Airport security confiscated an empty water bottle

[Beano]

Same difference, present a car, present you phone to a scanner. one less bit of paper for the environment! In NZ they just swipe your passport, no phone needed.

OOPS! *card

 

[Himeno]

Hopefully its all recycled in the end but in the scheme of things miniscule in terms of the paper waste that is generated - say on airplanes
i would hesitate to think what the $ spend would be if Customs/Quarantine embarked on an upgrade to their systems to digitalise the cards. I fear a repeat of the BOM.

The existing cards go to the ABS for data entry (this is where the inbound traveller data comes from) and the cards archived.

 

[Warks]

First time seeing this thread. I sometimes have a metal insulated water bottle which I take on planes so I have a bottle while travelling that stays cool - very handy in Europe with the fountains everywhere (not that kind of fountain). Wondering if they may see fit to take it, I'd have to protest, not that it would do me any good.
By rights you can take your water bottle on board with 99mL of water in it I assume, but I've never tested it.
I was worried enough about toothpaste when I found that the smallest tube in the shops here is 110g....

 

[Beano]

So which countries require some form of arrival documentation, paper or digital? Will the ETA/ESTA type forms do away with paper because those have to be completed on-line?

 

[Beano]

First time seeing this thread. I sometimes have a metal insulated water bottle which I take on planes so I have a bottle while travelling that stays cool - very handy in Europe with the fountains everywhere (not that kind of fountain). Wondering if they may see fit to take it, I'd have to protest, not that it would do me any good.
By rights you can take your water bottle on board with 99mL of water in it I assume, but I've never tested it.
I was worried enough about toothpaste when I found that the smallest tube in the shops here is 110g....

My experience is that no water at all is allowed in an empty bottle. At first they would even query small bottles full of liquid with no volume measure marked on it! (shop marked, not your vivid!)