Originally Posted by
Anti Skid On
New Zealand has a cap on numbers, because the last thing any Covid free country wants is masses of people arriving and infecting everyone. The UK press are reporting that ALL passenger traffic into the UK will be stopped till the 15th Feb, and also that they seriously F'ed up by NOT mandating quarantine.
NZ has a booking system for your place in quarantine. It’s up to the traveller to ensure they have a booking first, then they can get on ANY flight available to get them to NZ.
This is a massive difference to the AUS system where the government “palms off” the decisions to the airlines. Also means if your specific airline makes a schedule change, you can’t just rebook a new flight with another airline that’ll probably still arrive on the same day.
Originally Posted by
Anti Skid On
There is a financial reason for those arrivals. The organisers of the tournaments are footing the bills for quarantine, testing, security, etc. not any tax payers. Similarly they are bringing in services (poor tennis pun, not intended).The same applies for lots of other groups - cricketers, film production crews, the mega-rich who've fled to see the America's Cup
So that justifies screwing over your own citizens?? As others have mentioned arrivals pay for the flights, they pay for the quarantine. And then after all this they still get blamed for...
“not coming home in March”
Citizens first, that’s the entire point of government. To serve the people that put them in power. That includes Australians stuck on the “wrong” side of the international border. Citizenship doesn’t end when you step off Australian soil