "no current plans" to fly to Denver.

Boeing will sell 50 737 aircraft worth at least $3.8 billion to a low-cost carrier, as a loosening of Chinese government controls on low-cost travel stokes demand expectations.

How do you load a plane quicker? New research suggests a lengthy airport gate queues could be slashed by seating passengers according to their hand luggage.

Airlines have welcomed the prospect of flying into Queenstown after dark now the resort's airport has safety clearance for night flights.

Auckland Airport says it wants a fixed taxi fare price for a trip into the city to stop exorbitant fares - but it can't take any action until contracts expire in 2016.

Auckland residents complaining that aircraft noise over their homes has become intolerable are thanking an anonymous benefactor for contributing thousands to their cause.

An international panel of experts will re-examine all data gathered in the nearly two-month hunt for the missing Malaysian jet.

A Queensland man who sparked a hijack scare at Bali airport on Friday has denied he was drunk and claimed he believed the cockpit door was the entrance to the aircraft's toilet.

Indonesian police are preparing to question a Queensland plumber who is in custody after allegedly sparking a hijacking scare aboard a Bali-bound flight.

For a moment when Danica Weeks wakes up, she thinks the last seven weeks have all been a bad dream.

'Hoax, miracle, or we're going to have to rewrite the textbooks.' Experts have cast doubt on teen's claim to have stowed away in a plane wheel for a 5 hour flight.

Philippines low-cost carrier Cebu Pacific is eyeing New Zealand as a possible destination following a new air service agreement between the two countries.

A 16-year-old boy stowed away in the wheel well of a flight from California to Hawaii, surviving the trip unharmed despite frigid temperatures and a lack of oxygen

An air force C-130 Hercules produced a spectacular finale to Warbirds over Wanaka as it dropped flares in the sky - a strategy effective against heat-seeking missiles.

The task has been described as impossible and only a week ago the world's media were mournfully saying the wreckage of the doomed Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 "may never be found".

The loved ones of those who perished on Malaysia Airlines flight 653 are still waiting for answers about what happened on the plane - 37 years later.

A new report says the missing Malaysia Airlines plane was 'thrown around like a fighter jet' - flying drastic manoeuvres in a bid to dodge radar.

After a week of optimism over four underwater signals believed to be coming from the missing Malaysian plane the sea has gone quiet.

The MH370 co-pilot tried to make a mid-flight call from his mobile phone just before the plane vanished from radar screens, a report said yesterday.

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.