New 'space taxis' could be blasting off from Cape Canaveral in Florida as soon as in 2015, according to Boeing.

Flight-deck error, inadequate training and a maintenance slip caused the crash of an Air NZ jet, France's air safety board has determined.

Virgin Blue may abandon trans-Tasman routes after its alliance plans with Air NZ were knocked back by Australia's competition regulator.

The Air Force may come under pressure to restrict drinking hours at its canteens amid concern about its drinking culture.

Annika Kirsten, 23, was one of nine people to die in the skydiving plane crash at Fox Glacier on September 4.

An Australian skydiving instructor with a fear of flying was one of those killed in one of NZ's worst aviation disasters in 17 years.

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.

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.

Travellers between Tauranga and Christchurch, and Invercargill and Wellington, are the big winners in Air New Zealand's latest boost to domestic capacity.

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