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Jetstar's plan to change tarnished image

Budget airline Jetstar is working on an image change, with the airlinesaying it will modify its pitch beyond just price.

US military drones use NZ airspace

The United States has flown highly sophisticated Global Hawk drones through New Zealand airspace, official papers reveal.

Epic solar flight family's latest adventure

Some might say Bertrand Piccard has adventurer in his genes. His father, Jacques, was one of the first people to explore the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the world's oceans.

Cost-cutting Singapore to keep NZ links

Singapore Airlines is cutting some routes and continues to trim costs but says it remains committed to New Zealand.

Drones: The secrets in our skies

Authorities are to take urgent action to monitor rapidly increasing drone activity after conceding they know of as few as one in 10 unmanned flights.

Air Pacific A330 makes first NZ flight

Pacific Blue pilot's job in the balance

The Pacific Blue pilot convicted of a careless Queenstown takeoff is to meet his employer next week to discuss his flying future.

Flight training inquiry finds need for better records

The Civil Aviation Authority has been told it needs to keep better records on flight training incidents after an investigation found insufficient evidence to link an increase in fatalities to a decline in training safety.

Editorial: Trust in pilots warranted only if they obey the rules

Editorial: All airlines should dwell on Judge Phillips' concerns about the pressure on pilots. Safety rules are not there to be bent at a whim. Trust in airline pilots will soon dwindle if they are.

Daytripper: Up where they belong

Alexia Santamaria joins Mt Maunganui's magnificent men in their flying machines.

Peter Calder: How to beat that fear of flying

I've only once felt a fear of flying. We were four passengers and a pilot in an ageing Britten-Norman Islander.

Aviation chief lives dream

The Hawaiian Airlines president and chief executive's love of aviation developed as a child frequently flying across the Atlantic from the United States to Britain.

Air Pacific's first A330 touches down in Fiji

Air Pacific's first new Airbus A330 touched down on home soil today carrying the refreshed 'Fiji Airways' branding.

Atlantic flight's nightmare landing

We were going to have "a perfectly normal landing", assured the pilot of Lufthansa flight 499 from Mexico City to Frankfurt, as he prepared his wary passengers for an emergency landing in the Azores.

Passengers unaware of flight emergency

Passengers on board remained blissfully unaware as emergency services rushed to the runway at Auckland International Airport after a Thai Airways flight blew a tyre.

Jack Tame: High-flyers win the right to bear small arms

After 13 years of deliberation and debate, the much-loved Transport Safety Administration will allow airline passengers to carry small pocket knives on planes for the first time.

Cathay Pacific optimistic over NZ

A top ranking Cathay Pacific executive is upbeat about the airline's New Zealand route and its global strategy despite flying into a rough financial patch in the first half of the year.

Dead pilot 'loved his work'

The pilot of a helicopter which crashed in a remote valley near Turangi had been flying for only a couple of years but was "not green", his brother says.