JULY 30, 2025: New Zealand’s Civil Aviation Authority has welcomed the fining of a man for multiple serious breaches of aviation safety rules, including flying without a pilot licence.

JULY 29, 2025: Hawaii’s Pacific Air Charters has assumed ownership of five propellor aircraft to assuage US Department of Transportation concerns about foreign interests having an outsized influence over the airline’s day-to-day running.

JULY 28, 2025: Air New Zealand is working with OpenAI in a first-of-its-kind collaboration in the country to expand the use of AI across the airline. The airline has already built over 1,500 Custom GPTs to improve internal workflows.

JULY 25, 2025: Qantas has asked Australia’s International Air Services Commission (IASC) to allow China Eastern Airlines to code share on its flights to Santiago (SCL). 

JULY 24, 2025: New Zealand’s Sounds Air will sell its five Pilatus PC12 aircraft and axe its scheduled passenger flights to Christchurch to try to secure the airline’s long-term future.

JULY 23, 2025: The big three US carriers have made some adjustments to their Australia and New Zealand flights over the upcoming 2025/26 Southern Hemisphere summer.

JULY 22, 2025: Tonga's Civil Aviation Division has suspended Lulutai Airlines’ air operator’s certificate, effective July 18, 2025, citing safety reasons.

JULY 18, 2025: PNG Air has quietly released its audited accounts for the 2019 – 2023 financial years after years of delays while restructuring operations and reorganising its financial affairs.

JULY 17, 2025: Ethiopian Airlines is revisiting plans to start flights to Australia, according to Telila Deressa Gutema, the carrier’s regional manager responsible for Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand.

JULY 16, 2025: Armed assailants have attacked men working on the redevelopment of Papua New Guinea’s Gurney Airport (GUR). The attacks occurred last week and targeted foreign employees of China Railway Construction Engineering Group.

JULY 15, 2025: A lending syndicate led by the Bank of New Zealand has placed freight airline Airwork Holdings and associated companies into receivership.

JULY 14, 2025: The first Qantas A321XLR is not due to begin commercial flights until September.

JULY 7, 2025: Air New Zealand’s capacity was down 2.7% in May 2025 compared to May 2024, according to the airline’s May 2025 investor update released late last week.

JULY 4, 2025: Air Marshall Islands and Nauru Airlines have signed a memorandum of understanding aiming to strengthen ties between the carriers, bolster regional aviation resilience, improve connectivity and service quality, and improve sharing of technical and professional capacities.

JULY 3, 2025: Qantas is increasing the number of A330-300s leased from Finnair to three, adding another four leased B737-800s to its fleet, and has ferried in its first A321-200XLR - capping off a busy week of fleet adjustments for Australia’s largest airline.

JULY 2, 2025: The owners of Cairns-based Hinterland Aviation have put the scheduled passenger and charter airline on the market.

JULY 1, 2025: Australian charter airline Skytraders has applied to the US Department of Transportation for authority to start Melbourne (MEL) – Los Angeles Van Nuys (VNY) passenger charter flights in September 2025.