September arrivals for British visitors were the lowest in a decade, Statistics NZ figures show.

A potty-mouthed puppet called Rico is the controversial new face of the country's national carrier, Air New Zealand.

Radio "shock jock" Iain Stables has been involved in a physical altercation at Auckland airport.

The Dreamliner is a big deal to the thousands of suppliers around the world making components and to the 55 customers lined up waiting for the new-generation aircraft.

The company will make the services available on Airbus A340-500s and A380s and Boeing's 777-300ER models.

Warnings of terror attacks in Europe are not affecting bookings, say airlines.

The airline is currently training nearly 300 cadets who are aspiring to become pilots, further strengthening its commitment to nurturing aviation talent. Video / Emirates

The manufacturers of the Bombardier say yesterday's Blenheim incident was the third one of its kind worldwide in less than a week.

A plane with 46 passengers on board has crash landed at Woodburn airport near Blenheim tonight.

Hundreds of passengers were stranded at Australian airports for a second night last night as Virgin Blue struggled to clear a backlog caused by a computer crash on Sunday.

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.