Originally Posted by
theSOD
Why not utilise CHC? Only 3 hotels in Christchurch currently catering to quarantine returnees into NZ. Plenty of empty hotels in the city. Besides the weekly SQ arrival, all are being flown down domestically, why not reduce the pressure on AKL a little?
Probably because “they” can’t agree on who will pay for the domestic flight to CHC (and back?).
I’ve heard through the gossip channels that many of the “kiwis” retuning home are non-English speaking relatives of citizens already here... mostly from India and other Asian countries looking for a COVID-19 shelter and all expenses paid 14 days in a hotel. With more foreign carriers returning to NZ with “citizens” requiring a 14 day Quarantine, the big questions now are how many can we realistically take and who’s going to pay for it?