WATCH: Cathay Pacific lounge boasts fast and slow lanes.

Passengers and cabin crew were left in neck braces with bleeding heads after a flight from Lima to Buenos Aires hit severe turbulence.

New Plymouth has a fairly unremarkable regional airport with two vending machines.

Cathay Pacific will soon be flying its new Airbus A350XWB to New Zealand. Aviation writer Grant Bradley took a look at The Pier - Cathay's luxury Hong Kong lounge.

Be nice to them - these are the gatekeepers of your final refuge before long-haul hell.

Air New Zeland's direct flight to Vietnam extends the airline's total number of international destinations to 30.

Virgin Australia has warned the market of a major announcement regarding Hainan Airlines.

CAA says grounding helicopter fleet was down in the public interest while doubts about the safety of the tourist operation were resolved.

A light plane has crashed in Pukehina, Bay of Plenty. Police said the aircraft hit the ground and rolled.

A light plane has crashed at Raglan Airfield.

The doomed EgyptAir plane that plunged into the Mediterranean last month with the loss of 66 lives was forced three times to turn around after taking off.

Airbus could be squeezing in more seats onto its A380 jets.

Air New Zealand's released the latest in its series of behind the scenes videos. Today - the flight tracking team.

Christchurch Airport is blimmin' enormous, and all shiny and flash.

Where do cabin crew go to unwind and escape demanding flyers?

A man was removed from a Flybe flight at Dublin Airport after a staff member accused him of taking photographs of her behind as the plane was due to take-off.

A Canadian man is urging airlines to "take a good hard look at what they're doing" after he revealed a cramped flight nearly killed him.

Cathay Pacific announced the new aircraft, the F1 racing car of planes, will make long-haul more comfortable.

Young kids got games, colouring books and cheerful blankets early on. The crew, from 11 countries, spoke 13 languages.

Airbus has confirmed it's pitching its new A350XWB to our national airline - and it can fly a very, very long way.

Commercial airline crew have shared their most harrowing experiences - from passenger deaths to close calls - that travellers were never told about.

WATCH: This new Wi-Fi enabled plane should be here within a year.

Air New Zealand will suspend all flights between Whanganui and Auckland, and Blenheim and Christchurch, at the end of July.

Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific is poised to unveil the Airbus A350XWB - and it'll be flying here soon.

Burlesque dancer Maggie McMuffin was told that "she was dressed inappropriately" and would not be allowed to board a JetBlue flight until she covered up.

Rarely seen bargains abound for corporate aircraft as tumbling oil wealth, a stronger dollar and a downturn for emerging-market giants cripple demand.

A plane had to be evacuated after it crashed into a tow truck at Manchester Airport on Saturday.

Alex Hamberger was devastated when he was forced to cancel a trip to see his precious young niece.