Considering neither AU or NZ domestic flights require international security standards, why bother for bubble.
Flights between AU and NZ are treated exactly the same as any other international flight, although the visa requirements are different. Same security, immigration, and bio processing. What they are wanting is a return to the pre-COVID process for the bubble (ie the former business as usual), and still have the much more invasive, resource intensive processing for everyone else. I don't think the plan is to rewrite the book to allow for trans-tasman flights, because as more countries get added to the bubble, you just want the process to expand, not have to be adapted again and again depending on which country it is.
Most airports looked at doing International from Domestic terminals when foreign (and AUS) lockouts decimated the flight numbers, but cost and intransigence from the govt. agencies knocked that on the head. Domestic has recovered to pretty much make that unworkable at most ports now anyway.
Last edited by Traffic_Is_Er_Was; 7th Apr 2021 at 01:49.