The Kiwi carrier has gone into a trading halt as it assesses the impact of coronavirus while Qantas and Virgin suffered heavy share price falls.
Flight Centre's boss has lashed out at Canberra's response to the pandemic after his business was forced to close up to 100 stores and scrap its earnings guidance.
Air New Zealand has reported a 33 per cent slide in profit on the back of slower demand,a weak cargo market,one-off costs and civil unrest in Hong Kong.
The airline will turn one of its aircraft into a flying environmental monitor,with the data to be used to predict severe weather events and inform climate change research.
Coronavirus has inflicted its first big hit on Australian markets and the government has not ruled out further travel restrictions.
Air New Zealand has followed Qantas in drastically slashing flights to Asia and across the Tasman as it prepares to take a financial hit of up to $NZ75 million ($72 million) from the coronavirus crisis.
Australian families stuck in Wuhan are becoming increasingly desperate as their evacuation window closes.
The people in quarantine at Christmas Island detention centre can't get out,but the Indian Ocean outpost's famous crabs can still get in.
A second Qantas flight is set to arrive in Wuhan on Friday to rescue hundreds more Australian residents caught up in the coronavirus outbreak.
As Christmas Island fills up with plane-loads of Australians the federal government is considering re-opening isolated mining camps to quarantine families.
He said the government may not be able to rescue them if they become stranded in a growing coronavirus lockdown.