Air New Zealand News

School kids won't dream of careers in temperature and humidity control, shipping, logistics, or making snack foods, but they might if they knew where it could take them.

Flying over the Rocky Mountains in a wooden plane may not be everyone's idea of joy, but an Air New Zealand pilot who has built his own aircraft from scratch is preparing for his flight of a lifetime across the United States.

Facebook's former marketing director Randi Zuckerberg will be sure to stir up some "Likes" when she touches down in New Zealand in July.

Arrowtown book buyer Miranda Spary continues her regular column about her recommendations for a good read, and life as she sees it ... We had a midnight flight to Hong Kong and made the unwise decision to check out the new Botswana Butchery in Auckland.

Airlines are expected to use cheaper fuel to boost profits rather than cut airfares, after a 12 per cent fall in jet-fuel prices.

Air New Zealand's long-haul passenger numbers rose 4.4 percent in April and the airline announced plans to increase capacity between Queenstown and Australian cities by 8 percent this ski-season. The airline carried 1.02 million passengers in April, up 1.8 percent from a year earlier, the company said in a statement.

World-beating energy savings and its positive influence at home and abroad, have won Air New Zealand the Supreme Winner title in the 2012 EECA Awards.

Air New Zealand, which has saved more than $500 million since 2005 through an energy-efficiency drive, was rewarded for its efforts at an event in Auckland last night.

We have probably all been subjected to it at some time - the annoying person talking too loudly on a cellphone, making us an unwilling participant in the conversation.

Air New Zealand Data Centre Programme Completes   Air New Zealand has successfully migrated its full IT footprint to new data centre facilities and is now the only New Zealand corporate to have its production and development systems supported by Tier 3 or above availability across two separate commercially ... (more)

New Zealand Winegrowers has announced today that Wellington will play host to the 2012 Air New Zealand Wine Awards Dinner.

New Zealand organisations that have successfully changed the way they do business were recognised at the recent inaugural Grafton-Art of Change Awards, in Auckland.

Australians who made short-term visits to New Zealand in the past 12 months spent an average of $1500 a person.

Perth route by more than 20%, the company said in a statement. From Sept. 3, ANZ will replace a 234-seat Boeing 767-300 with a 304-seat Boeing 777-200ER on the route, which adds 70 seats on each flight and introduces lie-flat business premier beds and premium economy to the route for the first time.

An Air New Zealand spokeswoman said yesterday it was looking at using Invercargill Airport as an occasional fuelling stop on flights between Queenstown and three Australian cities during winter.

Virgin America offers some of the best in-flight meals, Delta has a great baggage-handling record, andAir New Zealand wins points for its comfy fold-out seats.

An Air New Zealand plane on its way to Wellington has been forced to turn back to Auckland after it encountered a freak electrical storm.

An N.C. State University professor has been honored by New Zealand for helping the island nation during its worst peacetime disaster, recognition that has come after more than 30 years.

Apparently this has been around for 6 months, but I hadn't heard about it: Air New Zealand has a program called OneUp where they will offer select flyers who have purchased long-haul tickets on ANZ's website the opportunity to bid on a one-class upgrade on their next flight.

Even the MC for the evening, TV3 presenter John Campbell, had trouble concealing his amazement that people who sometimes "wear a glove" and "rummage through your smalls" could be New Zealand's third "most attractive" employer.