There are no tunnels between NZ and anywhere which can’t be said for Britain where the Channel Tunnel carried >10 million passengers per year in 2019. UK airpor

There are no tunnels between NZ and anywhere which can’t be said for Britain where the Channel Tunnel carried >10 million passengers per year in 2019. UK airports have traffic numbers 7 or 8 times as high as NZ airports. Sea transport and shipping into UK ports is far greater and easier than to NZ. I’m very glad NZ is COVID free but they got lucky by not having much community spread before the first lockdown and closing the border, and they are lucky by geography in this case.