Managed Isolation and Quarantine (MIQ), is a business group within the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE). MIQ is an essential part of our border measures to keep COVID-19 out of New Zealand. New Zealand’s borders are currently closed to almost all travellers to help stop the spread of COVID-19.

While our borders are closed, New Zealand citizens and permanent residents have a legal right to come home and many are electing to do so. Every person who arrives in New Zealand must be isolated from the general population for a minimum period of 14 days (336 hours). This measure is key to preventing the transmission of COVID-19 into our communities. This isolation period is facilitated by MIQ, which hosts arrivals in a network of managed isolation and quarantine facilities across New Zealand.

This RFQ concerns MIQ’s ongoing requirement for domestic Air Charter Services to move international arrivals from Auckland International Airport to and from Wellington and Christchurch airports.
MIQ requires Air Charter Services in respect of both turboprop and jet charter flights from Auckland to each of Wellington and Christchurch Airports. There is also an occasional requirement for return flights to repatriate guests to Auckland, preferably to take advantage of repositioning aircraft movements.