A woman whose father died in the Air NZ Mt Erebus disaster has questioned the airline's use 'whoop whoop' - the last signal crew heard before the DC-10 went down - in its advertising.

New 'space taxis' could be blasting off from Cape Canaveral in Florida as soon as in 2015, according to Boeing.

Flight-deck error, inadequate training and a maintenance slip caused the crash of an Air NZ jet, France's air safety board has determined.

Qantas-owned budget airline Jetstar is expanding in the New Zealand domestic market by offering 39 extra flights from February.

Virgin Blue may abandon trans-Tasman routes after its alliance plans with Air NZ were knocked back by Australia's competition regulator.

An Australian skydiving instructor with a fear of flying was one of those killed in one of NZ's worst aviation disasters in 17 years.

A mid-air explosion forced a Qantas' 747 jetliner carrying 230 people to make an emergency landing.

Travellers between Tauranga and Christchurch, and Invercargill and Wellington, are the big winners in Air New Zealand's latest boost to domestic capacity.