Air New Zealand will on Friday unveil a sculpture to mark the history of the company - including the 1979 Erebus disaster and a plane crash in Perpignan last year.
Chief executive Rob Fyfe says he will also speak directly about lessons learned from the Erebus tragedy and the way in which the airline interacted with families in the aftermath.
Two hundred and fity seven people died in the country's worst aviation disaster.
Then-chief inspector of air accidents Ron Chippendale laid the blame on the pilot, Captain Jim Collins.
In 1981, a Royal Commission conducted by a High Court judge, Peter Mahon, blamed the changing of coordinates on the aircraft's navigation computer.
Justice Mahon's son, Sam Mahon, says Friday's ceremony should include an apology from the airline to the wife of Captain Collins.
