Emirates will resume passenger flights to Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane a week after announcing it was suspending the routes.

Qantas is set to forge ahead with making 2,000 ground handling positions redundant before a crucial court challenge to the decision.    

A passenger’s leg was forced out of the door of a Bell 206 and become trapped under the helicopter as it spun near a Torres Strait helipad.

Air New Zealand today restarted commercial flights from Rarotonga, on the Cook Islands, to Auckland following a new travel bubble opening.