Virgin Australia slashes 3000 more jobs, no NZ return date
The airline says demand may not come back for three years or more.
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Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic files for bankruptcy protection
The airline wants breathing space to work on a turnaround plan in Britain.
Era of cheap airfares is over predict tourism experts
The business of air travel is 'seriously endangered'
First Tonga repatriation flight takes off from New Zealand
There are a reported 7000 Tongans stranded overseas by pandemic border restrictions.
Hostie flies into rage after walking in on husband's tryst
The Allegiant Airlines employee had reportedly returned home to surprise her husband.
Travel agents' $2b struggle - ministers meet over plea for more help
Struggling agents want help as they work to repatriate what Kiwis have already paid out.
Mystery of Korea's superjumbos on 'flights to nowhere'
Why is the world's largest passenger plane flying completely empty?
How Auckland Airport got busier than Changi and Hong Kong
The Covid-19 crisis has dramatically transformed the order of airport rankings.
Kia ora anō: Air NZ's inflight mag returns to print
A domestic-focused magazine returns to seat pockets across the network.
Emirates to pay passengers' quarantine costs, on one condition
Emirates offers to pay travellers' quarantine costs as destinations impose fees.
Cut in half: Flight Centre NZ loses 600 jobs in Covid crisis
Agents working to repatriate at least $1.5b but running out of time as subsidies go.
Cut off from Oz: Hold on all new Air NZ bookings across the Tasman
The airline says it faces too much disruption caused by border restrictions.
Former A2 Milk boss Jayne Hrdlicka moves back to airlines
Former Jetstar boss heading back to airlines at time of industry's worst financial crisis.
Grant Bradley: The travel heavyweights the Government will struggle to ignore
COMMENT: Most in the sector fit into category of viable but vulnerable worth supporting.
Focus Live: The tough journey ahead for aviation
As Qantas retires it’s last 747 ‘queen of the skies’ NZ Herald aviation writer Grant Bradley reveals what lies ahead for the aviation industry battling the coronavirus fallout. Video / Will Trafford
Tarras International Airport: Pilots welcome plans
Pilots group says new airport would be a good alternative to tricky runways in the south.
Jet Raro swoops on old Virgin route, despite no Cooks air bridge
Although the air bridge is nowhere to be seen, the Cook Islands may gain an airline.
'Clap if you want': Woman booted off flight for not wearing mask
'Just leave, we have flights to get,' woman experiences the fury of fellow passengers.
Air NZ's Mystery Break is hoping to take you away
A mystery tour might be just the ticket to boost Air NZ's domestic network.
Tourism surge: Kiwis out in force during school holidays
Some regions got a boost of more than 50 per cent in domestic tourists on last year.
PDA meets PPE: Passengers' shameful post-covid behaviour
Travel restrictions don't mean air passengers are any better behaved.
Focus Live: Air NZ boss on Covid-19, refunds and the future of the industry
Air NZ Chief Executive Greg Foran warned that many airlines were running out of cash. "My best guess... is that a third of the airlines that we see today will disappear, if this carries on into next year."
Border crunch: Airlines impose new restrictions
An update on stemming the flow of returning Kiwis is expected soon
Air NZ's new credit system: No room for error now
The battered airline has built a new system it hopes will take heat off the credit issue.
New airline eyes Cook Islands airbridge for launch
Real estate and mortgage businessman Mike Pero says he has an airline ready to fly.
The real risk of catching coronavirus when flying
Experts say the flight might not be the most risky part of travel.
Airlines fly in different directions in middle-seat debate
Financial Times: Carriers diverge on social distancing and to run at partial capacity.
Take-off: Where business travel is bouncing back fastest
Kiwi travellers still making business trips overseas and the leisure business is healthy.
Flying's back to 1996: The long wait for global aviation to take off again
Aviation executives pummelled by the pandemic are hopeful of recovery, albeit slow.
'Selfie mask' company makes coverings more personable
A solution to social hygiene that is as idiosyncratic as you are.
Air NZ opens revamped Auckland domestic lounge
The revamped Auckland lounge is part of a programme to improve them around NZ.
Frozen in time: Newspapers from 1966 air crash found in glacier
A mountaineer has uncovered litter on a French glacier with an extraordinary history.
Grounded: Qantas cancels all international flights from Australia until March 2021
Qantas has cancelled flight bookings, except to NZ, until March 2021.
Flying into the sunset - Covid seals fate of 'Queen of the Skies'
Jumbos doing the heavy lifting during pandemic but passenger models being phased out.