A pilot who lost his job after an accusation that he sexually harassed a flight attendant has won a legal battle to be reinstated to his former position.

A 700-litre flood of water that forced a Qantas plane to turn back to Los Angeles mid-flight may have been caused by the mops used to clean the aircraft.

Two of the three pilots on an Air France jumbo were sleeping minutes before it plunged into the sea off Brazil, it was revealed yesterday.

As Qantas prepares to put more flights into New Zealand over summer, international sales boss Stephen Thompson is clear about what needs to be done at the airline as it battles through a painful....

Malaysia Airlines says a compensation offer of US$50,000 to the families of MH370 victims is only "part of" the final payment it intends to make.

The widow of Kiwi MH370 victim Paul Weeks has rejected a compensation offer of $64,000 from Malaysia Airlines.

HeliPro employs 70 people to run its 35 helicopters in NZ, Australia and Fiji.

Airbus’ five A350-900 test aircraft took to the skies for an impressive formation flight on September 29 2014. Video supplied by Airbus.

Established as the world's most glamorous plane with top-end carriers such as Dubai-based Emirates, Airbus sees a new niche for the industry's biggest jetliner.

The sonar search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight is about to resume, with a Malaysian ship the first to begin scouring the Indian Ocean for MH370.

Since 9/11, flying has become a tedious ordeal - made even worse if your boarding pass is circled in felt pen.

They chatted over Facebook, he boarded a flight, and then he was gone forever. Now MH17 victim Robert Ayley's wife, Sharlene, has spoken for the first time.

Images show for the first time a dramatic underwater landscape with mountains higher than Mont Blanc and ridges deeper than the Grand Canyon - all 4570m below the surface.

Two people were killed when two small planes collided in western New York at an event to introduce children to aviation.

A former TV reporter who is 30 weeks' pregnant was removed from a domestic flight after failing to provide a medical note saying she was fit to fly.

Airbus Group predicted airlines will buy planes worth $4.6 trillion at list prices over the next 20 years.

A Sydney Airport maintenance worker has been charged with smuggling 100 kilograms of cocaine, hidden in a kite board and golf bag.

A scorpion has been destroyed after being found inside the tent of a traveller coming back into Auckland from Mexico at Auckland Airport.

Jetstar will give a $25 voucher to every domestic passenger whose flight is more than 10 minutes late for the next eight days.

Air New Zealand has sold its cabin interiors and corporate jet fitout business, saying it has "divested at the right time".

Air New Zealand has sold its cabin interiors and corporate jet fitout business to a British-based company for an undisclosed sum.

Rebecca Priestley has got the travel bug - so much that she's been overseas four times this year.

Qatar Airways has taken delivery of its first 517-seat double decker Airbus A380 after a delay of several months.

Malaysia Airlines has lambasted a New Zealander who wrote a book suggesting the pilot of MH370 committed murder-suicide.

More New Zealanders are set to head to the United States with 56,000 more airline seats next year and predictions fares will fall on increasingly competitive routes across the Pacific.

Ancillary revenue on top of airline ticket prices has soared by 1200 per cent in the last seven years.

A $350 million runway extension for Wellington International Airport would provide the capital with between 16 and 33 extra flights a week by 2060.