Next time you're passing through Christchurch International Airport during the hours of darkness keep an eye out for the control tower.

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

Christchurch tourism operators say there is some disruption from the earthquake but most are open for business.

Over the years I've spent a fair bit of time hanging round the world's airports between flights.

Taxes and security levies are keeping the cost of flights to and from Australia at unfairly high levels, according to a travel agent.

Almost $100 would be cut off a return airfare to Australia under one airline's plan to simplify transtasman travel.

Pacific Blue says the pilots of a plane that may have breached flight rules when taking off from Queenstown airport have been stood down.

Qantas is wooing the top end of the travel market with a series of initiatives to minimise queuing at the airport for domestic flights.