Aussie airlines fared well in this year’s awards, but the accolade of top dog (or in this instance, top bird) went to an overseas carrier.

While Travel DAZE 2021 is only weeks away, that hasn’t stopped us from adding several more speakers to the line-up (which is bulging with talent, might we add)!

Thought the already brilliant speaker line-up for Travel DAZE couldn’t get any better? Be proven wrong here with a few more fresh faces.

There’s been some moving and shaking over at Air New Zealand HQ, and we’re not talking about the airline’s intra-office Zumba class.

Kathryn Robertson is going global and heading across the ditch, with a familiar face returning to Air NZ as her replacement.

A Cook Islander has managed to travel to Perth without quarantining, while two travellers from Port Moresby wandered into Brisbane Airport’s common area before testing positive for COVID-19.

It was a day of firsts for Greg Foran last Friday, who popped his international flight cherry with Air NZ and put the new IATA Travel Pass app through its paces.

This agent scored one of only 70 spots on Air NZ’s first flight in a generation between the two cities. Jealous much?

Travel Weekly staff have had similar problems at Friday knock-off drinks, but concede that threatening to blow up a plane is more serious than peeing in a pot plant.

The announcement of quarantine-free travel from Australia to NZ has been met with plenty of positive reactions from all corners of the industry. We’ve gathered just about all of them for your perusal.

The Kiwi carrier has added Tasmania to its repertoire, but there’s a catch.

Qantas is once again moving in on Air New Zealand’s turf, launching new flights between the Australian mainland and Norfolk Island.