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Air New Zealand latest to jump on TikTok travel bandwagon
The airline is the latest company to follow travellers on to the platform.

Airline's adverts banned for ‘Greenwashing’ in landmark ruling
Europe’s second largest airline has landed in hot water over its green credentials.

Kaikōura helicopter tragedy: Pilot dad's inexperience blamed for horror crash
Final crash report released into crash that killed Andrew Hamish Davidson and Li Chen.

Grand plan at Qantas: What’s ahead of Cam Wallace across the Tasman
The former top Air NZ exec will take a wealth of insight with him.

Stock Takes podcast: Why the travel boom is different this time
Why the golden age of travel is back but not as it was before.

Woman beats British Airways in court using 80-year-old legislation
After a two-year battle, the airline had to pay almost $5000.

Pilots’ northern lights detour delights passengers
Passenger planes have been making unscheduled loops over Europe this week, hunting aurora.

Watch: Traveller reveals how to get a free row of seats on a flight - but there's a catch
The epic trick could win you a free row but there is a caveat.

Cam Wallace: ‘It’s an honour to be joining Qantas’
New job will pit him against former colleagues at Air NZ.

Woman justifies confronting mother and child on plane
A woman has had a pang of conscience after confronting a mother's 'badly behaved' child.

Five dead, including patient, in medical flight crash in Nevada
Five die after light plane crash in Nevada.

Straight man accidentally books seat on WorldPride flight to Sydney
Heterosexual man mistakenly booked seat on WorldPride flight to Sydney but liked flight.

'No pulse': Flight attendant, 24, dies on tarmac moments after flight landed
The flight attendant who 'loved her job' died suddenly on arrival to an airport.

Qantas unveils 'flying hotel rooms' going to New York on Project Sunrise
The airline unveiled flying boutique hotel rooms. With wardrobes, beds and recliners.

Business class passenger served single banana for breakfast
On the bright side, the passenger said it was “one of the best” they'd eaten in a while.

Greg Foran: Air NZ not price gouging but enjoying 'tailwinds'
Airline boss says return to profit 'a good start'.

Auckland Airport working with insurers on flood claim, faces $500,000 excess
Floods in January suspended both international and domestic flights.

Air NZ takes delivery of 'factory fresh' A321neo to revamp domestic network
After a long wait, Air New Zealand’s extra-long A321neo has touched down in Auckland.

Back in the black: Air New Zealand’s $299m half-year profit
The result is a spectacular turnaround on last year's $367 underlying loss.

Queenstown airport paying record dividend, airline serving NZ makes record profit
Good times roll in balance sheets of aviation businesses.

Serious concerns over safety item regularly taken from aircraft
Airlines have seen an alarming rise in these items walking off planes.

Traveller uses ChatGPT to write ‘passively aggressive’ complaint to airline
'I am writing to express my extreme frustration and disappointment,' the AI chatbot wrote.

Private jumbo jet scrapped after just 30 hours in the air
Parts from the luxury jet liner have a future flying parcels rather than Saudi royals.

Air New Zealand discount fares for Gisborne and Napier flights extended
Fares to and from these destinations will be reduced for the rest of February.

Aerial photos show scale of disaster in Gisborne
Civil Defence is running fly-overs of Tairāwhiti to assess the cyclone damage.

China's brazen balloon move sparks diplomatic firestorm, but what does it mean?
Strategic analysts are struggling to come to grips with what China's incursion means.

Bizarre hobby group twist in ‘UFO’ downing
A case of mistaken identity may have caused a hobby balloon group to be caught in drama.

Air NZ passenger 'boiling with anger' after 16-hour flight to nowhere
The affected passengers have all been rebooked on flights, the airline says.