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Maori heritage helps China Southern exec

Blair Haeata says his Maori heritage has helped him fit into marketing roles at a number of Chinese businesses, including his latest job at China Southern Airlines.

Calls for overhaul of medical secrecy

In a country where Nazi and communist persecution and eavesdropping have left deep scars, data secrecy has cast-iron legal protection in Germany.

Qantas treading on toes with ban

"Feels like home" may be Qantas' latest advertising slogan, but it doesn't apply to the airline's lounges, where a "smart-casual" dress code means a ban on jandals.

Bayleys links up with Airpoints programme

Real estate firm Bayleys yesterday joined Air New Zealand's Airpoints programme and the airline is on the lookout for more partners.

Lubitz researched suicide, cockpit door

Andreas Lubitz had searched online for suicide methods and cockpit doors before he crashed a Germanwings flight into a mountain, prosecutors say.

Lufthansa knew Lubitz had depression

Lufthansa has admitted for the first time that it knew Andreas Lubitz suffered from serious depression.

Pilot warned of cockpit risk

A Dutch pilot issued a chilling warning of the risks of being locked out of the cockpit weeks before the Germanwings crash.

Air NZ? No, Air Auckland

Air New Zealand is facing a backlash in Christchurch after announcing it was canning summer flights to Japan.

Air links to China grow

Air China proposes direct flights to Beijing

Chinese business spreading its wings

As China's economy has rapidly expanded over the past couple of decades, the Asian superpower's commercial giants have spread their wings and gone out into the world.

Delta says Gulf carriers receiving tens of billions in subsidies

Organ transplant child barred

Ryanair refused to fly a sick child to an organ transplant operation because the boy's family arrived at their departure airport "too close to the departure time", it has been revealed.

Long flight ahead for fare-fixing action

Class action against Air New Zealand and other airlines accused of price-fixing on flights across the Pacific could stretch on for two more years.

Cathay Pacific eyeing premium market

Cathay Pacific plans to fly the latest widebody plane from Hong Kong to Auckland later next year.

Tech firm on track for $150m revenue

Airport logistics and baggage handling company BSC Group is on track to hit $150 million of revenue for the financial year and is aiming to become a billion-dollar software company, says chief executive Patrick Teo.