Aviation

Service is encouraging more Milford Aerodrome operators to sign up for its commercial weather briefing system to keep it financially viable.

Air New Zealand has dismissed reports one of its aircraft, about to land in Fiji, was on a collision course with another in the same air space as "sensationalist" media coverage.

A tiny New Zealand-based airline, Chathams' Pacific, has been cleared by Tonga's Transport Ministry to resume domestic flights with its two 50-seater Convair aircraft -- but its small planes remain grounded.

Wellington International Airport increased its full year profit, even as the number of passengers using the facility declined.

The Commerce Commission has reached what it calls an important milestone in the setting of a new regulatory regime for airports.

A small plane experiencing trouble with its landing gear has made an emergency landing at Palmerston North International Airport.

Several Air New Zealand flights have been delayed or disrupted as a new cloud of volcanic ash closed London's Heathrow airport.

Totally Tourism lodged an application to appeal its own resource consent to increase the number of flights at a helicopter landing pad at Arthurs Point at an Environment Court hearing held in Queenstown on Friday last week.

Air New Zealand said it has been in talks with Virgin Blue for several months but no agreement has been reached.

Billionaire businessman Michael Erceg flew his executive helicopter -- and the Dutch businessman who was his passenger -- into treetops that he apparently failed to see in time, according to a Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) report released today.

Anyone flying to Australia and the Pacific on Air New Zealand from late this year will have four options of service priced accordingly, with the bottom option challenging budget airlines.

An aircraft pilot is dead after his plane apparently hit an occupied car in Northland this afternoon.

A Gisborne man who was left without essential medication when his luggage went missing on a Pacific Blue flight to Rarotonga says he owes his life to rival airline Air New Zealand.

North Otago pilots have learnt more about flying over mountainous terrain after a Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) seminar held at the North Otago Aero Club on Thursday night.