7+ hour, 43+ min ago  (386+ words) Auckland Airport is seeing growing demand on its Southern Link service between China and South America, which was launched in December. China Eastern Airlines' Shanghai to Auckland to Buenos Aires service was doubling to four times a weeks from December…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago  (701+ words) A helicopter crashed near Wellington after a loose fence wire wrapped around the tail rotor, the Civil Aviation Authority has found. Pest control contractors 54-year-old pilot Joseph Keeley and 25-year-old hunter Cole Ritchie died while culling feral goat and deer…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago  (614+ words) By Tim Hepher, Reuters Qantas Airways is set to unveil the first destination for the world's longest non-stop flights from eastern Australia to London or New York, tackling one of the few unbroken barriers of air travel after years of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (766+ words) By Taylor Romine, Davis Winkie and Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN Eight crew members are dead in a B-52 bomber crash shortly after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base, northeast of Los Angeles, on Monday morning (local time), the base said. The B-52 Stratofortress…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (679+ words) Ahead of his Australian tour, the American musician and online personality is reportedly one of six passengers involved in a fatal chopper collision. American musician Oliver Tree, 32, is reportedly among six people who died in a helicopter crash in Brazil....

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (562+ words) By Fran Blandy and Jose Osorio, AFP American alt-pop singer and internet personality Oliver Tree was aboard one of two helicopters that collided mid-air in Brazil, leaving all six people aboard the aircraft dead, a police source told AFP. The…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (644+ words) By Aishwarya Kumar, AFP Families of those killed in last year's Air India plane crash gathered at the site on Friday to mark the anniversary of the disaster, still awaiting answers about its cause. On 12 June, 2025, a Boeing 787 crashed into…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (1349+ words) A pilot has been awarded damages and the right to details he sought about an informant who accused him of drinking before boarding an aircraft. The New Zealand Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has been ordered to pay $19, 000 in damages after…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (415+ words) Fiji's national flag carrier Fiji Airways has announced it will resume its direct connection to New Caledonia starting 22 September. It comes over two years after deadly unrest in New Caledonia, which started mid-May 2024, forced international airlines to suspend their flights…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (773+ words) By Ani Sandu, AFP A Russian drone struck an apartment building in NATO-member Romania early Friday (Romanian time), wounding two people in the latest spillover from the war in Ukraine and prompting strong condemnation from the Atlantic alliance and the…...