Wellington, Aug 12 NZPA - The New Zealand sharemarket dived today as fear gripped global markets, and further bad news from Allied Farmers and a bleak outlook statement from Steel and Tube added to investors' woes.

Wellington, July 27 NZPA - Australian pilots were today taking their national airline Qantas to the employment court over allegations that a New Zealand airline is simply a subsidiary set up overseas in a bid to reduce wages.

Wellington, July 22 NZPA - The proposed acquisition of private integrated travel company Stella Travel Services, which has considerable operations in New Zealand, may raise competition concerns, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) says.

Wellington, July 16 NZPA - Air New Zealand advised the stock exchange it had not bought any shares in airline Virgin Blue but its statement, made in response to media reports, did not rule out such a move.

Wellington, July 14 NZPA - A week after Auckland International Airport Ltd purchased a quarter stake in Queenstown Airport Corp, it is welcoming new flights to Queenstown from Melbourne and the Gold Coast by Jetstar, the budget airline owned by Qantas.

Wellington, July 2 NZPA - The Wellington Employers' Chamber of Commerce is asking Transport Minister Steven Joyce to reject the application by Air New Zealand Ltd and Virgin Blue Group to merge their trans-Tasman services.

Wellington, June 23 NZPA - Auckland Airport experienced a 7.1 percent increase in domestic passenger numbers in May compared to a year ago.

Wellington, June 4 NZPA - Australian airline Qantas is increasing services to Queenstown over the peak summer period and during the upcoming ski season.

Sydney, May 22 NZPA - The Australian and International Pilots Association (AIPA) is taking legal action in a bid to force Qantas to pay pilots employed by its New Zealand-based subsidiary the higher wages paid to their Australian counterparts.

Wellington, May 21 NZPA - Air New Zealand has jumped past Qantas at the annual world airline awards. Air New Zealand climbed from eighth-best in the world at last year's awards to fifth for 2010, and was also named best Australia-Pacific airline in Hamburg, Germany.