Royal Caribbean brings in some of the biggest ships in the world to New Zealand ports.

Delta Air Lines is offering customers the opportunity to flag their commercial flight and instead board a private jet.

Macquarie says Jetstar will have a big fight on its hands to make money from its planned new regional operations.

It's not all sweetness and light, but Air NZ's new industrial relations strategy is replacing decades of distrust, reports Grant Bradley.

Sarah Arkin is director of Simply Perfect Weddings and the president of the Queenstown Wedding Association.

It's being touted as the answer to all our prayers for more leg room, but Gizmodo calls this "the most atrocious aeroplane seating design you’ve ever seen."

Grant Bradley flies on Virgin Australia VA30 from Abu Dhabi to Sydney.

Queenstown Airport has been forced to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on patching its runway after damage by heavy aircraft.

Norris Carter is Auckland Airport's general manager of aeronautical and commercial and joined the company in November 2103.

Qantas and American Airlines have been granted an okay to introduce more services between Australia and the US.

Air NZ is the sole voice protesting against Qantas and American Airlines' application for a co-ordinated increase in flights.

A Kiwi-built, human-powered submarine has made a splash in an international race, falling just a knot short of a new world record.

The US Export-Import Bank is set to expire, eliminating finance for aircraft orders from Boeing's overseas customers.

China Eastern Airlines has plans to build up to daily services on its Auckland-Shanghai service.

Flight Centre says it has been contacted by Kiwis customers worried about access to cash while holidaying in Greece.

China Eastern says it'll soon start flying between Auckland and Shanghai year-round - and travellers are the winners.

A sagging New Zealand dollar will provide an extra boost to the tourism industry, still glowing from a record summer season.

Cathay Pacific's new boss in New Zealand is 25-year veteran Mark Pirihi. He started in a sales job when the airline ran just two services a week between Auckland and Hong Kong.

European aerospace giant Airbus is believed to be in the running to buy Air New Zealand's Safe Air engineering subsidiary.

Airline travel is the fastest growing source of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Air New Zealand will broaden the range of wine in premium cabins as it pushes back on claims it is being stingy in economy.

Boeing forecasts demand for 38,050 new planes during the next 20 years, worth close to NZ$8 trillion.

Boeing found room to shoehorn in as many as 14 more seats on its 777 by shrinking the lavatories.

Air NZ has appointed two leading international wine judges and commentators to help select the one million bottles of wine its passengers drink annually.

Boeing is considering the largest-ever narrow-body jetliner to fill a void left when production of the 757 model ended.

Global airlines buoyed by a record profit forecast are also grappling with how to mend a rift between US and Gulf carriers.

A world airline group has agreed what the proper size of a carry-on bag should be - so everyone can bring one aboard.

Qantas and American Airlines have announced a significant expansion of flying across the Pacific - opening up the possibility of new flights.