
Auckland to Houston flights unveiled by Continental
Direct flights from Auckland to Houston as often as five times a week are being planned from November 2011.
Direct flights from Auckland to Houston as often as five times a week are being planned from November 2011.
Keeping cellphones off during flights will soon be a thing of the past with Air New Zealand set to introduce new aircraft with mobile and internet services later this year.
Air New Zealand is increasing its international capacity by 4.9 per cent and domestic capacity by 3.8 per cent as it starts to see a recovery in air travel.
Claims from travelers disrupted by the Iceland volcano have topped half a million dollars, one of NZ's leading travel insurance companies says.
Air New Zealand climbed from eighth-best in the world last year's to fifth in this year's annual world airline awards.
Over 17.9 million passengers have cast their vote for the world's top airlines in a Skytrax survey.
A plane has successfully landed despite problems with its landing gear that forced it to abort several landing attempts.
Air NZ has taken an unusual approach as it defends itself from claims an alliance with Virgin will mean an inevitable downgrade of its services.
Ruben van Assouw joins a list of more than a dozen known examples of sole survivors from air disasters.
The Netherlands has gone into mourning over the deaths of at least 61 Dutch citizens among the 104 people on a plane that crashed in Libya.
The head of the European Parliament has described the survival of a 10-year-old in a Libyan plane crash that killed over 100 people as "truly a miracle."
Eyjafjallajokull in Iceland has reminded the world again that it has the power to disrupt international travel.
The ash cloud from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokul volcano is still causing havoc for flights across the Atlantic.