China Southern is expanding into Christchurch with direct services to Guangzhou three times a week using a Dreamliner.

Air NZ boss says Jetstar's entry into the regional market was payback for his airline's foray into Australia.

The airline's CEO says to expect a slew of cheap flights off the back of the company's record $496 million profit.

An app will allow travellers to check in, receive flight information, order coffees and enter flight lounges using their Apple watch.

Auckland Airport chief executive Adrian Littlewood says the arrival of Jetstar on to regional routes will be a welcome boost for his company and passengers nationwide.

Melbourne-born Gai Tyrrell always wanted to get into the travel industry after leaving school.

The days of big jets taking a short cut on the traditional track to Auckland Airport from Australia will end next month.

Auckland Airport, New Zealand's biggest by market capitalisation, says global instability is tempering its outlook.

Air New Zealand has fired some heavy shots in what's shaping up as an intense regional air fare war.

New Zealand has cracked a milestone, with a record-breaking 3,002,982 visitors for the year to July.

Dramatic footage captures the moment direct lightning strikes a Delta Airlines plane about to take off in Atlanta.

Qantas has turned around a massive loss to report its biggest profit since before the global financial crisis.

Qantas today reported an annual profit of A$557 million, from a loss of A$2.8 billion the previous year.

Flyers are enthusiastic about more regional competition and almost 70% of them have driven to other cities to get cheaper fares, according to a survey.

Airbus has appointed Iain Grant to replace Isabelle Floret as vice president for the Pacific.

Qantas has joined rival Virgin Australia in adding more flights to New Zealand over summer.

The airline said its extra services would include between Melbourne and Christchurch and Brisbane and Auckland.

Two of Auckland Airport's highest ranking execs are leaving the company after a strategic review, which included pay levels.

American Airlines and Qantas say their expanded alliance across the Pacific will directly benefit New Zealand passengers and they expect more competitive air fares across the Pacific.

Aviation experts have expressed bafflement at the cause of the plane crash in which three members of the Bin Laden family and their Jordanian pilot were killed.

Malaysian officials said they are finally close to "solving the mystery" of MH370.

Authorities are increasingly confident the plane wreckage found on an Indian Ocean island is from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Four people, including Bin Laden's stepmother and sister according to reports, have been killed when a private jet owned by Osama Bin Laden's family crashed.

Investigators examining a piece of debris suspected to belong to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have been forced to flee the site.

Beach cleaner Johnny Begue Googled "plane disasters" after finding "a weird thing on the shore".

The Dreamliner has been scheduled to fly Melbourne-Auckland and Auckland-Sydney every Monday for seven weeks.

Few mysteries have inspired such heated debate as the disappearance of Malaysian airliner MH370, its 12 crew and 227 passengers.

Aviation expert Xavier Tytelman's post on the washed-up wreckage has offered new clues at to what happened to Mh370.

More than 1300 at-risk or ineligible passengers flew to New Zealand in the past financial year, Immigration New Zealand figures reveal.