Jetstar

Airports around the country are actively courting Jetstar in the hope it will fly to the regions and increase competition.

Nearly one million Jetstar passengers have travelled through Queenstown Airport out of the five million passengers the airline has flown around New Zealand since it launched domestic services in 2009.

Jetstar is offering domestic flights for one cent each this week as the battle to be the cheapest airline takes off.

A woman who was asked by a Jetstar flight attendant to provide a medical certificate to fly because he wrongly thought she was pregnant says she was "absolutely humiliated" by the mistake.

An extra 37,000 passengers a year will fly directly from Australia to Queenstown in Jetstar's latest expansion of its New Zealand operations.

Cheap airline Jetstar has been fined after changing a Chinese passenger's nationality, which allowed her to board a New Zealand bound plane in Melbourne without a visa.

Passengers will soon be able to watch, read, touch, swipe and pinch on iPads to their heart's content while flying between Queenstown and Australia, Jetstar confirms.

Jetstar is selling limited $7 fares today to promote its new Wellington-to-Queenstown route in a bid to further breach Air New Zealand's hold on the domestic market.

The arrival of Jetstar's inaugural flight to Dunedin yesterday morning, signalled an end to Air New Zealand's domestic monopoly of the route and the beginning of cheaper fares, its chief executive says.

A drunk New Zealand passenger urinated in the aisle of a Jetstar aircraft spraying one man and soaking a woman's scarf but was allowed to leave the flight with nothing more than a warning.

Qantas and subsidiary Jetstar have cancelled all flights in and out of New Zealand for the rest of today and all day tomorrow due to the ash cloud still lingering from a Chilean volcano.