Oceania

Emirates is introducing a third daily service to Brisbane, Australia from December 2017, complementing the existing two daily services.The direct service, to be operated on a B777-200LR aircraft with …

Danielle Wright tours Victoria’s southwest along the famous Great Ocean Road and shares her top spots for families.The beginning of southwest Victoria’s Great Ocean Road is marked by a tim…

I had a happy childhood in Auckland, in Kohimarama. The yacht club was just down the road and I sailed a P class there and Dad used to take us fishing and sailing in his dinghy. It’s still a gre…

The plane: A Boeing 777-200ER, 14 years old. Venerable workhorse of the SIA fleet. It’s been wearing a track between Christchurch and Singapore for a while and is looking a bit tired inside now.…

Location: Beachfront, in the small township of Kapaa — an easy 10-minute drive from Kauai’s Lihue Airport on the coastal road heading northeast.Check-in experience: A breeze, and straight …

I grew up in Whakatane with my grandparents and it was the best childhood you could imagine. The area we grew up in, Wairaka, had a real strong cultural footprint. Our people have been here for 1000 y…

Long-haul flights can be an exhausting and taxing journey for passengers desperate to reach their destination.The cabin crew must make the same flight, but they are trained to remain professional, sta…

We were on our first run on a pristine, blue-bird day at Cardrona, the day after a massive snow dump late in the season, and my heart was singing.The sun was beaming down from a cloudless sky on slope…

An Australian political party has a controversial plan to boost tourism in North Queensland — hunting crocodiles.Katter’s Australian Party is drafting legislation, expected to be introduce…

Reuniting with family, Jesse Leonard finds his sibling bonds remain strong in Rarotonga’s tropical heat.I shielded my eyes from the sun to get a better look at the ocean; rolling and blue, it wa…