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

The vintage-aircraft market was once divided between pilots and aviation museums, but Peter Jackson represents a new breed of collector.

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.

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.

Jetpack maker the Martin Aircraft Company says it has raised $6.5 million in a private capital raising ahead of its planned sharemarket listing.

Boeing will build a new version of its top selling Boeing 737 that squeezes in more seats, with budget airline Ryanair the launch customer.

The widower of a sick woman booted off several flights allegedly because she was too fat has settled his lawsuit with airlines Lufthansa, Delta and KLM.

Passengers on a flight to New Zealand got a scare when a large centipede scuttled up the leg of a first class passenger.

The armed forces look set to increasingly rely on drones to defend New Zealand.

A prominent real estate developer and his wife were aboard an unresponsive private plane which crashed off the east coast of Jamaica on Friday.

Aircraft have flown too close to one another over Auckland 19 times in two years; the figure was disclosed after two incidents in one day.

A pilot aborted a jetliner's takeoff after passengers heard a loud bang on a late night flight.

A plane carrying almost 50 passengers had to return to Auckland shortly after take-off when smoky haze was spotted in the cockpit.

A volcano erupted yesterday in eastern Papua New Guinea, spewing rocks and ash into the air and forcing the evacuation of local communities, seismologists and reports said.

A couple and their extended family will miss a relative's wedding in Fiji after an airline mistakenly offered free airfares.

The Herald has compared the cost of flights, bus and car prices in the North Island after Air NZ faced criticism last week for the price of its regional airfares.

Struggling Australian flag carrier Qantas has posted a huge annual net loss but CEO Alan Joyce insists better days lie ahead.

John Key has spoken to Air NZ about its expensive regional airfares after the government-controlled carrier's profits rose for a third year in a row.

Auckland International Airport's vast Mangere land bank rose in value by $734 million between June 2011 and June 2014.