Air New Zealand is an international and domestic airline group which provides air passenger and cargo transport services within New Zealand, as well as to and from Australia, the South West Pacific, Asia, North America and the United Kingdom.
Tracing its history back to 1940, Air New Zealand is a member of Star Alliance, a grouping of 27 International airlines offering customers a worldwide network and a smooth integrated travel experience. Overall, Star Alliance offers more than 21,050 daily flights to 1,167 destinations in 181 countries.
Headquartered in Auckland, the airline is currently the only scheduled carrier offering 'round-the-world' service on its own aircraft, through combination of its NZ1/2 and NZ38/39 routes to London via Los Angeles and Hong Kong respectively.