Skydive NZ's John Kerr says he's "absolutely devastated and numbed" by the Fox Glacier crash that claimed the lives of more than a third of his staff.

Transport accident investigators are confident they will find "most, if not all", of the reasons for the Fox Glacier plane crash, despite fire causing massive damage to the aircraft.

The deaths of five local men and four overseas tourists makes it one of New Zealand's deadliest plane crashes.

A fiery plane crash that killed nine people in Fox Glacier today happened just metres from the town's chief fire officer's house.

A mid-air explosion forced a Qantas' 747 jetliner carrying 230 people to make an emergency landing.

A Somali woman was today jailed for nine years for New Zealand's only in-flight aircraft hijacking.

Air NZ says uncertainty surrounding the global economic recovery continued to suppress demand for air travel during the past 12 months.

A judge has reserved his decision in the case of a pilot seeking his job back after he was fired for drinking and having sex with a young flight attendant the night before a flight.

A pilot fighting to get his job back after being sacked amid allegations of alcohol and drug abuse worked for Pacific Blue.

The numbers of overseas visitors coming to New Zealand in July was up four per cent on last year bringing visitor arrivals to record levels.

Stuck for a Father's Day present? You surely couldn't go wrong giving Dad his very own Cold War-era jet fighter.

Air New Zealand deals with nearly 4000 people in grief a year, some of whom have shared their tales with the Herald.

In hindsight, airline passengers may well look back on the period between 2007 and 2010 as a golden age for travel in New Zealand.