Air New Zealand, wants to lift annual profit by $110 million by 2015 and is picking a better performance than the latest earnings performance.

Working in a Third World country often means safety standards are compromised and if something does go wrong, search-and-rescue resources are likely to be limited.

Pilots are giving the thumbs-up to Boeing's new Dreamliner plane, which touched down at Auckland Airport this morning.

Qantas will give away 100,000 air tickets worth AU$20 million as its way of saying "sorry" to passengers it stranded by grounding its fleet last week.

Passengers who upgrade to business class for flights out of London will have to fork out an extra $160 under a new tax.

The EPMU says the Qantas lockout has affected the handling of baggage from Air NZ flights into Australia.

Australian unions have condemned Qantas CEO Alan Joyce's decision to ground the airline's entire fleet.

Qantas has grounded its entire domestic and international fleets in an escalation of industrial action.

Air NZ says Labour's use of the koru to provoke political controversy conflicts with its core meaning.

Air New Zealand said today it would spend up to $340 million on 12 new ATR72-600 aircraft for its regional fleet.